I too have had several meesages from this number and others and at work it comes in as a 0000 number. I've had John Smith, William Jones, Steve Brown and today Tony Parker. I asked if he was the basketball star and he replied he doesn't know anything thing about basketball. All these men all have a foreign thick accent (Indian?). I've been getting theses calls since 2010 always ignoring them today I finally spoke with them and tried in vain to listen to waht he was saying and yes he wanted me to settle this matter out of court by paying 395.00 dollars or go to court where I will have to pay back a loan I supposedly defaulted on (no) plus court costs. They will send people to my job and have me arrested. I Told him to send all legal paperwork to my legal department at my job (I work for the government) and they will advise me how to proceed with this matter if it is truely a criminal case (NOT!). He refused, so before I hung up I told him again to send it to the legal department and I said good bye to him and he told me well then I can't help you and you and your family will have hell to pay and proceeded to tell me to F--- Off! Wow this is an OFc Tony Parker of some type of court and he told me that! Yeah, total SCAM!!!!
I received a call today from a officer Eden and he said he could not disclose any information over the phone and that it would be in my best intrest to call him back as soon as posible and that he was from the invetagation dept. Im soo glad that I had my son goggle the number and that people like you shared your stories and let people like me know that scums like this exist. thank you.
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/phished 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.
I also got the call and when I asked for the information to be mailed, "john smith's supervisor, and additional information he fumbled with his words then told me God bless and hung up.