These individuals have been calling the last few days. Definately a scam as they said they were part of law firm, yadda yadda yadda. One female with a heavy middle eastern accent. One male with a heavy middle eastern accent. I have contacted the FTC, FCC, and FBI on these guys. They also use number 760-221-8485.
I just got a call from 444-198 on Mon 10/18/2010. The guy did not hardly speak any English. He left a call back number 619-309-4469 (I could not recognize the name) saying it was important information that I pass along to a friend.
I recieved calls this morning and the caller ID was 444-198. I called my phone company to try to block this caller and they could not because it was not a full number. When talking to the people calling it was a man with a very heavy accent that I could barely understand. I ask for a call back number and they kept asking if I was ****** ******* I kept asking for a call back number to no avail so I told them I was going to report them over and over and hung up. This number called me at 9:58 am, 9:59 am, 10:00 am, 10:53 am, 11:21 am, 11:21 am, 11:23 am, 11:36 am & 11:39 am. It is now 12:43 pm and I am hoping that me telling them that I am going to report them will make them stop. He was very rude and would not give me any information about who was calling or give me any contact information at all.
Just got a call from 414-198. I'm am out at my dad's house visiting him. The call came through on my phone, I didn't pick it up because I do not answer calls from incomplete phone numbers and numbers I don't know in general. The person left a VM. He claimed his name was Steve. And that I was going to be in velly velly big trouble and am investigated for fraud. I had to laugh when I was listening to the voicemail. I quickly deleted it and pegged it for a scam (as far as I know the one bill I actually do have in collections is set up to get paid off tomorrow, and that was for a whopping $250 and that's only because I couldn't pay a dental bill off fast enough lol). Then, they called my dad's phone, I immediately picked it up and hung up on them. They called back right after I hung up (in the mean time I had actually found this thread) and I answered my dad's phone and said "Listen a**hole, I don't owe you any money and I've called the cops on you so you best not call again or YOU will be in very big trouble". Not sure I really will report it but, it's annoying people can get away with something like this.
Got another call today, this time from American Legal Claims in which a "legal claim will be downloaded against me in my local country". This guy is funny, and today I talked to him, asked him where the "debt" originated from and I would gladly pay said company directly, he didn't have that information he was just the collector. I told him I've worked for a collections agency in the past and have ALWAYS known where the original debt started. He hung up on me ha!
These individuals have been calling the last few days. Definately a scam as they said they were part of law firm, yadda yadda yadda. One female with a heavy middle eastern accent. One male with a heavy middle eastern accent. I have contacted the FTC, FCC, and FBI on these guys. They also use number 760-221-8485.