I also recieved a call from a John Catelor, heavy accent and hard to understand, from the Financial Crimes Division regarding a friend of mine, who according to John, had 3 serious charges pending if not resolved by tomorrow morning. The charges were Bank fraud, insurance fraud and, I think, a bad check.
John stated that if the matter wasn't resolved before tomorrow morning, charges were going to be filed against him. John also mentioned I was put down a a reference on some of the forms.
I received a call today from a John with a heavy foreign accent. He said that he was from the Financial Crimes Division. He also said that I was in a big legal mess that I need to call before they take further actions. He left my social security number on the message along with the following closing" now have a good night". The number he left for me to call was 904-239-3952 but the number on the caller id was a local number. When I called the number back, it only ring then went to busy. Do anyone have any advise or comments?
got the same call. same message and he was calling my family giving them my social as well!!! called a financial lawyer and he said that he is violating numerous consumer rights laws with the message itself. save the message and contact someone (financial lawyer) right away! don't know how it will turn out but I am pretty confident that what he is doing (john) is not legal by any means...
Just got the same call from John Kadler,which is a totally fake name considering his thick foreign accent. He left the last 4 digits of my social security number, he must be reading from a script because he said the exact same things to me. I think he's from a payday loan company because I recognize his voice from a previous call. I'm not worried about it because I can't be in any more of a financial mess than I already am.
I got the same call, also from a "John", who said almost word-for-word what you have here. On his message he also read off (correctly) the last 4 digits of my SSN. Does anyone have any more information about this?
Fake Debt Collectors Terrify Consumers
Alleged Debt Scam Calls Threaten Consumers: 'Only God Can Help You Now'
Scammers masquerading as debt collectors and law enforcement officials have terrified consumers with threatening phone calls and bilked them out of thousands of dollars, officials with the West Virginia Attorney General's Office say.
Law enforcement officials in West Virginia say they're struggling to track down alleged scammers who use repeated phone calls, threats and fake names to try to swindle consumers out of thousands in supposed debt repayments.
Prosecutors said that the scammers, who speak with heavy foreign accents, are known for repeatedly calling people at home and at work and threatening them with arrest if they don't repay supposed debts -- debts that, according to West Virginia officials, don't actually exist.
The scammers operate under names such as U.S. National Bank, Federal Investigation Bureau and United Legal Processing, said West Virginia Assistant Attorney General Norman Googel.
The callers also have invoked the names of actors Denzel Washington and Steve Martin, people who've received calls tell ABCNews.com.
Googel said that the scammers have been impossible to track down, but ABCNews.com spoke to one man who claimed to be associated with U.S. National Bank. The man said he works for Financial Crime Division, a company he said provides services for USNB.
The man refused to give his name and gave little information about his company.
"It's not necessary that each and everyone knows about Financial Crime Division, and probably one of them is you," he said.