It want a call I got a email that had this number on it. It stated it was from the district attorneys office in new jersey and that I owe $1800.00 for a loan I never received and if I did not pay I would be arrested. Also sent a document he claimed was the car rest warrant. Tried calling this number someone picked up phone and said hello. Nowcif this was real why would he say hello insteadca district attorneys office of john j Hoffman.
Got a call today that showed up on my caller id as 911 and they left an automated message saying they were Joseph Fuentez with the US Attorney General's office and that I have federal charges pending against me for financial loss and that if I did not call back within 2 hours a warrant for my arrest would be issued and I would be taken into custody. They said that I needed to call back immediately to take care of this issue. When I called back they said that the call was in regards to an Advance America cash advance loan and that I needed to pay $1000 immediately or I would be arrested. The man that answered barely spoke English and did not even recognize the name Joseph Fuentez which was in my voicemail. I told him it was impossible for Advance America to have any financial loss charges against me because I have not had any cash advances at all in the last 12 years and demanded to speak with Joseph Fuentez. He told me to hold and then hung up on me. When I called back he said that they had reached me by wrong number and to disregard the message. Then at 10:00pm I got another call that was from an unknown number leaving the same message. I am calling my local sheriff's department tomorrow to take out harassment charges and filing against them for violating the do not call on my phone as well.
I had almost the same experience as Jennifer, except that I got a message machine, with a badly-accented voice on the other end -- definitely NOT a PD.
Garden variety Indian/Pakistani debt/law scammers. Accent so thick you can cut it with a knife.
Axiom:
If anyone with an Indian accent cold calls you and ( 1) threatens you or ( 2) offers you something, you know it's a scam--so hang up immediately and block the call.
Nothing against Indians or [***]; that's just the way the world is right now.
Corollary
Never wire anyone money if you do not know them personally.
File a complaint with the FBI on their Internet Crime webpage http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx