Your ex is the intended target of extortionists. You should read the following as well because they will keep calling you, especially since you told them that you know that person. They may even threaten you with a lawsuit or jail.
Criminals masquerading as debt collectors attempt to extort money from people by scaring you into believing that you will be criminally charged (they use the bad check or hot check claim a lot) and go to jail, lose your driver’s license, have wages garnished without actually being sued or going to court, 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 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. They will use the words “Mediator”, “Arbitrator”, or “Law Office” to make you believe that they are something other than a debt collector want-a-be and that they don’t have to follow Federal and State collection laws. They do have to follow those laws, but they won’t. They mention that they have received a Fax document, to create the sense of urgency. They also tell you that if you fail to call them back you are "waiving your right to council", which is pretty much nothing but hogwash. 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 where they will ask for money to “make it go away” (this is actually the same place, they work in teams, one pretending to be the server, and the other usually pretends to be a lawyer). Process servers do not ever call ahead so that you can dodge them. Process servers get paid to serve papers, nothing else.
Read up on your rights here 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://800notes.com/faq/attorney-general
This man Logan keeps calling me saying I owe money for a payday loan from 2003 ..never took one out ..hes telling they are taking legal action against me ..dont know who they are
"please help" Sure, first read my other post, the one right there above yours. Then use those links to go to the official government websites that will tell you how debt collection is supposed to work, and what they are required to do.
A coworker got a call left for me at work. The same bull story that several have reported. I get so angry at these people and their humiliation tactics. I'll pass the information on to my lawyer and let them deal with it.