Adam Woods called me from another number 630-332-0853 dont answer if he calls....

I get a call from Adam Woods saying he is an officer threatning me saying I am going to be  arrested for loans I took out meanwhile my bank statements dont lie I asked him what loan companies he would not give me an answer

Call the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and your State Police. When they call back, tell them that you are aware they are running an extortion ring, have notified the authorities and hang up.

Kudos to "Sam" for giving the most intelligent and informative posts on this scam. READ, Bookmark and use as needed:

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-631-456-4041/2

I have been receiving phone calls from this group since late April / early May of 2010.  There is a good chance that they also attempted to contact me roughly two years ago before I entered into Chapter 7 Bankruptcy protection, as I faintly remember hearing the same script more or less.

As others have stated, the callers are difficult to understand.  Generally speaking their command of the English language is quite poor and their accents are hard to follow. At times they will get certain words or phrases mixed up.  It would be funny if it wasn't for the fact that they had:

a) Your SSN
b) Your home address
c) Your work address
d) Your banking info
e) Names, numbers and potentially the addresses of "references"
f) A complete and total lack of ethics and a basic understanding of the FDCPA.  

I have personally filed reports with the following agencies, often with limited (if any) success:

Local Police
my state's Attorney General's office
FTC
FBI
Secret Service

Generally the local police won't be able to help much.  The callers are using a combination of prepaid cell phones and VoIP, making them difficult to trace.  Also at their disposal are various spoofing tactics being implemented to catch people off guard - meaning the number that appears on your Caller ID isn't the number that is calling you for starters.  Without gaining a subpoena for the billing information for the numbers in question, the local police won't be able to get very far.  

My state's Attorney General's office couldn't offer much assistance either.  I received a form letter in the mail that my complaint was received and I would be contacted if they needed additional info.  It was more or less the same information I obtained from the FTC.  They each advised me not to give the individuals over the phone any account information or to authorize payment.  That's just common sense, though.

I never got anything from the FBI, either.  There is a good chance that since I haven't suffered a monetary loss that my concerns are low on the totem pole.  I hate to say this, but that is truly the case. Unless you were in the hole for a $1,000 (or more) you aren't going to get much more than "sorry to hear about your situation, change your phone number and move on".  I seemed to get some activity from the Secret Service.  I spoke with agent Doug Zloto. (Google him, referencing threads like these plus his name and you'll find his number also)  He seemed to care a bit more than the average person, but after giving him access to my Google Voice account, there has been no further activity from him that I'm aware of.

In the meantime I changed the wireless number the fraudsters had access to, they have no direct way to get a hold of me.  (Calls at work have ceased for some reason)  That in turn resulted in my "references" getting phone calls from the crooks.  Here is a word of caution for women that have been getting these calls - don't say anything and just hang up.  The callers are quite abusive towards women callers.  Why?  Possibly the culture.  If they are Indian / Pakistani, women are second class citizens there.  You will be treated like garbage.  This happened to a family member when she was trying her best to be extremely nice over the phone.  

The callers currently attempt to reach me through the female family member and an unused Google Voice number that they managed to find of mine.  I keep the Google Voice number open because, well, I can't delete it yet.  So, about every day, 4-5 times a day for the last week, I get voice messages from them.  It's usually just two full messages though - the other calls are broken up with static or they are attempts to read the script until the callers then screw up.  Really, they are that adamant on getting the script 100% that they will hang up mid-sentence and call back 30 seconds later.  

At this point it's a stalemate with these people.  

1) While they have the lion's share of information on us, they can't really do anything with this information.  

Why?  Think about it.

If they were to ever take funds out of your account without authorization, it's fraud and worse (for them) it is traceable.  That's why they won't do anything with your information, contrary to threats they make.  The money from your account has to go somewhere, and either your bank or a law enforcement agency can determine where the money was routed.  As a bank customer you are protected - you'd get the stolen money back in your account after 7-10 business days and the bank would be temporarily out the funds deducted from your account while they conducted their investigation.  The bank, along with law enforcement, would track down the fraudsters and apprehend them.  The fraudsters do not want to incur the wrath of a bank, just extort money out of you.  Remember that.    

Your authorization would absolve the bank from any and all liability, leaving you holding the bag.  Never give them authorization for anything - for all you know the call is recorded.  

2) We have no information on them.

Seriously, this has been going on at least since 2008, possibly longer than that based on some accounts. (6 years??? Holy crap!)  You would think someone would have slipped up by now.  Sadly, they haven't.  We can continue to grow our own intel on them and compile lists of aliases and phone numbers used, along with paraphrases of scripts used in order to educate other victims.  I'm actually putting together a site now in the meantime where I'll host audio files and lists of previous numbers used.  800notes.com is great, but no two calls are exactly the same.  It would be nice to have a site dedicated to the scam and how it works.

So that's where I am with these calls.  I have suffered no monetary loss, though I have been harassed both at home and at work.  They threaten me with arrest and other "fun" things in order to get me convinced I have to pay them.  My friends and family have been targeted and local and federal law enforcement agencies haven't been able to put a stop to things.  So, it is what it is.  I am out a wireless phone number I had for roughly six years, which is terrible since I was using that line when looking for a new job.  

Whenever I'm bored I spoof my number using Google Voice and return the calls.  I've called them the poster children for birth control, etc.  Basically a lot of nasty things that I'm sure the moderators here wouldn't appreciate me repeating - bottom line nothing nice.  I always like to close saying their parents must be real proud knowing their sons weren't man enough to get real jobs.  That usually gets a decent response.  

Way I see it - they can't do anything to me. (Despite a threat yesterday that my life would be f'ed up)  They can threaten all they want but my credit is frozen and my bank information has changed.  I've changed the only number they could really access me directly on and I've instructed my employer and family to not answer the calls.  I just call and harass them now when I find a few extra seconds.  What's the worst they can do to me?  Charge me with harassment?  

Nope, then they would have to identify themselves.

Oh, and don't bother contacting Cashnet USA about the calls.  Their "fraud" department could honestly care less.  Their "investigation" is merely a means of buerocratic CYA.  I would even be surprised at this point if actual law enforcement is involved in any shape, way or form at this time.  

There is a good chance that the information these crooks have on us was obtained from Cashnet USA - either from a database leak or from a collector that was once authorized by Cashnet to call on delinquent customers.  The other chance is they have access to Teletrack, and pulled all of our information off of there.

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-646-274-1143/3

For at least the last four years, possibly longer, a group has been calling former payday loan applicants advising them that they have defrauded a bank and are now being sued for non-payment of a loan.  The callers will claim to be calling on behalf of an attorney's office (name varies), the Dept. of Law and Investigation, ACS, or other similar combinations below:

United Legal Processing Division
Midline Marketing
Crime Monitoring Services
Monetary Crime Division
U.S. National Bank
Attorney General?s Office (usually in California)
American Legal Services
Affidavit Consolidation Services (ACS)

You will be threatened with arrest, a costly trial and possibly worse.  In no shape, way or form can you be arrested for non-payment on a consumer debt.  Do not believe these threats, as they are without merit and cannot be carried out in the manner they allege.  

Who are they?

In the past when pressed by law enforcement for an address, the callers have provided the following information:

David Morgan and Associates
Morgan & Associates
Morgan Associates
954-727-8481
1155 Northwest 85th Street
Wintergarden, Florida  33150
(Address is likely invalid)

The collector's MO matches a once legit collections agency called Ellis Crosby & Associates.  Here are some links on them:

http://www.budhibbs.com/collectorpages/ellis_crosby_and_associates.htm
http://www.budhibbs.com/collectorpages/EllisCrosbyJudgment.pdf

They have been previously fined over $1.3 million for various violations.  They have been known to use phone banks in India to make their calls, which more or less coincides with the difficult to understand accent many of us detect when we are contacted.  

The last time this group went by any "official" name was back in 2008:

Ellis Crosby & Associates / Douglas & Morgan Associates
4494 Southside Boulevard Suite #200
Jacksonville Florida 32216
Phone:  800-928-3536 / (904) 928-3536
(Address is likely invalid)

There are NUMEROUS consumer alerts out against this group of individuals:

Florida:
http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/061107/met_176207561.shtml

Kansas:  
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2010/01/ks_debt_collection.html

Colorado:  
http://www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov/press/ ... lls_likely_orig

Rhode Island:  
http://www.collectionscreditrisk.com/news/rho ... -3002135-1.html

West Virginia:
http://www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam.cfm

Missouri:
On July 15th, 2010 a Public Awareness Bulletin was sent out by Missouri Information Analysis Center.  

"..received reports from individuals in Ohio and Illinois reference suspicious telephone calls they received. In both instances, the callers are reporting that a voicemail is received from a man, with a Middle Eastern accent, identifying himself as an officer working with the Financial Crimes Unit.  The message indicates that the reason for the call concerns a loan made by the receiver or someone in the receiver's family. The voicemail requests that a return call be made and a telephone number is provided. When a return call is made, the caller is asked to provide personal identifying information such as their date of birth and social security number.

Reports indicate that the calls are frequent and persistent and that they even threaten arrest or legal action if information or money is not provided. It appears that the individuals making these calls may have access to some records connecting individuals and their relatives.  Missouri does not have a Financial Crimes Unit and all indications are that this is a fictitious agency. If you receive a similar phone call, please be advised that it is a scam and please contact your local law enforcement agency or the Missouri Information Analysis Center at 866-362-6422."

Bottom line:

Do not supply the callers with any additional information.  Inform them you have reported them to law enforcement and hang up.  If you haven't already, go ahead and report the calls to local law enforcement, your state's Attorney General and beyond.  Look up the local Secret Service branch's information in your area and get in contact with an agent there.  

If you ever applied for a cash advance online, your information is out there.  
Possible sources for the breach of your privacy are:

* The scammers obtained your information from Teletrack - a reporting agency used by many cash advance lenders to determine their risk lending to you.  The service is able to tell cash advance lenders if you have existing loans with other companies, for example.  Many state laws prohibit borrowers from having more than two cash advances out at the same time.

* The scammers created their own fake payday loan application site.  People looking for a cash advance went to the site and applied, thus freely providing the scammers with their information for malicious use at a later time.  

* The scammers were able to get into the database(s) of cash advance lenders - probable targets being Sonic Payday and Cashnet USA.  


How to protect yourself:

* Inform your employer.  You are likely getting calls at home and/or at work, so make sure your employer is aware the calls are part of a scam and to not take them seriously.  Advise the callers that they are no longer allowed to call you at work.  If they continue to call, document the date and time of the calls you received.  Save voice mails left if at all possible.  

* Change your number(s).  For some this may not be an option, for others a one-time number change can be done free of charge.

Be advised - any references you listed on your payday loan application will be contacted.  Let those people know that this is a scam, and they can disregard.

* Use Google Voice.  Google Voice is a great replacement voice mail system for just about any phone number you use.  Messages can be transcribed and voice mail recordings can be saved as mp3 files.  

Pro Tip - call the scammers with a Google Voice number before turning off your old phone numbers.  Make sure when you call you identify yourself so they can start up their script.  At any point after they have your information pulled up just hang up.  They will then start religiously calling your Google Voice number.  At this point, you are free to change your regular phone number(s) and enjoy not having these people ever call you again.  (And laugh at the fact these people are basically talking to a brick wall several times a day)

The scammers change their numbers frequently.  Law enforcement used to think it was because the callers ran out of minutes on their prepaid wireless accounts or they were shuttered due to fraud, but now they understand it's simply to evade detection by savvy consumers online.  With the proliferation of VoIP, it's even easier for the crooks to stay a couple of steps ahead of law enforcement.  Below is just a sampling of the 30+ numbers that have been used in recent memory.

1-201-244-7722
1-209-349-7382
1-209-797-2212
1-212-500-0839
1-213-256-0408
1-213-995-3039
1-281-763-0433
1-347-289-3902
1-347-844-6817
1-347-844-6831
1-424-354-4270
1-516-232-8905
1-516-232-8935
1-518-212-0219
1-561-300-8018
1-561-210-4185
1-626-200-4646
1-631-456-4041
1-646-274-1143
1-646-810-8635
1-650-241-4604
1-707-401-4056
1-707-633-2789
1-708-401-0535
1-716-442-2824
1-717-862-4080
1-718-705-8669
1-760-514-0132
1-760-563-5384
1-772-318-4938
1-850-201-1111
1-858-777-1977
1-859-908-2281
1-866-860-4509
1-877-226-7488
1-888-706-7463
1-888-771-9249
1-888-785-4479
1-909-327-4870
1-831-607-9214
1-972-674-3753
1-646-918-5211
1-206-202-4942
1-206-337-7992
1-206-339-8218
1-561-318-0446
1-585-250-8090
1-347-827-0921
1-607-398-0725
1-888-610-5486
1-585-861-9940
1-909-233-7338
1-646-416-9016
1-805-262-6170
1-661-270-6724
1-561-705-0140
1-310-807-0220
1-347-637-6473
1-951-582-4832
1-909-503-0682
1-818-579-7691
1-347-321-6497
1-206-666-3611
1-206-203-0712
1-347-875-8418
1-347-875-9600
1-206-629-9392
1-818-532-9007
1-310-853-3491
1-347-377-7368
1-321-300-4091
1-866-840-2030
1-760-588-2207
1-845-360-0920
1-415-259-5025
1-347-637-6452
1-818-275-4539
1-707-673-9475
1-714-485-9593
1-909-565-4286
1-714-733-5614
1-512-501-3639
1-347-688-9900
1-914-269-4450
1-650-425-1020
1-888-500-2534
1-347-827-3814
1-410-849-9353
1-803-400-8483
1-951-281-4802
1-858-224-8121
1-347-637-6485
1-631-209-6009
1-480-463-1613
1-646-719-9237
1-727-487-5327
1-516-453-9112
1-951-582-4833
1-410-834-2832
1-877-906-8903
1-215-207-9364
1-617-531-2607
1-206-892-3600
1-800-622-0484
1-512-524-3409
1-718-713-8750
1-951-582-4840
1-832-460-8297
1-646-396-7759
1-866-805-8001
1-630-332-0774
1-209-560-6572
1-718-819-7997
1-347-349-7287
1-800-373-1577
1-206-388-4845
1-800-614-2800
1-860-657-9599
1-866-792-9306
1-866-659-4140
1-800-985-9285
1-866-415-5400
1-954-979-5946
1-209-790-3795
1-973-500-3118
1-800-435-4794
1-214-446-9831
1-800-654-7444
1-866-443-6227
1-252-458-7493
1-888-407-7872
1-866-853-4965
1-888-387-1419
1-347-418-0224
1-800-349-9418
1-800-663-0158
1-512-646-2003
1-410-636-1871
1-678-648-4133
1-704-625-2225
1-630-332-0797
1-713-900-5326
1-717-724-4552
1-214-446-5372
1-800-351-8820
1-954-606-5862
1-484-361-4801
1-678-648-4133
1-516-503-7357
1-713-283-9905


So can they really do anything to you?

It's not a simple yes or no answer.  Logic dictates that, if they really wanted to take you for a ride and drain your bank accounts, they already would have.  

So, why haven't they?  

Authorization.  

Why do you think you are being called so much?  Perhaps it is because they like the sound of your voice?  No, they have to have your authorization to take any form of payment from you, period.  The callers know their audience, and that audience is typically a bunch of people that have applied for payday loans in the past.  Most of those people they call couldn't afford an attorney if they wanted one, and are so used to receiving collections calls that so long as they sound like a real collector, they will likely be perceived as one.

Furthermore, they don't even really want to talk to your attorney - that just sounds official and scary enough.  A real attorney would take the callers to task and write them off as two-bit con artists.  The callers need you, in writing, to authorize payment against the fictitious debt they claim you owe.  Go ahead, ask them for proof you owe the debt - more commonly known as verification of debt.  See what they say.  A phone authorization carries very little weight, so if they have something signed by you on file, you are done for - and the callers know that.  That authorization is the only thing these callers are doing by the book, and for good reason.  If they just went all willy nilly and made an ACH debit from your checking account, without your written approval, you could in turn report the transaction as fraudulent to your financial institution.  In about 7-10 business days, you would get the funds returned to your account.  Then the scammers would be up against a bank and their team of lawyers and investigators.  

Bottom line:

If you haven't paid the callers a dime, don't.  If you planned on paying them to shut them up, just don't.  Remember - you are not being contacted by a legally licensed, ethically owned and operated collector.  Read up on the FDCPA - http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/credit/cre27.pdf - and know your rights.

PS--The FBI sent out a Press Release on this scam just last week:

Extortion Scam Related to Delinquent Payday Loans

Washington, D.C.
December 07, 2010  FBI National Press Office
(202) 324-3691

? filed under: Press Release

The Internet Crime Complaint Center has received many complaints from victims of payday loan telephone collection scams. Callers claim the victim is delinquent in a payday loan and must repay the loan to avoid legal consequences. The callers purport to be representatives of the FBI, Federal Legislative Department, various law firms, or other legitimate-sounding agencies. They claim to be collecting debts for companies such as United Cash Advance, U.S. Cash Advance, U.S. Cash Net, and other Internet check-cashing services.

According to complaints received from the public, the callers have accurate data about victims, including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses, employer information, bank account numbers, and the names and telephone numbers of relatives and friends. How the fraudsters obtained the personal information varies, but in some cases victims have reported they completed online applications for other loans or credit cards before the calls started.

The fraudsters relentlessly call the victim?s home, cell phone, and place of employment. They refuse to provide any details about the alleged payday loans and become abusive when questioned. The callers have threatened victims with legal actions, arrests, and, in some cases, physical violence if they do not pay. In many cases, the callers harass victims? relatives, friends, and employers.

Some fraudsters have instructed victims to fax a statement agreeing to pay a certain amount, on a specific date, via a pre-paid Visa card. The statement further declares the victim will never dispute the debt.

If you receive these calls, do not follow the caller?s instructions. Rather, you should:

Notify your banking institutions.
Contact the three major credit bureaus and request an alert be put on your file.
Contact your local law enforcement agencies if you feel you are in immediate danger.
File a complaint at www.IC3.gov.
Tips to avoid becoming a victim of this scam:

Never give your Social Security number?or personal information of any kind?over the telephone or online unless you initiate the contact.
Be suspicious of any e-mail with urgent requests for personal financial information. The e-mail may include upsetting or exciting but false statements to get you to react immediately.
Avoid filling out forms in e-mail messages that request personal information.
Ensure that your browser is up-to-date and security patches have been applied.
Check your bank, credit, and debit card statements regularly to make sure that there are no unauthorized transactions. If anything looks suspicious, contact your bank and all card issuers.
When you contact companies, use numbers provided on the back of cards or statements

http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/paydayloanscam_120710

I just called them back again for my daily laugh...they are still at it. The female answered "Reese Law Firm" and I asked if this was "Willie & Wilson Law Firm" and she said YES. I asked for Ted, or Albert, and she said "who is this??" I told her it was one of the people they are trying to SCAM! I said I was supposed to be arrested everyday for the last WEEK and nobody has shown up! She said "You just have to wait, they are on their way" WAAAHAAAHAA!!

These people are SCUM. Keep calling them and mocking them. They hate it!

I just called the Attorney General's office for Illinois. There are strength in numbers! Call them too. They stated to me in the Identity Theft Department that the calls are bouncing off of towers and originating from Nigeria!! Contact:

Pam LaFeber, Ph.D.
City Clerk
(630) 420-6047
lafeberp@naperville.il.us

and call the Attorney General at:
312-814-3580

I just called the Attorney General's office for Illinois. There are strength in numbers! Call them too. They stated to me in the Identity Theft Department that the calls are bouncing off of towers and orignatingin Nigeria. Contact:

Pam LaFeber, Ph.D.
City Clerk
(630) 420-6047
lafeberp@naperville.il.us

and call the Attorney General at:
312-814-3580

Hi SRoss,

Since the night I received the calls initially, I have not received any more calls. I have call rejection services on my line, and I know they have called on other numbers, but so far, nothing else.

That's funny how you handled them! I did put the fraud alerts on all three of the credit files and I didn't give them bank info, so I think I will be Ok there.

Hairy Johnson....LOL!

Got a call talking about he was from a law firm & some money deposited in my bank acct last month from a cashworld....then gone say that he was gonna have my local police to pick me up!! I'm like, all loans I applied for denied me & only funds going into my acct is direct deposit from IRT!!!! Then when he said he was gone transfer me to a paralegal, he just dialed some numbers in my ear & he got back on tha phone!! Really?? These ppl need to be stopped....

I mad as f***. I'm sitting here and just thinking like did I ever do any payday loan that should equal up to $812.95.Hell no I didn't but they said it was from fees from not paying it back. How the f*** are they doing this s*** and getting away with it. I wish I could find them and retaliate. Thanks everyone from your comments. Anyone else that recieves this don't believe these idiots. They make a living off of scamming people. A***oles.

These criminals have broken several FDCPA federal statues and would be in trouble if they were legitimate.  They are not.  I, for one, would love to help them go back to what ever hellish country they snuck in from!

they said they were going to arrest me at work if i did not pay them $585 yesterday, when i called back the same person i spok eto answered and said they did not know who i was then he put Ted Cummings on the phone and it was the same person who answered the phone. i called back saying i was from a law firm and they hung up.

There is NO real law firm Willie & Wilson, Wilson & Wilson Law Firm or anything else like that in Illinois. SCAMMERS are calling from this number. These are INDIA scammers so there is no law enforcement that can stop them. They will call you, your employer, your friends and family and threaten arrest, bodily harm, etc...always wishing you "good luck for the situation that is going to unfold on you" if you don't pay them hundreds of dollars for a fake payday loan debt you never had. They already have your SSN and bank acct numbers, so close your accts and put fraud alerts on your credit.

The only way to stop them from calling you is to CALL THEM, repeatedly and incessantly, over and over and over. They will beg you to stop. They know me on a first name basis. I harrass them constantly.  Today I asked the guy if "Hairy Johnson" worked for them and he said YES! WAAHAA! I proceeded to inform him what that meant in English. Along with some other choice American insults. That guy HATES me.  But he hasn't called my employer or my cell phone ever again!

I got the same message. People this is a SCAM!!! do not give these people any satisfaction.. they are the scum of the earth and cannot do anything they say they will do.. i suggest when they call that you be as ignorant as possible. and say that you will press charges on them for this fraud.

Don't fall for this lame SCAM! Willie & Wilson, Albert White, Ted, any fake American name he can think of but his THICK INDIAN ACCENT stays the same. Running a lameass scam, threatening people.  Turn the tables and call him incessantly. He HATES THAT!

I got "I wish you luck...for the situation that is about to unfold..ON YOU"  WAAHAAA...little did he know a situation was about to unfold on him!!!  He's got a first rate B on his hands now! I've posted this ALL OVER the internet warning people about this. You google Willie & Wilson, Payday Loan Scam, anything remotely connected with this jerk and you will find my postings on the scam boards.

I love to call him and insult him and generally screw with him. Makes for some good laughs.

There's no legal recourse for AMERICANS because this guy is in INDIA. So all we can do is turn VIGILANTE on him!  Give him a taste of his own medicine! Make him shut down the number just to get rid of all the people who are calling HIM!!!

Payday loan debt SCAMMERS...I got this same line of bullsht from "Albert" and "Ted" (same guy with thick Indian accent) from Willie & Wilson Legal Associates saying I owed $800 to Cash World, which I do NOT. I told the guy to bite me.  Then he called my job. That was it, I had enough and I waged WAR on this assclown. I call him incessantly, everyday a few times a day, just screwing with him. He has begged me to stop bothering him. FAT CHANCE! All he does is call and bother innocent people all day long trying to SCAM THEM! Turn the tables on this assclown and he'll stop bothering you. He knows me on a first name basis now. Try some of these unforgivable Hindi insults....it's hysterical!

http://www.youswear.com/index.asp?language=Hindi

Names Used. Rose, Brandon Watson, Kevin, Roger...
how many split personalities do these people have.

630-332-0770

Called my cell threatening my husband to call them immediately or have his attorney call. The woman did not introduce the name of the company but did say "Oh, by the way, if you don't call me back I wish you good luck on what's to come." WTF is that....a death threat or something? Crazy bit%&!

Some guy name James Williams called my work today and leave a message for me to call them back and when I called him back he said that 760.55 was put in to me checking accout on 6/18/11 and if I did not pay anything then I was going to jail. Will my wife called them and told them that if they want me to go to jail then they need to come and get me because I was not paying any thing on this because it is fraud and she huge up on him.

this number keeps calling my work and my cell. telling me they have my social #

I have been getting the same call. Only her name was Alex Anderson. Same lady who called me before. She gave me the same message about consequences and good luck. The fraud dept at my bank said that they buy the information from people you get loans from online. This is a scam no doubt about it. Never using online anything again.

Same thing just happened to me. I knew it was a hoax. If You Get A Call Please DO NOT BELIEVE THEM !

that number just called and said my attorney needed to call them. they claim i owe money. i told them they where a hoax and they hung up on me. i am contacting my local police dept.

We're calling THEM relentlessly. Everyone just WARN OTHERS! Post it on your FB, Tweet it, whatever you have to do to get the word out so nobody falls victim to this BS! Make sure your parents, grandparents, anyone elderly or naive has been warned about these assclowns!!

SAME THING GONING TO JAIL IF I DON`T CALL BACK

TO S. Ross,

Oh how funny! I want Brett Hart to represent me, LOL!

R.I.P. Macho Man Randy Savage....

TO J. Lane

Does this officer want other people like me to come forward and call him too? I was thinking about calling Officer Clune but I wasn't sure if I should... All my local law enforcement did was take my complaint...Did nothing for me...I want to see these people PAY!

I was called at 5:55 this evening and was told that I need to retain a lawyer because charges have been filed against me. The woman clearly had a foreign accent (probably Indian) and when I told her she was lying she transferred me to a man (again with a foreign accent) who told me that I had a payday loan that i never  paid. I never took a payday loan out however, I inquired about one about 30 days ago. I think my information was sold to someone who is messing with  people.

THESE PEOPLE ARE VERY INCESSANT!  I hung up on them a few times telling them not to call me again, and they called right back. I made a complaint to my local law enforcement and filed a complaint at https://ftccomplaintassistant.gov/. I suggest you do that as well and if you get a call from these people, call the credit bureaus and tell them you  may be the victim of identity theft.

They say they represent the Law office of Wilson & Wilson in IL.

I received a fraudulent call claiming that I needed an attorney to represent me against a case of fraud.  The calls were from Willie & Wilson Law Group. They didnt ask for any money but stated I was being charged with fraud and that they were going to have an warrant issued for arrest at my job. I went to the police and filed a report of harrassment in the jurisdiction in which I work.  I filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission as referenced via email transmission noted below.  I also created police report #25415 with Officer Chris Clune Badge #281, whom can be reached at 732-531-1800.  I expect that Willie & Wilson in Naperville, Illinois, should be thoroughly investigated.  I was given the name Brandon Watson for the number below, although I believe that name to be fraudulent. Legal recourse will be taken if this harrassment does not cease.
The number to be wary of is 630-332-0797

I received a call from this number claiming I owe money for a loan to Cash World.  They claim they have an affidavit and I need to pay $690.85 to clear the matter or they are sending the police to my job.  I never received funds from Cash World and I do not know what they are talking about.  They claim to be a law firm but could not give me any information about the loan I received or the number to company Cash World.  They had my bank name and job information and said I would be kept in jail for 30 days.