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May 2, 2012
Nationwide Investigation is a debt collector who is using junk debt buying tactics on debts such as payday loans.
They will call you up and portray themselves as having a legal case against you, typically as the "Fraud and Felony Division". There is no such animal. Contact regarding fraud charges would come from a law enforcement agency.
They are violating the FDCPA by failing to immediately identify themselves on every call as a debt collector and by threatening criminal legal action on issues that are purely civil in nature; there have been no instances where an attorney general has prosecuted failure to pay a payday loan off as check fraud, and there never will be.
When they call, ask them to provide their name and mailing address for a debt validation letter and a cease and desist notice. If they refuse, repeat the request until they hang up on you. Do not give them any personal information - especially not any account or credit card information! In many cases these debts are outside the statute of limitations for even civil legal action, but by making any sort of payment arrangements, or even verbally verifying the debt as yours, can reset the timer on that statute; the likelihood that they will sue you is low, but better not to let that timer get reset anyway.
They will call you up and portray themselves as having a legal case against you, typically as the "Fraud and Felony Division". There is no such animal. Contact regarding fraud charges would come from a law enforcement agency.
They are violating the FDCPA by failing to immediately identify themselves on every call as a debt collector and by threatening criminal legal action on issues that are purely civil in nature; there have been no instances where an attorney general has prosecuted failure to pay a payday loan off as check fraud, and there never will be.
When they call, ask them to provide their name and mailing address for a debt validation letter and a cease and desist notice. If they refuse, repeat the request until they hang up on you. Do not give them any personal information - especially not any account or credit card information! In many cases these debts are outside the statute of limitations for even civil legal action, but by making any sort of payment arrangements, or even verbally verifying the debt as yours, can reset the timer on that statute; the likelihood that they will sue you is low, but better not to let that timer get reset anyway.