Mark Thomas was the DEA agent that called me. THe same Brooklyn/Spanish accent combination. Same thing, bought pills that didn't work in 2007 and now I must in 1 hour get down to the federal court house and pay 1800$ or I could possibly be sent to stand in court for charges in the Dominican republic. When I asked for documents, "we have to wait until they send us the papers, we'll send them to u, and on and on. I said you're joking right? They said.the feds would be.at my job to arrest me when I told them I.wasn't paying anything. Their "front desk" DEA location was California as well. 3.20.2012
I have received a voice mail message from this phone number yesterday. Claimed to be DEA agent Chris Delgado with District 97. Said he was calling in regards to 3 felony charges pending against me due to ordering medication online overseas. I called him back as he truly sounded legit on the voice mail. He told me they had seized medication I had ordered online overseas from 2009 from an address I have not lived at in 6 years. He said he had all kinds of evidence against me (even though I had never done this) and I almost believed him until he told me that I could hire a federal lawyer and fight the charges, or I could have the charges dropped by directly sending a judge in the Dominican Republic money via Western Union. Claimed I had $5,000 of charges against me but he would settle for $200. That's when I knew he was full of BS. I told him I would have to call him back, and he did not want me to hang up because he thought he had me, and said that we HAD to settle this today or I would be receiving a subpeona at my door the next day. I told him I would call him back. I went straight to my computer to search his name and found tons of things in this website with his name and different phone numbers. So I called him back today from a different phone number and talked with someone who said Mr. Delgado was not in (it was DEFINITELY the same guy I talked to) and gave me a different name of who he was. I gave him a fictitious name and address, and got the same BS story. I think he had my real name from some marketing list because the first time I talked to him, he matched my name up by just giving my phone number. This time with the fake name, he still told me the same story even though he could not locate me by the phone number I was using. They have some kind of caller ID because he read my number to me. This time I told him I wasn't sure what number he called me at as I have several numbers all going to one voice mail (because I knew my sons number would not be on his list). After he gave me the same story anyway about getting a subpeona, blah blah, blah, I told him I wanted my lawyer to call him back and he said if I did that, that is saying you are guilty and that this is an undercover operation that the local police, local DEA, and the FBI would know nothing about so there was no use to call him. I told him that was stupid about saying I am guilty if I have my lawyer call back and I hope he didn't think I was that ignorant. He then told me since I had a smart mouth, they would not allow me to pay a fine and that I would be going to court. He then hung up on me. Unfortunately I've seen some folks on here fall for the scam, and I feel really bad for them. I don't see how these people can live with themselves.
I got a call today from Detective Chris Delgado DEA agent stating that we had purchased illegal drugs through the mail in 2009 and that we could spend up to 3 years in Federal Prison. I told him that he did not know us and we did not know him. He needed to send us something through the mail. He hung up immediately.