FTC Gets Court to Halt Phony Payday Loan Broker

That's hilarious..."download an arrest"! That would be very amusing to me, as I've never seen an arrest take place digitally.

I just took the biggest ѕhⅰt of my life.  My аѕѕhоⅼе is burning.

Hi,
Just a question about the payday loan thing.  I knew I had read somewhere on 800Notes about the Payday loan thing and the courts putting a stop to it.  I have gotten 2 calls in the last month or so from a company OFFERING me a payday loan at a discounted interest rate.  I don't think this is the same thing but does anyone know if these guys are running a scam or is it just a rip off loan?

They need to win a free trip to the Florida Everglades.

Don't worry folks, they moved right on over to the Goldman Sachs Asian Derivatives Desk and are making even more moola scamming more people than they had ever imagined. And with bonuses too.

He is a fraud and scammer from India. Telling us to transfer money. He operate from India and his Indian Phone No. +918130704305. He is Delhi, India

I got a call from someone who said they were Officer Reed. His accent was horrible. He said that if I didn't pay my pay day loan back I would be arrested.+My caller ID said it was from Florida. I was so angry I didn't think about getting the information first. I just told him I never ever had a pay day loan and was not going to ever get one. I told him I had the telelphone number and if he ever ever called again I would SEND the police after him and hung up. Then it dawned on me I was too hasty I should have gotten the info from him before I chewed him out. But they never called again. And then I thought they knew my name called my telephone number which is listed in my sons name. So how did the get this info. I called the police and they said they couldn't do anything especially since it was out of state.I still get angry thinking of this scam. How many older people get scared, don't have a pay day loan and would never get one are scammed out of money by these crooks.

BTW There is no such agency as the "Defaulters Agency"....its all a scam.  If you ever applied for any type of loan on-line, whether it be a payday loan, car loan or even some credit cards, your information is bundled and sold, usually includes your full name, home address and social security number.  They utilize this information against you to sound legitimate.  I made the mistake of trying to get an auto loan on-line 5 years ago, have moved to a different state in 2012 and still get harassing phone calls and emails...I have blocked over 470 telephone numbers which represent thousands of calls....I keep all the emails in a folder.  Also, if you get a robo call and it states "to be removed from our list press 7"; DON'T....that simply confirms to them that they have an operational number.  Unless you're thick skinned do not engage and never provide them any details.  There goal is to prey on the elderly and unknowing.

Did anyone take a look at the information 800Notes has to help us all get rid of the fake computer techs, seemingly real debt collectors, obvious fake ‘payday pay loan’ debt collectors, ‘lower your cr. cd interest’ and “YOU’ve WON whatever it may be” scammers, etc.?
I did a quick search of some of the links. By golly! They ARE helpful! Below are just a few of the links.
Just a warning though: You may have to listen to a scammer. Write the information down along with the phone number. The FTC needs this information to get to the jerks that are harassing  you.
https://800notes.com/arts/Jb8EW-eDhQA/harassi ... ou-need-to-know
https://800notes.com/arts/mM8EewmEhQA/harassing-phone-calls-what-to-do
https://800notes.com/arts/BMoEKwOEhQA/16-ways-you-can-be-phone-scammed
https://800notes.com/arts/I2neMkbUAAo/where-to-report-phone-crime
https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us

Or there hospital bills

Still don't understand why anyone would ever get a loan through an online agency.. I mean hello you are asking to be scammed.

Lol ... I'm just not going to answer.

Some people's voices are so loud that I have to hold the phone well away from my ear; so a whistle should work well.

Gasp! Don't tell me that the FTC actually did something! Oh wait...that was over three years ago.

In order to make it look to Congress like they're doing something constructive, the FTC occasionally goes after low-hanging fruit like this case. In almost all of these cases, the scammers leave behind years worth of paper trails and aren't careful about concealing their identities.  So, this is one success story out of the billions of illegal calls we deal with every year. The FTC would really impress me if they could stop those annoying Windows technical support calls, but I guess that's asking way too much.