I received a call from this number on my cell phone then at work. A man with heavy accent said I was going to be arrested if I did not pay off my pay day loan. requested me to make payment at the time through a wire transfer. Yesterday I received non-stop calls at work from them saying that if I did not pay they would continue to call me at work. They tied up my lines for about an hour!!! I called and reported to police but of course nothing can be done other that to report it as fraud on www.IC3.gov. I made complaint, meanwhile I am sure they will continue to contact me at work until someone puts a stop to it.
this number called us over 30 times in 30 minutes
we asked for call back information and this was the number we were given.
unwilling to call it from work 5084694098
I just received a message from a man with a very heavy indian accent. He basically threatened that I would be losing my job tomorrow...but the job that he said I haven't been at for over a year. This call seems to be tied to a payday loan company, but I have satisfied all my debt with a company I had a loan with. Could not understand most of the message because of his accent and the background noise. This happened to me about 3 months ago and I'm still not sitting in jail....so I'll ignore it unless they get really out of hand with the number of calls I get.
This is a criminal extortion scam operating out of India. They are making the calls utilizing VOIP and the names of legitimate firms to make it appear the calls are originating from within the US. There is NO "company" or "debt" and you will NOT be arrested. They are harvesting and/or buying consumers' personal identifying information from unscrupulous websites like the one you may have filled out an application with, and you need to do whatever you can to protect yourself. This includes: Notifying the FTC: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/, placing fraud alerts with all three credit bureaus, notifying your bank and employer and letting these criminals know you are aware they are attempting to extort money for a non-existent debt and have alerted the authorities.
ABC News released an investigative report on this scam in June. The FTC has indicted one of its ringleaders for criminal fraud:
Please stop these people from calling my job back to back. I went to see my attorney about this and he tried to talk with them. They kept hanging up. They refused to speak to him. He caaled them about 12 to 15 times because they kept hanging up on him.What do you do. They have called 50 times back to back when I arrived back to my office. Why can't someone stop these people. They even curse at me.
I received a call from this number on my cell phone then at work. A man with heavy accent said I was going to be arrested if I did not pay off my pay day loan. requested me to make payment at the time through a wire transfer. Yesterday I received non-stop calls at work from them saying that if I did not pay they would continue to call me at work. They tied up my lines for about an hour!!! I called and reported to police but of course nothing can be done other that to report it as fraud on www.IC3.gov. I made complaint, meanwhile I am sure they will continue to contact me at work until someone puts a stop to it.