Sep 16, 2014
This just happened to me. Like, literally half an hour ago I received a voice message from someone calling from "the financial crime division" claiming that I am a "central subject in an active criminal investigation being downloaded in my county today." That message was left by someone calling herself Karen Rogers. I called back and spoke with a woman who placed me on hold saying that she would pull up my info (presumably from the number I was calling from). I was on hold for several minutes before the call was dropped.
I called back and spoke with another woman who, when I asked, told me her name is "Investigator Thomas." She also told me that there was an affidavit out for a failure to pay a payday loan supposedly taken out in January 2013. She told me that this loan or that the company trying to reach me was named Everest Cash, and that this warrant was out because I had failed to return their attempts to contact me. I've just gone through my email searching the name of "Everest Cash" in the inbox as well as the spam folder, and there's not one email from an Everest Cash.
When I asked if she had information on the bank account this money was supposedly deposited into, she called a bank that I haven't had dealings with for nearly three years (which means that there is no way that any money would have been deposited into that account because it was closed by the date they're citing (above)).
I would never have a reason to take out a payday loan. I'm gainfully employed. I think that this is a phishing scam from whomever is calling from 404.418.8981. Because when I asked this Investigator Thomas what the name of her division is she kept mumbling part of the name ("Fraud and ??? Check" then finally after me asking her to repeat a couple times said "FCD," which according to her stands for "Fraud and Check Division"). When I asked her what agency or office she was calling from she said "Bob Howard and Associates."
I believe this to be a phishing scam.