My wife received a call from this number 210-374-8093 claiming to be DEA. Beware it is a scam and contact your local police. This idiot needs to be caught.
called claiming to b dea agent and i was to arrested 4 helping to smuggle contraban from out of the country and i would be arrested if i did not pay fine of $2800.00. I called from another number with another name he claimed the same thing only this time the fee was $3800.00 or i would be extradited to California. Kept calling finally had his number blocked. Wanted to charge fine to my credit card account!
called claiming to be DEA Chief of Operations and I was going to be arrested for buying a legal product from an online pharmacy if I not send $1320 to Dominican Republic. Called from 208-968-0571. This must be a new number for the scam. Watch out!!
I also received a call from a man claiming to be Officer Thomas Harrigan of the DEA and the number he used is 949 468-5107. Asked me to wire money to the dominican republic to a person by the name of Arelis Pichardo...supposedly the DA in the Domincan Republic handling a criminal case re: online pharmacies. I was threatened with jail time and DEA agents showing up at my door if I did not wire money via Western Union. I cannot verify if this information is true but I just found this blog on the Internet and wanted to give you all the infomation I was given. I believe this is a scam... The court case he's referring to is supposedly under Judge Lawrence Tate O'Neil (sp?) in the San Francisco area.
THIS IS A SCAM. Scammers pretend to be law enforcement (police, sheriff, Feds, AG's Office, fake cop agencies with made-up names) and using bought/hacked loan application data to extort money for fictitious crimes or your personal ID.
The real DEA warns about fake-DEA extortion scams here http://www.justice.gov/dea/pubs/states/newsrel/2010/denver111010.html
The real FBI warns about payday loan extortion scams here http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/paydayloanscam_120710
The real FDA warns about fake-FDA extortion scams here http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/2009/ucm195814.htm
The real FDIC warns about fake-FDIC extortion scams here http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/specialalert/2010/sa10131.html
Report to 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.
I got the same call today, saying that I needed to wire money via Western Union and he wanted to stay on the phone with me until I completed the transaction. What a douche, he got an earful out of me.