I have received calls from this number many times in the last several weeks. I see from posts above that these calls are coming from Great Lakes. The odd thing about it is that my student loans have been shifted to different companies twice since Great Lakes serviced them. I think it could be likely that a scammer got my information in all the transfers. Very suspicious indeed!
Call was also from great lakes about past due student loan. Stating the past due. I explained that I couldn't make the full payment but could make a partial payment in couple days. Caller was OVERLY cooperative and said that was fine and that she said secure my payment with a post date check over the phone. Asked again who she was and who she worked with she said she worked for Great Lakes and never told me her name, even after I asked her twice. Then, she apologized twice saying, "I'm sorry. I forgot that I can't secure payment over the phone. That's right, you have to call Sallie Mae." She repeated this statement twice, almost identical to her first statement and I told her I would go ahead and call Sallie Mae and then I hung up.
Great Lakes Higher Education the collection arm for the legal mafia Sallie Mae. Never leave messages at this number yet consistantly do with my mothers voice mail - which they have been told repeatedly to stop doing