These individuals have called my wife's phone a few times. They state that charges are being brought for money laundry. After several conversations; I took the phone from my wife. I got the information and just led him on. I did a reverse phone contact as well as better business bureau. I have contacted the police and they said they would pass it along. He told me to purchase a green dot money card and fax the receipt to this number (866) 686-9479. The individual that I spoke with said that his name was Roy King. He was working in conjunction with the government and that he was giving me a call in hopes that we could resolve this matter before the actual charges were levied.
I received the same calls about the same time. The said they are from Cash Advance USA and that I need a lawyer and that I comiited a crime with fraud check and that police will be involved. They called my house like 5 times a day. I saw on scambook.com that someone else si going through the same thing. I need some assistance as well. They have all my info and its really creepy.
This is a criminal extortion scam operating out of India. They are making the calls utilizing VOIP and the names of legitimate firms to make it appear the calls are originating from within the US. There is NO "company" or "debt" and you will NOT be arrested. They are harvesting and/or buying consumers' personal identifying information from unscrupulous websites like the one you may have filled out an application with, and you need to do whatever you can to protect yourself. This includes: Notifying the FTC: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/, placing fraud alerts with all three credit bureaus, notifying your bank and employer and letting these criminals know you are aware they are attempting to extort money for a non-existent debt and have alerted the authorities.
ABC News released an investigative report on this scam in June. The FTC has indicted one of its ringleaders for criminal fraud:
They called me to ! Today twice I reported them to the FTC it's a scam I work with a pay day loan company and I've never had one they said I owe on a pay day loan for 5,000 and that I will go to jail that's a lie report this number please these people are very rude and obviously stupid
This number has called me 3x's during the past 2 days. Left 2 messages on my phone that I had to get ahold of them because it was a time sensitive matter. They got really mad because I told them that every word they spoke was being recorded on my phone and that it was going to the Attrny., General for their review. hung up on me.