I received a phone call from Sandra Smith with Cohen Burke and Assoc. regarding what maybe Identity theft and she was out of breath as if she was running or something she gave me a case number, but get this they called my brother's house asking for me and left a different case number. After thinking about what this could possibly be, because i am very discreet when it comes to my information. I decided to look up this number 813 498 2996 and I found it to be a sure scam.
I received a phone call from Sandra Smith with Cohen Burke and Assoc. regarding what maybe Identity theft and she was out of breath as if she was running or something she gave me a case number, but get this they called my brother's house asking for me and left a different case number. After thinking about what this could possibly be, because i am very discreet when it comes to my information. I decided to look up this number 813 498 2996 and I found it to be a sure scam.
TOTAL SCAM. I have been receiving calls from Sandra Smith with Cohen Burke and Associates for several weeks now, with the exact same message as the other people above who have posted their stories. She claimed I owed them $300 from an outstanding loan with some fictitious company I have never heard of before nor have ever done business with. I've received similar calls before from a bogus phone number where all of the people had heavy Indian accents. They somehow have some or all of your social security number and other private information (not sure how or where they obtain it) - and then they ask you to fill in the missing pieces. DON'T FALL FOR THIS. I told Sandra that I knew this was a scam and for them to take me off whatever 'list' they have. I'm going to try and report this somehow.
This lady was a Sandra Smith (I believe her last name was). She sounded black. She said that this was their 4th attempt to contact me. If I did not respond, "she would have no choice but to contact my residence and place of employment". She gave me a file name, but it sounded phony. Back in early 2011, there was a similar scam pulled on me. I took out a loan from an on-line payday advance place. I got a call from an Indian/African/Middle Eastern sounding man who said that my payday advance had not gone through when they had tried to collect from me. They asked me to send debit information to them by fax, and they had a long distance fax number. They then took out the money. I received a call from two different companies, and they collected a total of over $1,000. I then saw my bank statement and saw that the payday advance place (legitimate) had received their money. I then called the person that contacted me, and said that they had deducted the money twice. They said that the other place was a scam, and that they had only deducted my money once. I called the payday advance place, and they said that they were both scams, and that this was a common scam. I went to my bank, and they refunded the money for both transactions, over $1,000. I then got a call from the outfit, who said that I still owed the money. They asked me why I had stopped payment, and I said, "because you're a scam", and hung up on them. I then got repeated calls on cell, work, and home, saying that they were from the Department of Investigation, they had my social security number and name, and that I would be reported to the local district attorney, and would be contacted at my work place. Everytime it was a foreign sounding individual. The people that I gave as references for the payday advance were contacted as well: my mom, a friend of mine, and my supervisor. I told them all that it was a scam, and to ignore it. This stopped. I ignored all calls, and hung up on them. Now I have gotten a call from this number several times now, and it is all related to that payday loan scam.
I received a call from a mrs. Chan stating I owe 1430.85. If I didn't pay by noon the next day then felony check fraud charges would be filed. I called the original loan office I got the loan from and they stated that they wrote the loan off but when they wrote it off I only owed them 430.85. Is this a scam? And also this loan is from 3 years ago