I also have received a pre recorded message from this number, with no call back number, and no name of anyone to speak with. The people whom I have spoken with, are VERY rude, and speak very broken english, which requires me to ask them to repeat themselves often, and twice they cussed me out ( in plain english, suprisingly enough) and hung up on me. I am pretty sure that they can't issue warrants and have you thrown in jail for not paying a debt they say you owe, without any evidence. If that was the case, the majority of this country would be incarcerated.
This is a scam. They buy old lists and then try to collect on those debts on the lists. I had a payday loan in 2008. I paid it off and retained proof that I paid it. Yet, this debt is on a list somewhere that has been sold over and over again. About every 6-12 months I get a call from people like this. They threaten to have you arrested, which they can't. They refuse to provide proof, saying they aren't required to by law (which they are).
I demanded to know the mailing address and company name. They said it was Rapid Recovery Services. Now, this is a real company in Illinois. They tried to scare me into saying sending my proof by mail would take to long. I told them that I am entitled to due process and that includes them providing proof of the debt. She disagreed and went on the attack.
I asked why they were calling me from TN if they are in IL and she said that is the corporate office. So I googled the company name and found that they are real, but with a different address than the woman gave me. The address she provided is for a UPS Store in a town 70 miles away from the real company. They didn't do their homework though...because the company name they used notes right on their website that they are not licensed to do business in my home state! I emailed the actual company and told them about the people using their company name. It will be interesting to see if they respond since their website states they strictly follow all state and federal collection laws.
One time, I was in a mood so I called back the company at the time.....repeatedly. They answered and I asked for proof. They again said they don't have to send any. For about 2 hours one evening, I had my cell on speaker and just kept redialing them and demanding proof. Over and over and over. Finally, they answered the phone this way: "Terry, PLEASE stop calling us." That company never called me again.
Another company called on the same paid debt and said they were from a law firm out of Georgia. Again, they grabbed the name of a legit company and used it as their own. The attorney name they had given me had only 2 attorneys on the state bar under that name. One was dead and the other was disbarred. When I mentioned this to them, they hung up and I never heard from them again.
At some point, the statute of limitations will kick in and I can simpify my responses. The key here is do your homework on them and throw it back at them. There is nothing they can do.
Arrest warrants are only given out in criminal cases only by a judge and only on application by duly constituted law enforcement people. Debt collectors cannot get arrest warrants, period. Civil debts are civil. No crime involved. The criminal justice system is not involved. We don't have debtors prisons in the US and haven't since the Civil War. These kitchen-table debt scammers are always throwing around worthless legal terms from the criminal justice system to scare people into paying them something. Total scam.