I received a call at work from Rachel Brown who identified herself as an employee of CIL, and who informed me that I was being sued in criminal court for several "criminal" charges. Apparently, I borrowed money from a payday company (never was told the name of the company) and when they tried to debit the 300.00 from my account, they were told there were insufficient funds in my account. THEREFORE, it was necessary to press CRIMINAL charges, by the way, I even have a bogus criminal docket number OS21020430 filed somewhere, according to them... I asked them to give me details of the transaction, when it had occured, etc. - she said sometime around July or August. I told her that was impossible, that she was either contacting the wrong person, or pulling a scam. What WAS disturbing is that they had the last 4 digits of my bank account number and the name of by Bank... I was firm with her and told her she made a mistake, so she gave me to her supervisor, who was a male, did not identify himself, spoke with a thick Indian accent, and immediately started threatening and yelling at me, saying I was going to be arrested and going to jail if I didn't wire him money or give him my account information. I calmly told him to wait one moment, because I wanted to record the conversation... He got even more upset, so I told him he would have to speak with my attorney. He continued to yell and said to have my attorney call him. Of course the number is not a working number, when I tried to call it. The background noise when I was speaking to the supervisor was of lots of people with foreign accents talking and yelling on the phone. He finally hung up on me and I did call a pay day company that is legit (paydayone) and is one who I have done business with and confirmed with them that they were not the ones trying to contact me through CIL. They said they had heard of the scam and appreciated my calling them - they are looking into seeing if they are being targeted by this group. I then contacted out local police department and spoke to a detective who took the information and is posting it on the police website. He is also going to wait to see if anyone else calls about this group. Unbelieveably, Rachel Brown called me the next day and asked me if I remembered her and why she was calling. I informed her that I did (I was very calm and polite) and let her know that I had contacted the police department and that I had recorded the conversations that I had with her and her supervisor. I then said that the our local and state authorities had been alerted to their scam, so it was in her best interest to not call me again and if she did, I would continue to record the conversation and work with the police in trying to find out where they are working from. I have not heard from her since. These scams are scary, but DO NOT give in... If you know you are in the right and that you don't owe any money to any company, please contact your local authorities.
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