This is a load of BS. I build websites for people and these morons from the "Legal Investigations Unit" (with the THICK Indian Accents) are calling a number listed in the "Whois" directory for the website of one of my clients. For those who aren't aware, the "Whois" directory lists the owner of a domain, their address, phone number and email address so that if someone has to make contact about the domain for some reason, there is a way to do so. It's like a phone book. If you want your info to be unlisted you have to pay an extra fee to a proxy service, yearly, and they provide an address, phone number and email for someone to call When you contact the proxy service, they will then contact the owner of the domain with the info.
I encourage my clients to use the proxy but if they don't want to, I tell them to get a P.O. Box and use internet voice mail to avoid giving SCAM ARTISTS access to personal info. This actually costs more than the proxy but some clients don't want to rely on the proxy service, they want direct control and they want immediacy.
My assumption here is that these imbeciles troll the "Whois" and make random calls. I could be wrong since they aren't using the registrants name, but it seems to me that this is complete BS. The calls are also so vague as to be laughable.
This number called me twice today. The guy on the other end can barely speak English. He claimed that he was with the criminal investigations department and that my name and social security number is under investigation. He asked for my attorneys name and number. I gave him an attorneys name and number. He then called back 3 hours later. I then told him that he had already contacted me once and I gave him the information that he was requesting. This is not the first call I have gotten like this and it is getting very annoying. I don't see any other claims on this site about this number so hopefully it is a scam just as I am presuming it to be.
This [***] just happened to me! It has to be a scam! I totally believed the [***] they where telling me so i wired money to Cynthia Forbes which does not work under investigation so my boyfriend tells me that it's a scam so I canceled the application and got my money back. They have never sent me anything in the mail or they did not even email me the information they where calling about for funds, so I call the number back an it rings and rings and does not have a voicemail and it just beeps and cuts you off line. My conclusion...it's a scam!
i keep receiving calls from this number telling me i am under investigation and the sheriffs office is coming to my residence. when i ask for details they hang up. SCAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOl This is so funny! I just got the same call and I said I was a detective and have no loans. I also said if there were loans owed on my behalf that I would file a lawsuit for stolen identity as I have fraud alert on my credit and no one can obtain credit not even me unless the company issuing the credit contacts me first to verify information and no such company has done so! Total SCAM!!!!!!!