Received a phone call yesterday and they said we owed $2500 to a company called RIAS which in the UK is an insurance company. I am based in the UK and I my 86 year old aunt answered the phone and it really frightened her. This so obviously scam and if these people can be found they should be stopped
I got called by 918-555-0174 and heard a woman's very digital semi-British accent telling me that if I ignore this, it will be an attempt to resist arrest or something to do with Federal Claims Court, so to avoid arrest "kindly. call. us. back. at. our. number. 240-232-2197, thank you and have a nice day." Oh come on! Do these idiots really think that criminals who are about to be arrested really receive recorded messages on their cell phones asking them to "kindly" call back?!? Do they do that in India? I doubt it... so why do they think this would sound realistic here? (I put those periods in the sentence above to show how it sounds when their computer reads it, stopping between every word). Bothersomely, my Reverse Lookup app on my cell phone tells me that this call comes from "Rias - Debt Collector." That means these people have actually got themselves a realistic-looking name so that the Reverse Lookup app will make it look like they're calling from a real company. Google "Rias Debt Collector", you won't find any such real entity. I am sure they are not a real debt collector.