Like many others that I read on this website received a call on my cell phone and my place of employment. I was unable to take the call when they first called. When I listened to my voice mail a woman with a VERY heavy middle-eastern accent stated something about me being sued and the was pretty much I could understand other than her statement at the end of the message that if I fail to return their call that she regretted what would happen to me and blessed me. I tried to call the number back that she left (916-326-4115) and it no longer in service. Shortly after that my sister called saying that she received a call from the person with a VERY heavy accent stating the she needed to relay a message to me to contact them immediately to avoid going to jail. The call back number they gave her was 760-284-4698.
I tried calling that number and got a message that all the circuits were busy and hung up. About an hour latter I received a call from “Chris Harris”. She had a very heavy Middle Eastern accent and was telling me that I was being sued. I asked her why and she said that she would have to transfer me to the attorney and he would explain it to me in detail. The phone went quiet (didn’t sound like I was put on hold, but someone was covering the receiver) and then man with a VERY heavy accent who stated his name was Daniel White. Mr. White asked me to confirm my social security number. I told him that I wasn’t going to do that and then he proceeded to tell me my correct SS#. He told me I was being sued for check fraud, money laundering and some other kind of bogus claim which I really couldn’t tell what he was saying because of his accent. He told me that I needed stay quiet while he read the charges against me. He proceeded to tell me that I had taken out a pay day loan that I never paid back. He continued to say that I needed to get an attorney and that the court costs could run me as much as $18K and that they were going to notify my employer and I would be fired, blah, blah, blah. He asked for my employer’s fax number so he could send them a copy of the law suit. I gave him my office fax number. After he finished with his spiel he asked me if I had any questions. I asked the name of the company that was claiming I owed them. He stated it was “Cash Advance US”. I told him I have never heard of them. I asked if they had an affiliate or subsidiary and after my having to explain to him what that meant he said they have thousands of affiliates. I then told him that I didn’t owe any payday loans and that I looked up his company on line and saw that they are bogus and that I read how they try bilking people of many with threats of legal action and that this whole thing was bogus. He then said that he could look up my name on line and that I was bogus. With that I hung up. Here it is four hours later and no fax has come through.
I looked on line again concerning “Cash Advance US” and saw all these people that went through the same exactly what I did. People with heavy Middle-Eastern accents with VERY simple, general American names with exact same stories. I want to know what can be done and if anyone has done anything about this scam.