Aug 26, 2010
"Gavin Thomas, Investigator" claiming to be collecting a an old payday loan debt, which I've never had.
First a case had all ready been filed against me, then when I asked for the case number, he said he didn't have it because the case was actually being filed in one hour.
He could not tell me what court the case was being filed in.
Then a case was going to be filed at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow morning in my state (although he didn't know what state it was and couldn't pronounce it) and the police were going to be coming to my work to serve me a summons.
When I asked to speak to the attorney that would be filing the paperwork and pursuing the case, they said they "couldn't know all the attorneys they had working for them"
I found the whole call quite amusing, as I'm an attorney and have a pretty good command on what happens when a case is filed. This is a mere annoyance for me, but it's appalling to think that these scammers are actually convincing some people to pay a bogus debt because they of these abusive scare tactics!
I even called the company they claimed to be representing to see if someone had fradulently taken out a payday loan in my name, but they didn't have any information associated with me at all.