Jul 14, 2009
WARNING THIS IS A COMPLETE SCAM!!!
Hello Everyone,
I have been recieving multiple calls from 415-200-0265 daily. I was never left a vm until yesterday. A women stated her name was Jennifer (who had a real bad accent)and that I needed to call her back as soon as I get the message and if I did not return the phone call that she could Wish the Best for me as the situation falls upon me.
Well I didn't return the phone and was just explaining the situation to a co-worker. She advised me to look the number up on here. So I did and I read all the posts. Well as I was tellig my co-worker about what i had found I got a phone call transfered to me from another department. I told the caller to call me back on my cell phone.
The caller is named Jacob Morris. He stated that He needed the number for my lawyer asap. I told him I did not have a lawyer and asked him what this was about. He continued to say that because of an outstanding payday loan that I was being charged with Check Fraud, Bank Fraud and another type of fraud. I couldn't under stand him to good. I told him that I did not have any legal proceedings against me. He asked me if I ever had any judgemets against me or have been convicted of a crime. I told him no again. He stated the following.
"Luz ******** all of your court costs and fees for making us find you will add up to $5484.87. This does not include your bail money or lawyer fees. Make sure that when you are arrested tomorrow that you have someone to bail you out."
SInce I knew this was a scam I figured I'd play along. I asked how I can get this resolved. He said that he can get me an "out of court restitution" (I think I spelled that wrong) and that they would only charge me half of all the fines which is $2095.00 and can be payed with a Credit or Debit card. I would avoid Jail Time. The next thing he asked me for was two letters that should be faxed to 714-845-0766. The first letter was to be an apology letter on why I defaulted on my loan, the second was to be a permission letter to use my credit card to take care of this balance. I had to included my social security #, age, phone number, date of birth and address. I would recieve a confrimation number of my payment with in five business days.
After agreeing to all of this Crap...I asked for the phone number and address of his company. He stated that I already had the number which is 941-961-8518 (it was registered in Florida). I said okay and he gave me the following address (which by the way my co-worker was looking on google maps while he was talking) Address = 11846 Website Towers, West Olympic Blvd L.A. Califorina 90066. (It did not register on the map)
At that point I had enough. I stated to him "Okay Your number is coming up as a Florida Number, the Address you have given is not a real address in LA. I know that this is a SCAM and I have contacted the Federal Trade commission. I got hung up on. I quickly dialed the number back (941-961-8518) and it was disconnected. Within less then five seconds the number was DISCONNECTED!!
WARNING THIS IS A SCAM!!
I'm glad I read all of these postings before actually getting a call from them again. My question is...how do they get this information. Is the pay day loan companies selling customer information???
Any way I hope this helps anyone. Thanks and Good Luck!