Received voice message that it was imperative that I return the call to RW & Associates Legal Department and talk with Ms. Williams about my daughter. My daughter had left me as a contact person and Reference - only thing is this was on my home phone, my daughter-in-law only has my cell phone number. Duh!! Only problem was it wasn't my daughter but daughter-in-law. Well anyway - after talking with my daughter-in-law this is a total SCAM! Ms Williams had contacted her about a 6 year old debt. Wait I didn't know my daughter-in-law 6 years ago, how could I have been put down as a contact person and reference. TOTAL SCAM - DON'T REPLY and definitely DON'T SEND MONEY!
FRAUD !!! Called me and my family several times claiming that I owed money for a check loan I had taken out 4 yrs ago . Said his company was " Reed, White and associates " . A few days later I received another call ( from a lady that went by the name of Mrs. Williams ) that claimed to be from that same company . DONT SEND THEM ANY MONEY
Received voice message that it was imperative that I return the call to RW & Associates Legal Department and talk with Ms. Williams about my daughter. My daughter had left me as a contact person and Reference - only thing is this was on my home phone, my daughter-in-law only has my cell phone number. Duh!! Only problem was it wasn't my daughter but daughter-in-law. Well anyway - after talking with my daughter-in-law this is a total SCAM! Ms Williams had contacted her about a 6 year old debt. Wait I didn't know my daughter-in-law 6 years ago, how could I have been put down as a contact person and reference. TOTAL SCAM - DON'T REPLY and definitely DON'T SEND MONEY!
FRAUD Received voice message that it was imperative that I return the call to RW & Associates Legal Department and talk with Ms. Williams about my daughter. My daughter had left me as a contact person and Reference - only thing is this was on my home phone, my daughter-in-law only has my cell phone number. Duh!! Only problem was it wasn't my daughter but daughter-in-law. Well anyway - after talking with my daughter-in-law this is a total SCAM! Ms Williams had contacted her about a 6 year old debt. Wait I didn't know my daughter-in-law 6 years ago, how could I have been put down as a contact person and reference. TOTAL SCAM - DON'T REPLY and definitely DON'T SEND MONEY!
They call family, friends, neighbors and/or places of employment (past or present or both) to create panic and embarrassment so that their intended victim calls them and they can scare that person into paying their extortion money.
This is a common ploy by criminals masquerading as debt collectors who are attempting to extort money from people by scaring you into believing that you will be criminally charged, go to jail, lose your driver’s license, have wages garnished, be sued, and a variety of other variations on this, all for an alleged or nonexistent debt. One of the tricks they use is to call your work place, friends, or relatives repeatedly in an attempt to shame you into paying. They also use the “process server” ruse who calls and claims he is going to serve you, but then says you could avoid it by calling another number. Please not that process servers do not ever call ahead. That way you can’t dodge them.
Read up on your rights here, get template letters to send and also make a complaint at this government site: http://www.consumerfinance.gov/
Also file a complaint with your State Attorney General's office.
List of State AG’s offices: http://consumerfraudreporting.org/stateattorneygenerallist.php
Same number called me and told me I had a hot check that used to get a loan some 3 1/2 years ago and if I didn't pay they where gonna file charges.. good thing I know the law the statue of limitations is 2yrs .plus I never owned a check book the guy calls and when I called back it was a ms williams who said she was in Florida and I google the law firm and it doesn't exist