Mar 26, 2009
Yes, I received the same phone call (I live in CA) from a man claiming to be John Anderson (his number was 646-918-5212) and he was calling on behalf of his collection agency. When I questionsed him on what company was claiming a defaulted loan, he said he that I should call Roger Smith from the company that was making the claim (at 360-350-1994).
This guy Roger Smith, says: "I'm from "Cash Advance USA" no, no "Advance Cash USA". I'm thinking in my head, you do not know the name of your own company? And he says he can't talk to me because all the information has been forwarded to the collection agency.
So I did some reseasrch and I did get a pay day loan, around the time they claimed but they wouldn't give me a specific date, just the month and year.
So then I called the pay loan company that I got the loan from (PayDayMax and this was from a loan I got in Dec 2007 and they said, "no you are in good standing with us, you paid your loan 10 dyas after you got the loan, there is nothing outstanding with us."
So I called this John Anderson guy back and he got abusive over the phone, and said; "I'm not going to discuss this with you, either you pay up or we are going to sue you."
So I said; "Well send be the information so I can verify the information and know what you are talking about.
And this John Anderson guy (Indian, from India by the way) said; "No, are you going to pay right now or are you going to go to court?"
And I said:"I'm not going to agree to anything until I know what you are talking about."
He said; "Pay up b***h or we are going to sue you"
At which I said; "This conversation is over and I'm calling the cops on you"
Which I did, I went down to the police station and the officer that spoke to said he got a call like that earlier today too.
The scary part is that they had my bank account number and SSN which is why I didn't hang up on them right way. I already contacted the TransUnion, Experian, and Equafax and my bank. It was too late today to talk to FTC the State Attorney's Office and the FBI. But I will be contacting them tomorrow. Hope you guys have better luck than me.