hone # came up as a local number on my caller ID. Same schtick as always, Officer Mark Thomas, who can barely speak English calling to talk to me or my attorney off record regarding a very important case. Call back immediately and talk to his hotline # 626-802-5000. Total BS. They may have SSN, employer, and home address but can do nothing because all info was sold to them. They are located in India!!
To anyone who may read this post and TO EVERYONE THAT RECEIVES CALLS FROM THIS NUMBER : This number is supposedly attached to a one "Sharon Johnson" and also supposedly is the main number to the law firm of Lathum and Watkins" with an address of 365 E Grand Ave Los Angeles, Ca 90072. When I called it this afternoon, a very thick accented Middle Eastern man claimed to be a lawyer for Lathum and Watkins. Long story short, he would only speak his name so quickly when I asked that it was totally not understandable. In an angry and upset tone of voice, he gave me the above address. When asked for the main number of the law firm he would not provide it. When I asked for Sharon Johnson, he refused to transfer the call until he was talking to the person who the delinquent account was the person they were speaking with. by the end of this conversation, the person I spoke to who supposedly was a lawyer with this law firm was yelling at me and would not even take my address as a place to send all documentation and then proceeded to hang up on me. When that happened, I knew I was not speaking with a law firm on the west coast, I was speaking to a scam skank. First thing I did was google Lathum and Watkins to verify the info given to me. It was close but not exactly correct. I then called the number on the website for this law firm and was finally connected to a Mr. Phillip Beeney who found the information I had optained to be VERY EXCITING. He thanked me for calling the law firm and telling them about what was happening to their good name.
The following is his recommendation for any further calls coming from this number. In a very calm , even tempered, and polite voice inform the caller that the law firm of Lathum and Watkins has been notified and they are investigating this situation and will prosecute to the fullest extint of the law and parties associated in a very obvious scam. He then said to inform the caller that the law firm instructed you to just say good bye and hang up. Then just hang up. Phillip said that if the calls became a nuisance or worse, to call your phone service provider and report the numbers and have them blocked so the calls would not be completed. For the time being until actual people can be arrested and prosecuted, that was about all we could do.
http://www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/reporting.htm- here are the places to report this-
This is clearly internet fraud as they got your info from a database- you can find field office #'s for the FBI at www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field/fieldoffices
Type of Crime
Appropriate federal investigative law enforcement agencies
Computer intrusion (i.e. hacking)
* FBI local office
* U.S. Secret Service
* Internet Crime Complaint Center
Password trafficking
* FBI local office
* U.S. Secret Service
* Internet Crime Complaint Center
Counterfeiting of currency
* U.S. Secret Service
Child Pornography or Exploitation
* FBI local office
* if imported, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
* Internet Crime Complaint Center
Child Exploitation and Internet Fraud matters that have a mail nexus
* U.S. Postal Inspection Service
* Internet Crime Complaint Center
Internet fraud and SPAM
* FBI local office
* U.S. Secret Service (Financial Crimes Division)
* Federal Trade Commission (online complaint)
* if securities fraud or investment-related SPAM e-mails, Securities and Exchange Commission (online complaint)
* The Internet Crime Complaint Center
scam scam scam!!!
this guy calls me on my cell with my info saying that the cops will be at my home to arrest me if i didn't pay some ridicoulous amount of money. when i question some of the information it was invalid. the guy hung up on me several times after me bugging and calling back
don't believe a word of it this, IT IS A MONEY SCAM.
BY THE WAY I HOPE THESE PEOPLE ARE FOUND AND SUED FOR EVERYTHING THEY GOT.