My cell phone got a call from an unfamiliar are code. I rejected the call. Rarely do these calls result in voice mail. This one did. With a recent death in the family, and an out of town trip to the funeral coming up, I thought this may somehow be related, and listened to the message.

I cannot certify this has been transcribed with 100% accuracy, but this is as close as I can get without wasting a lot of time:

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"Hi, my name is Anna Meyers and I'm with the fraud alert (unintelligible) worthless check division. I have an individual by the name of "Cheryl Brazil."  (mumbled/partly unintelligible) verification. Your name came up as an affiliate of this individual, which is why I'm trying to contact you now, to see if you may or may not know them. If you could go ahead and give me a call back (unintelligible -- maybe "about this") immediately this is my direct line 913-586-0334 in regards to account number, or case number 569748. Thank you.
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Immediately, I noticed a few problems:
1) No bank was mentioned.
2) No name (Neither mine nor my wife's.) was mentioned, for an intended recipient.
3) The person named in the message is completely unknown to us.
4) We never use our checking account to write checks. Online, we direct the bank to send checks to pay bills, etc. It would be hard for anybody to have a handwritten check from us, since we never write any. I wouldn't know where to start looking, to find a blank check.
5) NOBODY ELSE HAS MY PHONE NUMBER. Wife, kids, and 2 or 3 very close friends; that's it. This cell phone number is never given out to anyone.
6) If my name came up as an "affiliate," that does not explain how the number was obtained. Plus, Anna doesn't seem to know my name.

At the time it came in, listening under less than ideal circumstances, I thought the message purported to be about one of our accounts. So, I went to the bank within an hour. Nothing on any of our accounts to explain the call. The bank doesn't have my cell phone number, though it has others for us.

I can only conjecture (And have, to some extent, in another post on another site.) as to the truth behind this call, but there is no reason for me to believe the call is legitimate.

Whatever the reason for the call from 913-586-0334, I believe it is, at the very least, suspicious. People mis-dial numbers, but for it to happen enough to produce multiple posts here suggests otherwise, in this case.

Waiting in a restaurant for my wife and a friend to arrive, my cell phone went off. Figuring it was my wife, I was puzzled to see 913-586-0334 in the Caller ID. I hit reject, then thought nothing more of it as my wife and friend arrived. Then, something unusual. Voice mail. Most spammers and telemarketers and others placing illegal calls to cell phones won't leave messages.

This message was not easy to understand because the lady mumbled, slurred her words together, and did not articulate. Seemed to be something about "check fraud," and mentioned the name of someone I never heard of. The background noise sounded like a boiler room.

I went into the men's room, where it would be quieter. This made it a little easier to understand the words -- but not the message. I had my wife listen in the quiet hallway, and it didn't make sense to her, either. We both listened two or three times.

1) No bank was mentioned.
2) No name (Neither mine nor my wife's.) was mentioned, for an intended recipient.
3) The person named in the message is completely unknown to us.
4) We never use our checking account to write checks. Online, we direct the bank to send checks to pay bills, etc. It would be hard for anybody to have a handwritten check from us, since we never write any. I wouldn't know where to start looking, to find a blank check.
5) NOBODY ELSE HAS MY PHONE NUMBER. Wife, kids, and 2 or 3 very close friends; that's it. This cell phone number is never given out to anyone.

Since we were a short distance from the nearest branch of our bank, I drove down there after our meal. First question: "What phone  numbers do you have for us?" Two  numbers -- appropriate for them to have -- and NOT MY CELL PHONE. That pretty much answered my next questions.

No unusual activity on any of our accounts. No fraud alert . . . no reason to believe the call had any validity, with respect to our accounts. Suspicion confirmed.

I'm not sure why some posts are marked as bogus, so I don't know how to prove this one is valid. I do still have the phone message and the caller ID information, if I knew where/how to submit them. Given the phone number and the "case number 569748" in the message, it seems like anyone could call them and figure out if this is a phishing effort, or simply a fishy effort by some semi-legitimate, but unprofessional, outfit.

Sitting here where it's quiet and there's no urgency, I did replay the message a couple of times, and realized it wasn't necessarily claiming to be from my bank, or about any account of mine. This is not an exact transcription of the message, but it is as close as I can come without wasting a lot of time:

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"Hi, my name is Anna Meyers and I'm with the fraud alert (unintelligible) worthless check division. I have an individual by the name of "Cheryl Brazil."  (mumbled/partly unintelligible) verification. Your name came up as an affiliate of this individual, which is why I'm trying to contact you now, to see if you may or may not know them. If you could go ahead and give me a call back (unintelligible -- maybe "about this") immediately this is my direct line 913-586-0334 in regards to account number, or case number 569748. Thank you.
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Envelope information:  today at 1:30 p.m. new message from 913-586-0334 34 seconds.

On reflection, it's interesting that she refers to "Cheryl" as "this individual," and "them." May not mean anything, but it's a bit curious.

This phone has been the target of a series of phone calls from Portfolio Management. This company purchases written-off debts for pennies, then tries to harass the debtors into paying them, long after the expiration of all legal recourse they might otherwise have. The various reports of people being threatened with jail, etc. and characterizing the calls as being from a debt collector makes me wonder if the calls are related. I have no reason to believe they are, but the timing is interesting. As is the fact I have had this number for ten years, and in that time there has not been any opportunity for any commercial entity to obtain it.

Plus, of course, the fact I pay my bills. One day, I may get around to calling their 800 number to see what it's all about. Or not.

My daughter got a call on her cell phone & they left a msg for my other daughter to call them back b
before 5 oclock or they were going to have a warrant for her arrest and that she would be arrested. She has tried to call the number and has left several message's with the number they need to reach her at. They have not called the number she left for them to reach her instead they called the number she was calling from when she left the message's and the phone she called from was her friends cell phone and she left to go home and when they called the cell phone bck she explained the situation andthe people have yet to call the phone number she left so they can reach her. I guess they dont listen to  their voicemail and when my daughter found out they cld the cell phone and started trying to reach them she only gets voicemail and it is now after 5.

It sure sounds like a scam to me!  Nobody gets put in jail for not paying back a loan.  Debt is a civil, not criminal matter.  It is also a violation of the FDCPA for a debt collection company to discuss the debt with anyone else but the one who supposedly owes, so they've just broken the law by telling your mother about it.  If you speak to this idiot again, try to get her to give you a mailing address.  Then you can send her company a certified-mail cease-communication letter as well as a debt validation demand letter.  If you do think you owe such a debt, make them prove they are the correct legal owners of the debt.  (I'll bet they aren't!!)  Your attorney will be able to advise further, and much better than I can.  Good luck to you.

I also heard from this lady. I am a 40-year-old woman and she called my mom telling her that I am going to jail if I do not call her. My mom told her she is very sick and does not need to hear about my problems and that she should be trying to contact me. Patricia told her that I owe $600 to a payday loan and if I do not call her within 24 hours they will arrest me., I am an adult so she should not be telling my mother or anyone else anything about me.  I don't know if this is a scam or not but I am contacting my attorney.

same person called me regardin info on my x girfriend. I asked her how she got my number, she was very mean. Then I call my x girfriend and she said it was a scam. I have the message saved on my phone although Patricia denied everything she said. I called back to asked to please keep me out of this and she rudely called me me a bipolar and told me to take my medication and to get a life I told her she will be hearing from my attorney.  If My ex girfriend is out there and she is commiting fraud, and writting bad checks why is this lady(patricia) calling Me.

saying i owe money for bad checks

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my husband went to jail. i thought it was a scam or something but it was true. it totally there call if the want to prosecute or make civil.

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I  got a call from a lady who said she was patricia green she was looking for my husband. she had all his information. Although we did write the check i didnt believe her. i told her to kiss my a** and my hubands too. My husband was arrested and it was true. I tried to call her back to apologize but she was very mean about it. moral of this is there are scams but this was true . to evaluate scams is if you know you did the things they say you did it cant be a scam. im serious . my husband was arrested for the check

Got a phone call from a patrica grern saing i owe 710 for a bad check and said if i didnt pay it i was going to jail.

I got a call a week ago, investigator James said there was a check fraud case against me, but couldn't give me any information.

FTC warning on fake debt collectors  http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0258-fake-debt-collectors

Said her name was patrica green and they want 829.00 for a bad check or they putting a warrent out for myarrest...

Saying i owe them money