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Mark Dumpson called the Executive Assistant to the President and CEO of my company and told them that he was a process server and was coming to my work to serve me re: criminal charges - fraud, bad checks, attempting to fraud a financial institution. I have an outstanding payday loan that I could not pay. Gave all of this personal information to this person-I've gotten a message every week in my own voicemail-this is the first time he contacted my supervisor. I talked to them once at work and didn't get anywhere when I told them, "Ok if that's true mail me in hard copy form the summons to my HOME address" and I asked them to never contact me at my work again-been calling once a week since, usually on Monday or Tuesday.

This is a criminal extortion scam operating out of India. They are making the calls utilizing VOIP and the names of legitimate firms to make it appear the calls are originating from within the US. There is NO "company" or "debt" and you will NOT be arrested. They are harvesting and/or buying consumers' personal identifying information from unscrupulous websites like the one you may have filled out an application with, and you need to do whatever you can to protect yourself. This includes: Notifying the FTC: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/, placing fraud alerts with all three credit bureaus, notifying your bank and employer and letting these criminals know you are aware they are attempting to extort money for a non-existent debt and have alerted the authorities.

ABC News released an investigative report on this scam in June. The FTC has indicted one of its ringleaders for criminal fraud:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/phantom-debt-co ... 16512428&page=1

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/08/bgm.shtm

Thank you so much for your assistance.