The "good luck as this situation unfolds" line and the vanilla-sounding alias names for the reps strongly suggest a South Asian fake debt collector. If you really want to know how they've found you and Gramma and the neighbor's pet ferret, think back to when you or someone related gave away a pile of sensitive data to strangers through an online application form.
To be clear, this is extortion dressed as debt collection. The agents' horrid threats are empty and their conduct is illegal. As early as possible it's critical to determine if your collector is domestic or yet another South Asian faker. The former you can sue into submission; the latter tend to be out of reach.
My notes from October 2011 on payday loan and "hot check" collectors are linked below.
http://800notes.com/forum/ta-429fb24ec2162e3/ ... -numbers-here-2
See also this FTC alert: "Fake Debt Collectors"
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0258-fake-debt-collectors
(former title: ''Who's Calling? That Debt Collector Could Be a Fake'')
The following will be useful if you have a US domestic collector calling, and will in general help you sniff out the frauds:
official FTC guidance and staff opinions on the FDCPA, PDF copy of the Act
http://www.ftc.gov/os/statutes/fdcpajump.shtm
CFPB Q&A on debt collection practices
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/askcfpb/search ... bt%20Collection
i've been getting the same call from my cell phone. we should ALL CALL THIS GUY OR GAL ALL DAY LONG!!!!!!
I'VE BEEN DOING IT. MY TURN TO HARASS THEM!!! GETTING TIRED OF THIS B.S.
415-952-5630, 214-547-7643, 401-648-7436, ALL THE SAME PERSON. BLOCK UR NUMBER AND CALL AND IF NO ANSWER LEAVE A MESSAGE
How can i stop these calls? they call everyday and they keep threatening me with jail time. Also they called my grandmas house and left message there stating i had a warrant and i havent stayed there for 10 years. where do they get this info. WHAT CAN I DO?
got exact same call today at work-"David" told me to call "Roy King" about "financial fraud charges" against me. I just took the number, which was the same number on the caller ID that David was calling from and said bye. IF he calls back asking for my attorney information again, I'm going to tell him "I AM an attorney!" and see if they'll quit calling.
Got a call today tilling me I was being sowed and thy we going to put a wount out for me and I was going to jail his name was Roy king got to thinking who's sowing me he whoud not till me told me to go to Walmart buy a green dot money card put 490.65 on it hell no no no till me why he hong up on me so I goggle Roy king green dot scams and found this list thy called me from a different number it was 1-202-656-0317. !!!!!!!! Thank you everyone for this
I was getting about 9 to 10 calls a day from these people my boyfriend just got off the phone with them. My boyfriend asked them what their and their mothers address was. lol. My boyfriend wasnt too kind on the reasoning for asking what their address was. Dont think there is anything you can realy do but joke about it