Often, these scammers illegally access your credit reports or use public folders to give them more information about you in an attempt to get you paid and harass your loved ones. Don`t fall for it. Require them to provide you with their website and physical address so you can write to them to validate the debt. If not, tell them: 1) not to call you back, 2) that you believe they are scammers, and 3) that you reported them to the FTC and CFPB. Regardless of the technology used, fraud is almost always the same – threats from a litigation server that comes to your home or work and serves you a subpoena or other court order. The lie that you might be able to “avoid” this by calling them back comes just to get the consumer to call them quickly. In fact, no prosecutions have been filed. In Oklahoma, consumers can check for themselves and search for court records in www.oscn.net, the Oklahoma Supreme Court network, and the scammer makes it particularly compelling by providing your address and social security number, both of which could (possibly illegally) come from your credit report. They certainly violated the FDCPA, but it`s the down-to-earth collectors living in the basements you could never find to sue them. They tend to move quickly to find unsuspecting consumers who aren`t aware of the scam and will pay. If you receive a false subpoena, verify that it is a forgery and then report it. It`s illegal in most states. For example, California Penal Code 527 PC is the California law that criminalizes a person selling, giving, printing, publishing, or distributing a false court order.
The voicemail continues: “If we do not hear from you, an arrest warrant will be issued on your behalf.” Don`t fall for it! If you think you`ve been called by a scammer, talk to a consumer advocate like Param0unt Law. Many lawyers who are a great lawyer do not even know about this type of scam. In fact, many scammers will even ask to speak to your lawyer and lie to them too! It is very important to correctly identify a fraudster from a legitimate debt collector. If you need assistance, please contact us. If things were normal, you wouldn`t have thought twice before calling the number and telling them they must have the wrong person. Well, you never know. I agree that it`s best not to call and see if they email you something. You`d think that if they could find your friends` phone numbers, they could find your address when they`re looking for you and not someone else. A viewer received this voicemail and returned the call, only to be scammed of $2,000. The woman thought the call was legitimate and paid the scammers by taking the $2,000 gift card numbers she had purchased. I received a phone call and a message today saying that this was an urgent matter and that a complaint had been filed against me.
They were very vague – they told me I should contact “the company” and provided a phone number, but did not say the name of the company or who filed the complaint, or other information. Is it some kind of scam? I usually ignore news like this, but I don`t want to do it when I have legal problems. I have a lot of debt, so if it`s legitimate, it`s really the only thing I can assume is related to it. I searched for the phone number in Google and didn`t get any specific information. I guess if it`s some sort of legitimate law firm, then the number lookup should direct me to their website or some sort of online presence. If it is legitimate, has anyone else here ever experienced this? What must I do? Thank you for your help:) If you need to be served, do you think the person providing the service would call you before you used the service? Who would be at home or at their employer`s house? Have you also tried to contact your employer personally, as they threatened? I bet you`ll never see a service processor, either at home or at your workplace. Service processors will never call you to notify you that you are being served. Instead, they show up and serve you. In addition, they never call your friends to tell them that they have papers to serve and why. They would simply ask your friends where they can find you.
If you want to be sure, search for a case under your name on the website of the county court where you live. If no case arises, that should tell you what the situation is. If your district court does not allow online business search, call the clerk and ask, the staff will tell you. So yes, we think it`s a scam because what they say doesn`t follow the process of running the courts and prosecutions. You are free to call the number and tell them you want to be served on the steps of the courthouse and see how they behave. A real process server will take a day and an hour and will be ready to do it (because its performance is based on service to people). A scammer will oppose it. This will tell you what you are dealing with. So I got calls from scammers for a while, but in the last few months, maybe 4-5 months, they stopped. Just yesterday, I received a voicemail from a woman.
I copied the voicemail from the transcript, so some words may be wrong, but that gets the message across, I think. I got this a few days ago and it seemed so legitimate, but nothing came when I looked up the number, so I used the first 7 digits instead of the full number and found other people complaining about phone calls regardless, don`t be intimidated by a debt collector or a fake debt collector. Ask them questions and force them to prove your legal responsibility for the debt. This may mean asking them for proof of an original contract you signed. As I said, for me, the gift was that they contacted my friends and told them nothing but a callback number and a file number. I never asked where I was or how I could find myself. I thought they thought that if my friend called me panicked, I would believe him and make him look more real. I just told them to ignore it and block the number. I mean, we definitely “did something wrong” by having outstanding debts that weren`t paid. And the message said that their voicemail was recorded to me as an official notice that they had contacted me about it.
The weird thing is that they said the complaint was against my spouse, but it doesn`t really make sense because they called my phone and most of our debts are in my name. His only debts are medical debts. Unfortunately, if they are just night scammers, even if they have violated the FDCPA, due to the extreme difficulty of finding such scammers (many are probably offshore or overseas), there is little Paramount law or any other consumer protection attorney can do for you. Reporting them to your local police department, FTC, CFPB, and OK AG office is your best option. Please file a complaint against the collection agency with the CFPB here. I recommend you file both complaints to try to eliminate the scammers! The government contact catches your attention. Criminals know this and use the threat of government action to incite individuals to commit acts that lead to theft. To trick victims into recalling or revealing personal information, these fraudulent messages indicate that they have an “urgent” message about “important personal matters” or “serious allegations” and that failure to respond may result in arrest or action against you. My friends, it was copied and pasted from the transcript into my voicemails. You know, iPhones (and maybe androids, I`m not sure) now have a transcript written under the play button of a single voicemail left on your phone.
