They have called my work place at least 40 times today. Some one calling himself Victor (with a heavy Indian accent), stating he works for a law firm, needs to discuss an urgent legal matter, threatening me with arrest,etc. He has been told by myself, co-workers, my supervisor, and the security people at my work not to call back. I work in an operating room for God's sake, and explained to him that I did not have time to talk to him during surgery. I told him if he needed to talk with me to call me after work on my cell and he said he did not have that number, although, I have been getting calls all day on that number too, from the same number calling my work. This person is extremely rude and tries very hard to be intimidating with all of his threats. Finally had enough and filed a complaint with the FTC, called the police, and spoke with the FBI. This seems to be a pattern recently with these people and it has to be stopped. They are getting our private information and using it to harrass people, threaten them, and could possibly do financial harm to everyone that they get this information on. I do not understand why the government doesn't step in and do something to try to protect our citizens from this type of foreign terroism also.
This just happened to me and I called FTC and reported the number. They are annoying idiots and so fake. When you call them back the speak English just fine and then all of sudden its the fake Far East accent.
This is a criminal extortion scam operating out of India. They are making the calls utilizing VOIP and the names of legitimate firms to make it appear the calls are originating from within the US. There is NO "company" or "debt" and you will NOT be arrested. They are harvesting and/or buying consumers' personal identifying information from unscrupulous websites like the one you may have filled out an application with, and you need to do whatever you can to protect yourself. This includes: Notifying the FTC: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/, placing fraud alerts with all three credit bureaus, notifying your bank and employer and letting these criminals know you are aware they are attempting to extort money for a non-existent debt and have alerted the authorities.
ABC News released an investigative report on this scam in June. The FTC has indicted one of its ringleaders for criminal fraud:
They called me and were very aggressive on my voice mail and marked it urgent, etc etc. Said that if they didn't see a call from me within an hour they would prosecute a judgment against me AND my social for a debt. Didn't say what debt. But did tell me what the last 4 of my social security number was. If a scam, how'd they get that info? They called 4 times within 20 minutes, but only left 1 voice mail.