This is a scam. It is kind of like the Nigeria phone scams that happened a few years ago. From my research, these are folks from outside the US using leaked information from payday loan applications. They have called me and several other people from my company stating that people have committed bank fraud.
Please be aware that they are calling from various numbers and more than likely using something like Google Voice to change their numbers frequently. The other numbers they may call from are impossible to list (there are far too many). If they are calling your company, I suggest you do what I've done and contact someone from Corporate Security and/or at the very least your HR person.
Obviously, these folks do not understand the American legal system and are just trying to use scare tactics to get a return call and some money. You cannot be arrested for not paying back debt, but also in order to be charged with "bank fraud" as they are calling it, they must show intent for you to write a bad check. I spoke to this person and he stated that I had accepted money from a "payday loan company run by the government as part of an investigation" and when they tried to "take back the money" there were insufficient funds. I will admit that I have gotten payday loans, but I have records of all the companies being paid back early. Also, even if this were real, it would still be illegal because the gov't setting up shell company to "catch" people in this manner would probably be entrapment.
Anyway, my advice is to ignore the calls, do not call them back b/c you could be charged incredible amounts of money per minute and report them and every number they have used.
I recieved a call from this number today that said for me or my attorney of record to call back. It was pretty threatening but never said who it was that was calling or what it was about. I tried to call the number it gave back but no one answered. Anyone know who this is?
Nobody's going to call your house and tell you that if someone in your household doesn't call back immediately that they'll be arrested tomorrow. If someone's going to be arrested, the police come and do it themselves without calling you first and giving you a day's warning to escape.
First hint that you're being scammed. I'd say, call back, say you're your husband, do NOT give any personal information beyond first and last name. See what they've got on you.
This is definitely a scam because it's illegal to threaten arrest over civil debt. Debt is handled in civil and not criminal court. The Better Business Bureau has released many alerts on this scam, google "bbb.org alert phony debt collector" Scams mutate so read all the alerts to get a flavor of what they are. File complaints with the Internet Crime Complaint Center http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx , the Federal Communications Commission http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm , the Federal Trade Commission https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/ and your state AG, as appropriate.