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

Do they have bad English and funky accents? If so, they are most CERTAINLY a scam. If you find their number listed here, SCAM.  Also, private couriers do NOT serve papers, that would be a process server and they don't call you first and tell you what time they are coming. They just show up.

These people are morons.

I Recived a call from my work saying an officer Jack Smith from 626-380-3473  want's me to call him SCAM?

My boss and I have been getting calls at work from places in California, Georgia, Florida and my most recent one today from New York.  We work for an installment loan place and get the calls on a weekly basis.  Todays call came from:
718-819-7997    
They claim to be from Cash Advance, Jose said I owed him!
Sad part about it, he had everything of mine but my account number....

I got a call from my work saying a Officer Jack Smith called from 626-380-0473 saying I need to call him

Request documentation from him before paying anything (snail mail, with return addresses, ext..) .. If they start threating you, as far as telling you they will put you in jail.... For sure a scam then!

If a debt collector will not provide you with proof that you owe, then there isn't any and it is a SCAM!
I was told a private courier was showing up between 2 & 3 today to serve me with papers - guess what? nobody showed up. And yes I found their phone # on here. Don't let them scare you and don't give them any money!

805-619-0942. These people just called me stating I owe them $250 and what bank will I be using to pay it back. They wanted an apology letter also. He threatened me that he was sending someone to my office to arrest me. How do I keep them from calling my work? He said it was for Cash Advance.com. I do not owe them anything! Please help how to stop this

I called 626-380-0473 and told them to send me proof to my email that I owe a payday loan and they said that they can't that it is going through court. so i told them that i know that this is a scam and that i notified the local police and the guy said ok  and hung up. Sounds like a SCAM to me

I got a voice message last week from John Marshall, this week it is from Alex White from 646-810-8677. The message is always the same, from everything I have read. I don't have the time or strength to deal with them, so I never answer the calls. I am thinking about getting a new number, I think it is worth it. My 11 year old heard one of the messages and is very upset. That was when I did a reverse lookup and found all these people that have also been called. It is too bad that there is not more we can do. If anyone has any suggestions on how to stop the calls, please share.

Besides the weird English, these yoohoos don't know much about US geography.  I've been getting calls from all kinds of weird numbers for the past three years.  Today, I got a call from I don't know where (Mumbai?)  but caller ID was 'Joseph Goldberg 509-218-2562.'  So, I looked up Joseph Goldberg and the phone number.  I found the number on an early September listing for a washing machine for sale on Craigslist.  This number was for Kennewick, WA.  Joseph Goldberg left a message telling me that I was in 'danger,' that 'I would need a lawyer to keep me out of jail.'  I found Joseph Goldberg, lawyer, on the internet in Washington (DC).  I believe that the web site was a scam because there was so much ambiguity regarding which Washington the author of the page meant - although the phone number for this so-called office had an area code 202, not 509, it still wasn't absolutely clear that the author of the page knew this, that 202 was DC on the east coast and 509 was in WA state on the west coast.  What a bunch of knuckle draggers.  So, add 509-218-2562 to the list.  And, I 'd been getting a lot of hangups from 509-590-2805.  The last one was seconds before 'Joseph Goldberg' with an Indian accent called.  I filed a complaint with the FCC for these numbers.

I saw one comment, wish I knew where, reporting a PDL scammer claiming to call from the "City of California". That and the alias names they borrow from Western celebrities, sports figures, and cartoon characters tend to deflate their brutish attacks.

In fairness, the average American is not much better at geography. To some, the smallest state is "Road Island" and Africa is a country.

I had a lady call and tell me that they a filing a law suite againt me. What i dont know. She told me to call the number and talk to a guy at the number. The number you wrote about is the number she gave me .626-384-3250.. Why are they doing this.

They are trying to get you to pay off the fake loan - to them.  They think you are dumb enough to wire them lots of money.  Obviously they are wrong.  But some people are stupid enough to fall for it.

I received a call from 213-769-4746 stating that I had defaulted on a payday loan from Advance America and requesting my attorney's information. When I requested correspondence to be mailed to me-the responder stated that e-mails had been sent to me to my email address regarding the default. I simply told them to do whatever they needed to do because I do no have any payday loans and hung up!

I had a guy call me named henry from a 619-863-4345 stating my friend forged my name on a document to get a payday loan for 500.00.  He then said I was going to get a summons to come to a california court.  I screamed at him and hung up.  They called me back a few times and then stopped after I told them I was going to call the police.