received two back to back calls from this number, let it go to voicemail and then listened to the phone message. From 727-379-2158 claimed to be Mike Thomas but had a very thick accent so didn't understand anything he said. I called the number back later and was supposedly transferred to Mike Thomas, he claimed he was a legal officer for something and that he represented some payday loan office but could never tell me who. I advised him that the FBI had a file on this specific number with complaints from different individuals in the US and that they were under surveillance. He had little else to say and i hung up.
I'm a TA and this person kept calling my work and eventually left a message. I was in testing so I had my son call back as me and every time he called the same guy with an Indian accent kept answering the phone using different name.
He asked to be transferred to the person who called and the same guy pretended to be that person.
Basically it's a payday loan scam. He says he's some debt collection agency and that I'm being sued by cash advance (but wouldn't say what cash advance company).
He had my social security number, gave me a fake case number and when I dropped the bomb that my wife is a lawyer and I used to be an investigator he quickly got off the phone.
THIS IS AN EXTORTION SCAM. Scammers pretend to be law enforcement (police, sheriff, Feds, AG's Office, fake cop agencies with made-up names) and may be using bought/hacked loan application data to extort money or personal info for fictitious crimes.
The real DEA warns about fake-DEA extortion scams here http://www.justice.gov/dea/pubs/states/newsrel/2010/denver111010.html
The real FBI warns about payday loan extortion scams here http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/paydayloanscam_120710
The real FDA warns about fake-FDA extortion scams here http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/2009/ucm195814.htm
The real FDIC warns about fake-FDIC extortion scams here http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/specialalert/2010/sa10131.html
Report to the Internet Crime Complaint Center http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx , the Federal Communications Commission http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm , the Federal Trade Commission https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/ and your state AG, as appropriate.
Same heavy accent calls me about 5 times a day. Tells me he is an officer, charges have been filed and I will be going to jail. I dont answer anymore. I just let him go to the voice mail.