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Post by anxiousmom on Mar 24, 2016 21:16:19 GMT
...and I never paid it back. According to the never ending phone calls to my cell phone if I don't IMMEDIATELY RIGHT THIS MINUTE pay them back, they are going to send the sheriff's department to my house to ARREST ME. And since they have to keep calling, I AM CLEARLY AVOIDING THEM which makes me a REALLY BAD PERSON. Ummmm...right. I will get right on it. 'Cause I have never taken out a payday loan. Ever. Wouldn't even know where to go to get one. Bunch of damn scammers trying to get money out of people.
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Post by SnowWhite on Mar 24, 2016 21:26:02 GMT
I wouldn't necessarily assume they were scammers, more likely to me someone either inadvertently or purposefully listed your number instead of their own on the paperwork.
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Post by lucyg on Mar 24, 2016 21:27:37 GMT
...and I never paid it back. According to the never ending phone calls to my cell phone if I don't IMMEDIATELY RIGHT THIS MINUTE pay them back, they are going to send the sheriff's department to my house to ARREST ME. And since they have to keep calling, I AM CLEARLY AVOIDING THEM which makes me a REALLY BAD PERSON. Ummmm...right. I will get right on it. 'Cause I have never taken out a payday loan. Ever. Wouldn't even know where to go to get one. Bunch of damn scammers trying to get money out of people. Or did someone else have your phone before you? Or someone may have deliberately given them a wrong phone number. Lucky you. I used to get phone calls from police detectives in a town near here (but still, two counties away) looking for some guy I'd never heard of. I guess he'd been a reluctant witness to something and gave them a made-up number. Which happened to be mine. It took me a long time to convince them I really had no contact with this dude.
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Post by Gravity on Mar 24, 2016 21:29:25 GMT
In the last two days, the "IRS" left a message saying they are filing charges against me and "Windows" called wanting to fix my computer.
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Post by MizIndependent on Mar 24, 2016 21:31:34 GMT
they are going to send the sheriff's department to my house to ARREST ME. You've got it right, scammers. Collection threats to arrest you and throw you in jail are usually bogus and illegal. When debtors are arrested, it is usually because they have been sued over a debt and have ignored a summons for a hearing related to the debt. When they do, the court often declares them in contempt of court and it is the contempt of court order that causes them to wind up behind bars. I hate scammers. But yeah, if they're threatening to send the police IMMEDIATELY to arrest you, you've got a scammer trying to hook ya.
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Post by anxiousmom on Mar 24, 2016 21:32:02 GMT
The calls started about six months ago and I have had the number for years, so I guess it is possible. But I did google the number and apparently there are a lot of people who get the same call and they don't have any payday loans either. I figure it is just another version of the Microsoft call. Scare you enough and you will pay up.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2016 21:33:02 GMT
I wouldn't necessarily assume they were scammers, more likely to me someone either inadvertently or purposefully listed your number instead of their own on the paperwork. Threatening to send the police is absolutely a scam. The sheriff would not come arrest you for an unpaid payday loan.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Mar 24, 2016 21:54:32 GMT
hahaha!! Perhaps you walked to the payday loan store in your sleep?? My supervisor once got a phone call and immediately left the office. She was actually going to pay back an IRS fee that she had.to.pay.right.then. With cash. from the ATM machine. She actually went and got the cash from the ATM machine, but then we had a chance to talk to her about it before she met the person to pay them. She had had an IRS mishap in the past with some sort of an identity-theft thing, so just hearing "IRS" threw her into a bit of a panic (to say the least, lol).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2016 22:15:39 GMT
We don't have debtors' prisons anymore. Collectors cannot get you arrested. It's absolutely a scam.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2016 22:43:54 GMT
I got a call like that a few years ago except they were looking for my brother. They even called my MIL looking for my brother. She had met him probably twice. They threatened to have me arrested if I didn't give them his phone number and they were sure he was living at my address. I told them I didn't have the info they wanted and to stop calling. After about five of these calls I told them that if they called again I would notify the police and turn the number into the attorney generals office. I never had another phone call after that.
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Post by georgiapea on Mar 24, 2016 22:48:15 GMT
They are hoping to catch the few people who do take out such loans and who will actually believe they have missed paying one off.
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Post by Jili on Mar 24, 2016 22:51:30 GMT
I had some kind of wacky call yesterday (to our home phone and the computerized voice didn't state exactly who they were looking for ). Apparently we've been ignoring a court judgment, summons, or something like that, and if we don't call a number we could be in contempt. Ok. Deleted.
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Post by Nanner on Mar 24, 2016 22:58:38 GMT
They're looking for money from you.
Me? They want to give it to me! Twice in the past 2 weeks, I've had e-mails from Revenue Canada telling me I am due a refund and to click on the link.....
Thing is, they went to my work e-mail address and I do all my tax stuff through my home one. Plus they have a known scam out there right now.
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Post by caro on Mar 24, 2016 23:41:31 GMT
My 91 year old mother got the IRS call. They told her she could be ARRESTED if she didn't cooperate with them.
Poor thing, I had to convince her it was a scam. I told her if they called her again she should take the number and tell them she would have her attorney get right on it.
I hate scammers and especially ones who prey on the elderly.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2016 23:43:44 GMT
Good luck. We dealt with this for months. Called members of my husbands family, called me at work, called him several times a week. We finally just decided to start having fun with it. The people would call and we would just start screaming until they hung up, we would sing opera, speak "Chinese", start telling them bedtime stories, Jamaican accents, etc. we had quite a good time towards the end.
It took about 7 months for the calls to stop.
ETA - it was this EXACT scam..payday loan and never paid back. We kept running the numbers through Google and they would come up as scams.
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Post by bianca42 on Mar 24, 2016 23:52:06 GMT
I was just checking my messages while reading this thread and there was one from a guy who needed to talk to me about a debt owed by "a person at this address" and by not calling back I would be in danger of going to jail. LOL
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Post by melanell on Mar 24, 2016 23:54:58 GMT
I wouldn't necessarily assume they were scammers, more likely to me someone either inadvertently or purposefully listed your number instead of their own on the paperwork. While it may not be the case here, it does happen. Apparently Mary Brown once offered up my phone number as her own. It took awhile to get everyone who was looking for her to finally stop calling me.
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Post by alexa11 on Mar 24, 2016 23:58:29 GMT
A few years ago, I would get calls several times a week asking for the same guy. I told the caller every time that I didn't know who this person was- didn't stop them. Then one day it dawned on me who he was. See if you can follow this... He was my ex-husband's ex-wife's first ex-husband. After I explained who he was and that I had no relationship to him, they stopped calling. I guess somehow all of our names were connected.
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Post by IAmUnoriginal on Mar 25, 2016 0:43:05 GMT
One of my bosses got a similar call from the IRS with the threat to arrest him. It was a particularly crappy day. He said "Come get me. I could use the break." It was pretty funny.
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Post by monklady123 on Mar 25, 2016 0:49:00 GMT
Yes, scam. ugh. My dh gets the IRS one every so often. Funny thing is they never call me. I told dh once that he needed to shape up because clearly *I* wasn't on an IRS watch-list. hehehehe Dh takes the number and then calls them back from work. His caller-ID from work just says "United States Government" because the real department/number is scrambled. So far he's never had anyone actually answer the phone, but he gets great pleasure in hoping that the scammers are worried that the government investigators are finally on to them.
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Post by Really Red on Mar 25, 2016 4:27:55 GMT
In the last two days, the "IRS" left a message saying they are filing charges against me and "Windows" called wanting to fix my computer. Yeah. I've had a rash of IRS messages saying the lawsuit is imminent and I am in serious going-to-jail trouble. My son is on Spring Break this week and it upset him so much he actually picked up the phone to call me (hah - he's 15 and I can't think of a situation when he actually calls).
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Mar 25, 2016 5:24:54 GMT
In the last two days, the "IRS" left a message saying they are filing charges against me and "Windows" called wanting to fix my computer. I've heard about the "Windows" scam for years, but always felt left out because they never called here. Then a couple of weeks ago my luck changed! A number from Conn. called and said they needed to fix my computer. I'm sure he was let down when I told him we only had Macs here and he wouldn't need to fix anything! I typically don't answer numbers I don't know and let voice mail screen them, but a friend recently moved to Conn. and I thought it might be her.
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Post by BeckyTech on Mar 25, 2016 5:25:54 GMT
Oh man, I got a great call from the IRS. They left a message. It was one of those robotic voices you hear on some of those YouTube videos. Claimed that I would be arrested on 5 counts(!) if I didn't pay up! They didn't say what the counts were, but that's just details. I laughed so hard I recorded it on my iPhone so I could share the laughs. I think I accidently deleted it.
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Post by scrapaddict702 on Mar 25, 2016 7:54:18 GMT
These are awesome! I haven't had any of these ones happen to me, but I keep getting the same recorded voice (in spite of the fact that I add the numbers to my auto reject list immediately, it's so frequent, I'm wondering who sold my information out of spite recently...it happens sometimes twice a day, but at least 3 times a week). It's 'we're calling about your current credit card account, nothing is wrong with this account' and by that point, I hang up. To make things worse, I was STUPID STUPID STUPID enough to write the correct number on my voter registration form (because I'm a rule follower and they asked when I filled it out) and live in a swing state...no matter how many times I get those calls and no matter how many times I yell or politely ask to be removed from the list, they don't listen. What's worse is that my husband's organization is big into politics (as are almost all unions) so they rent out space to those cold callers during election season. In spite of him insisting the calls I'm getting are unlikely to be from his office, I still want to drive down there and punch someone in the throat just to feel better because they are just disrespectful. I think this year has such great candidates *snort, laugh* that if Trump pulls in the nod, I'll threaten to vote for him if they keep up with the calls. I'm also the only one that gets the political door knockers in spite of the fact that I'm the second name on the house and we're both registered the same party.
The BEST ones (off topic, sorry) are the security company door knockers who feel it's okay that since they are in a uniform and state they are representing such and such company to ask me about my security system and how I protect my family. Yes, random dude who just knocked on my door whom I don't know, I'm just going to tell you how I keep myself safe so you can breach that when you want to break in...I know, I know, they are usually legit (because they all, from every company, ask the same questions) but you'd think a home security company would KNOW not to ask questions like that because it opens you up to vulnerability if/when the person knocking on your door isn't actually with the company who's name is on his shirt. I had one argue with me, 'but ma'am, I'm in a uniform.' I had another, who was training and standing a few feet behind the trainer, nod in agreement when I explained this exact thing to the guy doing the talking.
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Post by baslp on Mar 25, 2016 11:29:06 GMT
Thanks for the warning
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2016 13:10:14 GMT
These are awesome! I haven't had any of these ones happen to me, but I keep getting the same recorded voice (in spite of the fact that I add the numbers to my auto reject list immediately, it's so frequent, I'm wondering who sold my information out of spite recently...it happens sometimes twice a day, but at least 3 times a week). It's 'we're calling about your current credit card account, nothing is wrong with this account' and by that point, I hang up. To make things worse, I was STUPID STUPID STUPID enough to write the correct number on my voter registration form (because I'm a rule follower and they asked when I filled it out) and live in a swing state...no matter how many times I get those calls and no matter how many times I yell or politely ask to be removed from the list, they don't listen. What's worse is that my husband's organization is big into politics (as are almost all unions) so they rent out space to those cold callers during election season. In spite of him insisting the calls I'm getting are unlikely to be from his office, I still want to drive down there and punch someone in the throat just to feel better because they are just disrespectful. I think this year has such great candidates *snort, laugh* that if Trump pulls in the nod, I'll threaten to vote for him if they keep up with the calls. I'm also the only one that gets the political door knockers in spite of the fact that I'm the second name on the house and we're both registered the same party. The BEST ones (off topic, sorry) are the security company door knockers who feel it's okay that since they are in a uniform and state they are representing such and such company to ask me about my security system and how I protect my family. Yes, random dude who just knocked on my door whom I don't know, I'm just going to tell you how I keep myself safe so you can breach that when you want to break in...I know, I know, they are usually legit (because they all, from every company, ask the same questions) but you'd think a home security company would KNOW not to ask questions like that because it opens you up to vulnerability if/when the person knocking on your door isn't actually with the company who's name is on his shirt. I had one argue with me, 'but ma'am, I'm in a uniform.' I had another, who was training and standing a few feet behind the trainer, nod in agreement when I explained this exact thing to the guy doing the talking. My response to the security company would be "Oh honey, I'd be scared for them...we are well armed, in multiple ways" and shut the door.
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Post by kellybelly77 on Mar 25, 2016 14:19:25 GMT
That happened to us once. Except in our case, BIL had lovingly used our number on their paperwork. When he didn't pay it back, guess who they called over and over and over. DH called his brother and told him about it and he didn't seem too concerned but said he would take care of it. Well he didn't because they kept calling. DH got irritated enough that he eventually gave them BIL's telephone number and address. They left us alone after that and kept after BIL. Now I wonder what ever happened with that...
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Post by kellybelly77 on Mar 25, 2016 14:24:54 GMT
These are awesome! I haven't had any of these ones happen to me, but I keep getting the same recorded voice (in spite of the fact that I add the numbers to my auto reject list immediately, it's so frequent, I'm wondering who sold my information out of spite recently...it happens sometimes twice a day, but at least 3 times a week). It's 'we're calling about your current credit card account, nothing is wrong with this account' and by that point, I hang up. To make things worse, I was STUPID STUPID STUPID enough to write the correct number on my voter registration form (because I'm a rule follower and they asked when I filled it out) and live in a swing state...no matter how many times I get those calls and no matter how many times I yell or politely ask to be removed from the list, they don't listen. What's worse is that my husband's organization is big into politics (as are almost all unions) so they rent out space to those cold callers during election season. In spite of him insisting the calls I'm getting are unlikely to be from his office, I still want to drive down there and punch someone in the throat just to feel better because they are just disrespectful. I think this year has such great candidates *snort, laugh* that if Trump pulls in the nod, I'll threaten to vote for him if they keep up with the calls. I'm also the only one that gets the political door knockers in spite of the fact that I'm the second name on the house and we're both registered the same party. The BEST ones (off topic, sorry) are the security company door knockers who feel it's okay that since they are in a uniform and state they are representing such and such company to ask me about my security system and how I protect my family. Yes, random dude who just knocked on my door whom I don't know, I'm just going to tell you how I keep myself safe so you can breach that when you want to break in...I know, I know, they are usually legit (because they all, from every company, ask the same questions) but you'd think a home security company would KNOW not to ask questions like that because it opens you up to vulnerability if/when the person knocking on your door isn't actually with the company who's name is on his shirt. I had one argue with me, 'but ma'am, I'm in a uniform.' I had another, who was training and standing a few feet behind the trainer, nod in agreement when I explained this exact thing to the guy doing the talking. What is sad about the security people is how freaking pushy they are. I went to lunch to my granny's house several times a week to check on her. Once, when she was about 80, I showed up at lunch one day and found a man in her living room with all his paperwork spread out and she was poised to sign up for his security system. I looked at him and asked what he was doing. He went through his whole spiel. I told him that he needed to leave immediately and never come back. We would not be purchasing an alarm system and I was half tempted to call his supervisor and report him for harassing old ladies. Granny had told me that she was being nice and that he wouldn't listen to her no but didn't really want it. She was lucky I came by that day. I don't know who was more pissed, me or the guy who didn't make the sale!!
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Post by STBC on Mar 25, 2016 14:33:31 GMT
The BEST ones (off topic, sorry) are the security company door knockers who feel it's okay that since they are in a uniform and state they are representing such and such company to ask me about my security system and how I protect my family. Yes, random dude who just knocked on my door whom I don't know, I'm just going to tell you how I keep myself safe so you can breach that when you want to break in...I know, I know, they are usually legit (because they all, from every company, ask the same questions) but you'd think a home security company would KNOW not to ask questions like that because it opens you up to vulnerability if/when the person knocking on your door isn't actually with the company who's name is on his shirt. I had one argue with me, 'but ma'am, I'm in a uniform.' I had another, who was training and standing a few feet behind the trainer, nod in agreement when I explained this exact thing to the guy doing the talking. I had one of those come to my door. When I said I wasn't interested, he asked to speak to the "decision maker" of the house.
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Post by BeckyTech on Mar 25, 2016 16:37:54 GMT
My response to the security company would be "Oh honey, I'd be scared for them...we are well armed, in multiple ways" and shut the door. When I tell them I have two dogs, they go away ... when I can hear them through the barking, that is. Even the ones who call on the phone don't seem to have a response to that one.
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