Apr 1, 2011
The exact same thing has happened to me as did GG. This man called my husbands cell phone looking for me, which was already a red flag because I never use his number for any business, I use my own. He said I had applied for a $300 pay day loan through Cash Advance of America in Nov. of 2010, which he explained owned at least 50 smaller cash advance businesses, so it could be any one of their subsidiaries. And then explained that I still owed them $50 for a processing fee and that his company had been hired to collect that debt. I told him that I did not owe the money and that I did not take out any pay day loans. I told him that he could mail me the information and I would investigate further but he said he was not at liberty to send me anything. So I told him that if he couldn't send me anything, then I wasn't going to pay anyone any money and that he should not call me anymore. He proceeded to tell me that he was going to continue calling until I paid the fee. I was getting pretty angry by this time and basically yelled at him that I knew my rights and I would file harassement charges if he called me again and hung up. Well, he called right back, so my husband answered and gave him a piece of his mind. We have not heard back from him again, but it has only been a day. What is really funny though, is that later I called the number back from my phone and "Daniel" answered and identified the company as United Financial. How does this guy get our numbers??