The man called threatening me. He tried to get me to verify my personal information, but I would not, so he hung up on me. I called him back, and he would not give me any information about why he was calling, or what company he was calling from. I told him that if he did not tell me hwat this was about, I would call the police. He sarcastically said "go ahead & report me" and then he said "you will see tomorrow what this is all about." and hung up on me again. I tried the FCC, but they said that since there has been no fraud to report, since I do not know of any, that there was nothing they could do. I saved the original threatening voice message he left on my cell phone, and the number he left goes directly to him when I call, but he never says a business name, just tells me that his nameis Kevin Peterson, has a thick accent that is hard to understand, and just keeps saying that I will find out soon enough what the call is about, that I am being sued and should contact a lawyer. I have no idea what that would be about.
Kevin Peterson is a name they use a lot though there is more than one person working as part of this scam operation. They claim you owe them money for payday loans and try to milk you for late fees they threaten to have you taken to jail, they claim people will show up at work and arrest you the next day unless people pay them that day. None of this is legal even if the debt is an honest one which it is not. You are protected under the fair debt collections act. More info on that here: http://www.fair-debt-collection.com/
Tell them nothing, give them nothing. Say nothing other than that you are reporting them and hang up. They will likely call back. Report them to all possible entities of the government. Their company they often claim to be from is cash-connect though they often claim others as well. Many people think there was a data breach somewhere because they have a lot of personal information and often do call people who took out payday loans.
Do not be scammed we were and I am fighting to get my money back. Their phone numbers change all the time because they do not want to be caught and they are not accepting as of the last time I dealt with them mail just faxes and credit card information. No doubt to make it harder to pin them down.
TOTAL SCAM ARTISTS. Their website is even flagged with the following:
**FRAUD ALERT**
Please disregard any calls you may have received stating you owe money to Cash Connect. This is fraudulent activity. Please do not give any personal or payment information to anyone claiming to represent Cash Connect. Cash Connect is an ATM Vault Cash provider and does not provide personal loans.
If you have been contacted by someone claiming to be from Cash Connect, please file a complaint with the FBI using the following website http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx
I failed to mention even after we paid them they called back to claim we owed them MORE money. That is the nerve these people have. They invent loans you did not take out and extort money out of people who clearly do not have money to begin with. Let's be honest if you have to take out a payday loan you are in need of every penny you have. These are predators who do not care about you, your bills, or your family. Tell them you are reporting them and then take your phone off the hook and do not fail to report them you must act.
If you would like to have a little payback do what I did. I called back the gentleman that called me. I told him that I suggested he or his attorney contact me with a payment for their harrassment. Needless to say, he hung up. I then called back. I asked why he hung up. Why he did not want me calling him like he was calling harrassing all of us. He hung up again. The next three times I called he hung right up. Hmm, I guess they don't like it when the shoe is on the other foot. '
They called my phone 4 times today. I have decided that for every time they try to call me I will continue to call them. ***For the record, even a legitimate debt collector can not threaten you with arrest or otherwise and they can not harrass you. I have turned in a report to the Attorney General's reporting site for unfair collection practices before. They followed right up with the group and the calls stopped.
While this may be a fraudulent company and harder to follow up on, our repeative calling of them can be just enough to make them dump our batch of numbers, change their number and move on.