I began receiving phone calls approximately two weeks ago from individuals with extremely thick Middle Eastern accents (from IT experience I would guess India).
The first call came at 8:45pm, when I asked the mans name he stated "Sebastian", when I asked what company he was calling for he stated "Cash Recovery" and very rudely informed me that I had a law suit against me for a payday loan that I had taken out online. (Wrong!). I informed him that I had no such loan and disconnected the call.
The next call was from someone (same heavy accent) asking for me by my first name only, when I informed him that there were two people here with that first name and that I would need a last name before I would continue the call he said he needed to talk with the "one that works for (employer name)". When I told him that wasn't good enough he stated my home address and demanded that I tell him if that information was correct or not. When I demanded his name he disconnected the call.
A few days later I received a call at 6:15am, again from someone with the same accent. When I informed him of the time he stated that he was calling from the East Coast then went on to tell me that I had a law suit against me for a payday loan. I basically talked over him until I got a name (this time it was Matt Jones) and an address of where he was located (185 Worhman Ave Brooklyn NY 11233). When I asked the name of the company he worked for he stated "Cash Recovery" (I had him spell it twice). I informed him that it was illegal to make collection calls before 8am or after 9pm and that it didn't matter WHERE he was calling from, what mattered was where he was calling. He finally gave me a "file number" (that no one since seems to have ever heard of) and disconnected the call.
Today I've received 2 calls, the first was from someone who stated his name was Ross Taylor (same accent), when I told him that I was having a great deal of trouble understanding him he passed me off to someone who had the exact same heavy accent who identified himself who began with "This is attorney Curtis Jackson, I have limited time that I can speak with you so it is very important that you listen closely as I will get to the point soon".
I almost feel off my chair laughing, it sounded like a bad middle east version of a Law & Order ransom call... LOL
I gave him the name of my attorney and his contact information at which point he stated "you do not seem to understand, your drivers license, home address, phone number and bank accounts are being investigated". I stated to him in reply "apparently you are the one that doesn't seem to understand that you sound like a complete f*cking moron and I've reported you to the AG, BBB and FTC.
About 20 minutes later I received yet another call from someone stating his name as Eric Johnson from HR. Same accent same story. I hung up the phone.
I did some checking, there is a company named Cash Recovery. They are ligit, they are located in Chicago and the gentleman I spoke with was very helpful. This other group of morons isn't connected to them in any way at all.
Also, the site I was supposedly supposed to have gotten a loan through was paydaytogo.com. This is a search engine for payday loan sites, not an actual loan site.
Names I've been given:
Matt Jones
Sebastian?
Curtis Jackson (Identified himself as an attorney)
Ross Taylor
Eric Johnson (Identified himself as "HR")
Phone numbers I've gathered:
360-205-0092
971-005-5934 (Invalid Number)
202-821-4771
810-677-0071 (Invalid Number)
877-555-7777
347-246-5183
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