I was at work so I was answering the phones, the guy comes on with a heavy accent and asks for me. I tell him that it was me and waited for him to tell me why. All the time the phones are ringing and people are needing my attention. I am getting frustrated because I need to be working not talking to this guy. I tell him I can't understand him and that he is going to have to repeat everything. This goes on for several minutes with him telling me he is "Officer Ronnie Williams" with Department of Law and Investigation. Number one. I majored in criminal law and attended Police Academy and I've never heard of this before. Number two. Ronnie... Really? With that accent?
Ok, so I get my supervisor to man my station as I talk to this guy to try and figure out what so-called fraud charges are being brought against me.
He tells me that cashnet marketing is filing criminal charges on me for getting a payday loan and not paying it back. I said I never got a loan. He said if I didn't comply that in 48 hours there was going to be someone at my house. Well, he had the last 4 digits of my social security number, he had my mother's home address and he had my work email address and my work phone number. HOW??? Well, I had applied and gotten a payday loan through another company. I can only assume this is a third party payday loan finder that sold my information including my social security number to this guy.
He tells me not to interrupt him and to listen to the different charges against me. I said ok, tell me. Once again, I cannot understand him. He is speaking with a thick middle eastern accent. Of course, who else would do something like this?
I tell him, you know what? Give me your company name and address and I am calling the better business bureau. Well he starts getting madder and says I can file charges against the company all I want but when I am done I will have paid upwards of $3,000 for my mistake. That I will lose my job, that I will never find work again, that the money will go against my credit (big whoop, I have no good credit anyway) I am starting to notice that he is full of it by this time. I said if you are from a Federal Agency send me a certified letter then. Go on, send me one. He goes off in some tirade I can't even understand and hangs up on me.
I called my loan company and verified with them (americashadvance.com) that my loan was fine and that many, many people have been getting this same call and not to worry but to check my credit report to make sure these people aren't stealing my identity. Geesh. If you want all my bad credit go for it morons! HAHA.
I called him back. This officer Ronnie. I told him the biggest mistake he made was to tell me that I was going to lose my job, HAHAHAHA! My manager laughed at him too!
I live in Odessa, Texas, my name is Julia.
The phone number (New York) this guy gave me and answered when I called him back was:
585-331-8620
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