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company deshawn (?) and associates keeps calling saying there are fraud charges against me, i will be served a summons. I know I havent committed fraud! please confirm this is a scam!!!

I received a message on my answering machine tody. Same sort of thing. The woman said she was a paralegal assigned to investigate allegations of criminal theft by deception. And due to the severity of the case I was mandated to call their office. Ext 642 and gave me a case number to refernce. It must be a scam.

This is a version of the you-have-committed-a-crime extortion scam and you are being...
1. charged with fraud or passing bad checks or embezzlement or
2. served with a court summons or arrest warrant or bench warrant or whatever or
3. located in preparation to being served or for a lawsuit or to be arrested or
4. sued for cable TV usage that you've been stealing for years or
5. whatever stupid crap reasons they will think up next.

And you have to...
1. call back with your case number or
2. confirm your address or SSN or whatever so you can be served or your papers can be processed or
3. pay $895 now to avoid paying $5,000 in court or
4. whatever stupid crap reasons they will think up next.

Beware extortion scams come in many flavors and they constantly evolve to stay one step ahead of the law.
The FBI warns about payday loan extortion scams here http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/paydayloanscam_120710 
The BBB has issued several alerts on this scam, just google "bbb.org alert phony debt collector"
Never do what they tell you to do but report them to the Internet Crime Complaint Center http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx , the Federal Communications Commission http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm , the Federal Trade Commission https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/ and your state AG, as appropriate.

They called me about a loan that I hadn't paid 3 years ago, from First Cash Pawn. I'm not denying ever getting loans through them because I have in the past. But they seemed to have alot of my information, and I was also tricked into giving them some of my personal information since they claimed that I hadn't paid it. They were threatening  to sue me and take me to court. I eventually gave in and gave them my bank account information.  When I told my friend about it, he immediately told me that it was a scam...

no it's not a scam.. it's just someone from a debt collections agency trying to collect money from you that's all..  I thought the same thing too when they told me that I was going to be taken to court and found out it was a bill collector saying they're from an attorneys office..

It's absolutely a scam. they would call u 10 times in a roll to get ur attention. And the fact is, they cant get u to a court. Ppl who get this call should play a plank on them since they have this evil spirit to fool u around.

I recieved a call from deshawn assc saying that iff i dont pay a certain amount to them by sept they will put a bench warrant on me and could get 5 years in prison  for canceling a ck i wrote over 3 years ago

If you had a bench warrant on you, a sheriff, constable or police dept would have already been at your home the second they heard your voice on the phone and they wouldn't give you an advance warning about it. I suspect the people running these scams have several bench warrants themselves and are bouncing from hotel and house to house on stolen ids and stolen money. Sooner or later...fill in the blank

Take it from me, I've been "in the system" and I've seen every kind of scum imaginable. I wonder if any of these punks have the skills to hack the ITI phone system.

And you believed them?

So is this a scam? bc i did cancel the ck but this was 3 years ago and they knew to who the company i canceled it to  so wat do i do now they have my bank info

Deshawn must be on the run. I think I saw you on a Greyhound bus from Philly to Stroudsburg, running your little game with you girl while selling pills and weed. I think I know who is behind a portion of these scams. I'm almost positive based on the locations of the cell numbers. I could be wrong. I really don't care.

I saw Deshawn in Scranton, Pa. I used to date him.

This is a collection agency.
They handle financial instutution debts. IE - check loans, low balance credit card
payments under $500.00

The case numbers they give at the call onset are not true case numbers, but in actually
"In house" collection account numbers.