Fake payday loan collection scams - Please list new numbers here.

BizLink says the number belongs to a liquor wholesaler--Vintage Sales-- in Kansas City. So the number was definitely spoofed.

I, too, am being repeatedly called by "John Wilson" and "Adam Smith" from the following numbers:
773-741-6484, 214-447-7121, and 240-582-1275. They seem to have all my personal information, which is bad enough, but then to threaten me with arrest, jail time, and making additional threats against my family, friends, and co-workers is just obscene! If there is a way to prosecute these losers, I'd be glad to follow up on it, but it seems like they've got this scam down and have no fears of legal retribution.

I filed a police report for the very same threatening scam and the police said that what these Middle Eastern turds do is set up a dummy pay day loan website and when you fill it out thinking it is legitimate, they have all of your info, including your friends names so that they can harass the crap out of them, too.

They do stop calling after awhile.  I just hang up or say that there is no one here by that name.

For the past week I have received numerous calls from 631-772-9973 since Memorial Day where everything is closed especially law offices.  The caller called me on my cell phone which appeared as 0000 and left an urgent message indicating that I am going to jail if I don't respond immediately and satisfy a $5,000 payday loan.  How could I have a payday loan with no bank account.  Not only did the caller have access to my SS#, address, employment location, but they also knew my State ID number.  When I told the caller I would have my attorney to call him with the number he provided on my cell phone message, he indicated that my attorney needed to call him on the holiday in order to stop the affadavit from being filed in court the next day at 11:00a.m.  Since then they have contacted my job with the same recording as the one I received on my telephone.  I hope that you are reading these comments because I plan to have my attorney validate the Americal PayDay Loan company as a legitimate business and explain how could someone obtain a payday loan without an account?  For the record, my attorney and I already know it's a scam that is about to blow up in Roger's face.

+17144418691 I got a call from this number today and they told me I had seVeral padyloans with cash advance america. They had a very heavy accent souinded like they was from india or the middle eastern.  They had my ssn and dob I called th police and filed a report.

I have been scammed, I have used payday loans in the past and always the same company that I trust.  but on the 20th of May I was already having financial problems we just moved into a rental due to having to put our house up on short sale and we were trying to get our selves together.  I received a call from 1-209-780-4548 or 1-208-780-4548 stating that an arrest warrent was being processed for me and that it was going to be delievered to my job on Monday and this was Friday afternoon.  I could hardly understand the guy but then someone named Nathan Rice got on and told me I had until 3pm before this was processed.  However, the only reason why I believed this was because I remembered seeing in my bank account a refuse to pay something tried to come out of my account and my bank did not pay it around the same time this guy was saying that this cash advance was trying to get money from me for a payday loan I do not remember ever taking out.  So I was paniced and I work at a job where my skills with money is something that I do I work budgets as a part of running a social service agency so this was panic.  So the guy told me to get a pre paid card and send a letter saying that I never ment to defaud this loan and it was miscommunication.  So I did and I cried the whole time doing it with 2 hours to spare until this warrent was processed.  Now I am educated and run a business and I can not believe that I was scammed.  And it didn't really hit me until today when I was contacted again not even 2 weeks later with the same scam but a different number this one is 1-909-233-7338.  I finally contacted an attorney and they are the ones that told me that you can not go to jail for a debt they have to sue you for the money and that it is against the law to even send anything to your place of work.  This is crazy I wish I could get my money back. My son did not get his daycare paid last month due to the 455.00 that I had to come up with.

I was born and raised in New Jersey. But, I've lived in NYC, and Seattle,WA.

I was just called by a 508-375-2918. American Law & Investigation company

I just got the SAME MESSAGE!!!

They've called me six times in three days.  They are stating they are going to have me arrested,publicly shamed, cancel my drivers licenses and social sec #.  I told them they have not provided me the proof of debt in writing which is required by law. Funny they don't know that as they are a LAW firm.  I told them they can't touch me and to stop calling me.  I told them to go ahead and arrest me, take me to court because I will win and sue them.  And, I've already reported them to FBI,SS, and FTC.  THEY HUNG UP ON ME MIDWAY THROUGH MY RANT.  I've been letting all calls go into voicemail and then I save them as proof.  But, I am going to start answering them and immediately disconnecting them.

401-285-0901
916-385-0000
Shawn Black
Matt ?
Law Firm Services

i used to also live in Tacoma

More numbers:
7864419968
7144418691
4178696220

TWO MORE NUMBERS:  (404) 935-9490 AND (404) 935-9487

PLEASE REPORT THESE AND ALL NUMBERS AND PEOPLE TO FTC AND BBB.

Here's the info on these scammers that are calling from re-routed numbers from all over the country...

TELEPHONE COLLECTION SCAM

Updated 8/2010

   * Receiving harassing telephone collection calls threatening Police or legal action?
   * Foreign sounding callers representing themselves as affiliated w/collection, law or government organizations collecting on a long past due payday loan?
   * Not aware of owing any debt & they won’t prove it?

Our office in Florence, Kentucky has received inquiries from confused out of state callers (who have never done business with us, who have been receiving collection calls from an organization claiming to be working for us or a company whose name includes the words U.S. Cash or something similar. They mistakenly or fraudulently allege a balance is owed us, and apparently are engaging in illegal collection practices (as allowed under FDCPA; please Google “Fair Debt Collection Practices Act” for more info). Callers report they typically have foreign accents while using tactics such as implying affiliation with legal or government authorities (use words like: Legal Dept., Federal Investigative Authority, Financial Infraction Dept., Cooper Law Firm). They refuse to provide any proof of the underlying debt, and finally demand outrageous payments be made to New York or Florida addresses to avoid legal or police action.

Our legitimate brick-n-mortar payday loan company, doing business face to face only as U.$. Cash Advance here in Florence, Kentucky (a suburb of Cincinnati, OH) does not do business with residents of other states (certain qualified Cincinnati and SE Indiana residents excepted). Nor have we never done loans online or via the telephone. Therefore, no out of state accounts have been placed with any collection outfit by us.

In rare situations, for our local customers whom we serve, we do find it necessary to employ a collection agency or attorney to enforce contractual agreements with our debtors. For the last several years we have only placed accounts with drs Bonded Collection Systems, a collection agency or Mason, Schilling & Mason, a legitimate collection law firm – both located in the Greater Cincinnati area.

Please be advised however, that there are other loan providers online or those who do business via the telephone (fax) with names sounding much like ours. Authorities have apparently received similar complaints of outrageous third party collection efforts regarding them. There are also online brokers who buy listing priorities for key words from internet search engines so that they can grab searches intended for legitimate loan companies so that they then can attempt to sell the lead. Some of these outfits are respectful & legitimate organizations and some are not. We have searched for our name and found fully functioning websites with our name & location listed along with 20 – 30 other local providers. They do not have permission to do this with us and the KY Attorney General’s office has tracked one such website’s registrant to be domiciled in Russia, while operating from servers located in Shanghai. So….buyer beware – always know who your giving information too:

CFCO Financial, Inc. (the corporation who operates the 1 U.$. Cash Advance store in Florence, KY) has filed a victim’s complaint regarding this potential collections scam and the misuse of our company’s good name with the following authorities:

   * The Kentucky Department of Financial Institutions;
   * The Kentucky Attorney General’s Office Division of Consumer Protection;
   * The Greater Cincinnati Chapter of the Better Business Bureau; and
   * The Federal Trade Commission.

If you are the recipient of harassing collection calls on a debt you do not know about, it is recommended that you too file a complaint against this third party collection organization with your local authorities, your State’s Attorney General’s Office, and the Federal Trade Commission. If your complaint involves internet phishing or other inappropriate online activities the FBI recommends filing an online abuse complaint via their tracking system at: https://complaint.ic3.gov/ctf.aspx These agencies will need the name, address and phone number of the person or collection organization which is attempting to enforce the fraudulent debt from you. The FTC’s number is (877) 382-4357.

Though we regret these fraudulent collection efforts have involved our company name, we can assure you that CFCO Financial, Inc. dba U.$. Cash Advance in Florence, Kentucky is not involved in anyway.

PLEASE DO NOT CALL THE FLORENCE STORE – THIS WEBSITE CONTAINS ALL CURRENTLY KNOWN INFORMATION REGARDING THIS MATTER

Sincerely,
Richard G. Porstner, President

If you've received any harassing calls of this matter, DON'T BE INTIMIDATED AND DO NOT SEND THEM MONEY. Report them to your local authorities, the FTC, your State's Attorney General office, and file a complaint with the FBI with any information you can get to identify these scammers.  Time to throw these lowlife pieces of trash in prison where they belong.

Also make sure you record the names and ALL numbers these scammers are calling you from to create a "web of connectivity" so there'll be nowhere they can hide.