325-480-8866

They called my cell and told me i was being investigated for Check fraud, I told them impossible because i dont even need checks. The Companys Name was WSA and the women that called her name was Candice Richardson. However when i tried to google the companies name i was unable to find anything

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation's consumer protection agency, is warning consumers to be on the alert for scam artists posing as debt collectors. It may be hard to tell the difference between a legitimate debt collector and a fake one. Sometimes a fake collector may even have some of your personal information, like a bank account number. A caller may be a fake debt collector if he:

•is seeking payment on a debt for a loan you do not recognize;
•refuses to give you a mailing address or phone number;
•asks you for personal financial or sensitive information; or
•exerts high pressure to try to scare you into paying, such as threatening to have you arrested or to report you to a law enforcement agency.

If you think that a caller may be a fake debt collector:

•Ask the caller for his name, company, street address, and telephone number. Tell the caller that you refuse to discuss any debt until you get a written "validation notice." The notice must include the amount of the debt, the name of the creditor you owe, and your rights under the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
If a caller refuses to give you all of this information, do not pay! Paying a fake debt collector will not always make them go away. They may make up another debt to try to get more money from you.•Stop speaking with the caller. If you have the caller's address, send a letter demanding that the caller stop contacting you, and keep a copy for your files. By law, real debt collectors must stop calling you if you ask them to in writing.
•Do not give the caller personal financial or other sensitive information. Never give out or confirm personal financial or other sensitive information like your bank account, credit card, or Social Security number unless you know whom you're dealing with. Scam artists, like fake debt collectors, can use your information to commit identity theft – charging your existing credit cards, opening new credit card, checking, or savings accounts, writing fraudulent checks, or taking out loans in your name.
•Contact your creditor. If the debt is legitimate – but you think the collector may not be – contact your creditor about the calls. Share the information you have about the suspicious calls and find out who, if anyone, the creditor has authorized to collect the debt.
•Report the call. Contact the FTC and your state Attorney General's office with information about suspicious callers. Many states have their own debt collection laws in addition to the federal FDCPA. Your Attorney General's office can help you determine your rights under your state's law.

http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0258-fake-debt-collectors

Hello; I received a very threatening message from someone whose name was given as " Agent Charlie Ford in association with the Dept of Justice."
He said there was" an affidavit of fraud filed on your driver's license and social security number. This may lead to a suspension of your driver's license and/or a warrant for your arrest. Please call and give the reernce case no......................."

I also googled this company and could find nothing...also they had the nerve to call my WORK and leave a message on their answering machine!!  Thank goodness for good bosses...I believe this to be bogus I have not had a checking account in years.  

I received a very threatening message from someone whose name was given as " Agent ....in association with the FDIC Fraud Dept.."
He said there was" an affidavit of fraud filed on your driver's license and social security number. This may lead to a suspension of your driver's license and/or a warrant for your arrest. Please call...

IF anyone has more info please post I am considering turning this over to my local DA's office.

These crooks called my wife and had her scared out of her mind telling her that she would be arrested when she got home with my two young daughters. They said they werr a federal agent and she had an hour to come up with 1500.00 or she would be arrested and that the call was a courtesy call and her one last chance or she would go to jail for several months. My wife in a panic called her uncle who sent the money before calling me which i have promptly had him call his credit card company to cancel payment hopefully in time! Should be ok though it has literally only been 10 minutes. THIS WOULD NOT EVEN BE LEGAL IF THEY WERE REAL FEDERAL AGENTS WITH REAL DEBTS!! THEY NEED TO BE REPORTED IMMEDIATELY TO YOUR LOCAL DA AND THE DA WHERE THEY ARE LOCATED!!! I HAVE TO CHECK AGAIN BUT I THINK THIS ONE SAID ABIELENE , TEXAS. IM ABOUT TO REPORT THEM WHEN DONE HERE!!!

Man called and left a message re/ bad check about another person an said I would we had been involved in check fraud. This number is not attached to any one or any company. They need to be stopped before they hurt someone.

I received a call just now from 325-480-8866. The lady asked me to verify that I was the person they were calling for. After I verified it was me, she stated that she was from the Federal division of fraud and that she had some important information about fraud that had been filed on my social security number. She said she would transfer me to someone that could give me more details. I waited on the line about 5 minutes. I immediately got on the computer and saw this is a scam. I hung up. They called back with a voicemail that said there was" an affidavit of fraud filed on your driver's license and social security number. This may lead to a suspension of your driver's license and/or a warrant for your arrest. Please call... This call was from Abilene, Tx. After they called me a 3rd time, I was asked if I was available to speak with the financial crimes investigator, Mr.Segal, at this time and I replied that no I am not and I am in the process of reporting them to the DA's office. I told her to not call me again. What a bunch of crap..they need to be arrested for this type of fraud. Well they haven't called back yet. Hopefully they got the message.

I reported them to the FTC. Everyone should do the same.

I have reported them to the FTC. They gave me a reference number if I need to provide additional information. We all should report them.

Wow! I just got the same call with the same exact line about my DL being suspended, affidavit of protest, blah blah blah from Charlie Ford & actually fell for it. Robert Segal sounds so legit on the phone. He said I needed to come up with $2500 or there would be criminal charges filed against me. Even said I'd be charged with a "felony" I was like, a what?He wouldn't even let me hang up, put me on a "private line" so I could make some phone calls to see if I could borrow $500 right then & there so my case would be "put on hold" until I could come up with the rest. When I went back to the line he was "on another call" as I was holding I decided to google the #. So glad I did. I read the first comment & hung up. They really had me scared. Who do we call to report these people? I did the same thing; googled WSA & "federal crime complaints center" and nothing. Freakin jerks!!

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Man these people are [***]. My son tried to pay them some of the money they called for and they wouldnt accept it unless he had it all. Now I am having to pay his court fees and legal fees on my fixed income. They would not even work with him and now he is being prosecuted. [removed:lang]them. Now my son has to do time and has lost his job over this. This isnt right that they can do this.

My boyfriend got a call at 2:00 p.m. today. He usually gets calls from foreigners that are trying to scam him and he hangs up. Well today the caller ID was from Texas and he answered and a guy came on the phone saying he was a Detective and ran a back ground check on him and found him at our current address and said there was a warrant out for his arrest that goes out at 5:00 p.m. So he listened what the guy had to say. The guy said his name was Kevin Gerrett, he gave him the number (325-480-8866) and the Ext.# 200. His badge # 56987. He told him the case was regarding check fraud and that the payment was 6,000+ and that they have a system called ADR. I looked it up online. He said he can set up payments off 200$ out of every check until 1,500 (a reduced price through there company) is paid off and that will wipe out the owed money. So my boyfriend gave him our debit card number to set up the payments and the guy said after each payment, we will get an email with the receipt. When we call the number it sends us to a Police office in Texas, but we looked it up online, the number, the office, everything and we can't find anything proving that it is real. My boyfriends ex wife wrote bad checks years ago in his name and now he has to pay the consequences and says he won't go back to jail, that he will kill himself before he goes back there. He was in there for self defense and got out, but never wants to go back.
The Guy sounded American and new everything about him and ran background check and has his history of debt, and the company hired him to find him to collect this debt for check fraud. The guy said my boyfriend can spend up to two years or more in prison if its not paid and wants it's paid he can sue his ex wife for check fraud and signing his name illegally. The only thing we can find on this guy is a website called www.snellinginvestagation.com and it has the guys name on it and his biography.

You simply tell this fraudulent POS to put his claims in writing and put them in the mail. As per federal law under the FDCPA. NOT E-mail or fax.
The scamming piece of effluent will refuse or make excuses. Case closed.....he's a FRAUD!
Be Safe. Be Aware.
Gunnar

Out of all the posts on this you are the only one who feeds into this.

This company called my parents' house yesterday afternoon and left a message on their machine stating that I was being investigated for depository account fraud, and that if I didn't take care of this my license would be revoked and there would be a warrant for my arrest. My husband blocked his number and called, only to get a generic VMAIL. I called this morning doing the same thing and got a different V mail when they should have been open. Before I called I Google the number trying to get any information I can. I called the Sheriff's Dept in my area and they said I can make a claim with them. Which is what I am doing now.

this people called me and said the same thing. I kept tellng them that I was in the highway and could not understand they told my that they did not care and that I need to pay or go to jail those were my only options. I eould like to know what can I do or what o should do.

look up on here the other number they are calling with I guess out of Nevada now 775-636-7291...we got this number called us Amber Flanagan same story u guys have .look on our page....

I just received the same message from chief amber Flannigan of wsa

I just received the same call from WSA saying that an affidavit of Fraud on my DL and ssn and that If I don't call them back soon they would expedite my case to Los Angeles where I live but they were calling from a Colorado number! I found no credible website either. I tried calling back and goes to voicemail as well. Something ain't right

(970) 497-4607
Montrose, CO

The number ^^^

I got a call from this 970-497-4607 Saying it was Robert French and to call back at ext:200 because this call was a legal matter.

Don't call it back its a debt collector and if they find out where you live they will serve you