Freakin' Awesome, Fake Debt Collector

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Ken Light

That's nasty. I'm not one for more laws, but if this isn't illegal it should be. Harassment or extortion or something. Any idea how this guy got your number in the first place?

webmost

The shame of it is with half the work they could make twice the money doing something honest.

y2pascoe

Perfect situation for my telephony nerve gas delivery system idea that I just came up with.

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Lee.mcglynn

I'd find out who it was then beat the crap out of them! I'm sure they have done this too many people so they probably would have no idea who just kicked the crap out of them

PAtoNH

y2pascoe:

Perfect situation for my telephony nerve gas delivery system idea that I just came up with.

ooooo... I need this.

perkinke

It may not have anything to do with you specifically. In a number of different areas people like this have blackmailed hospitals into paying pretty large sums of money to avoid these hackers shutting them down, your guy may just be playing a spinoff of that idea. Someone figured out that VOiP systems are servers that rarely have virus/security protocols and exploited it to threaten critical services. We actually got a notice from the FBI (I think, may have been our state police, we get quite a few things like this) about it at my agency.

kingjk729

I got a call on my cell at work a few weeks back asking for me by name...... They stated that it was an attempt to collect a debt .... I inquired to a debt from who ..... They eluded and were asking me to verify my mailing addresses from the past .... Then they told me that the debt was from Columbia house ....... They stated that I had not fulfilled club obligations and I asked when I signed up and what address they sent the info to. They gave me address of my first house that we bought in September of 2007 ...... And said that the order was shipped to the address in 2002 ..... I started to laugh at the guy and he was like all you need is to pay us 80.00 to remedy the problem .... I asked him for his direct line and company name and that I wanted the debt detail sent to me cause how did I have stuff go to a house that I didn't own until five years after the fact .... I said mail me the info and I'll pay it, he started on that they could only accept a credit card over the phone ..... I laughed at him and advised to try and scam someone else ..... Before I hung up the offer to resolve the debt was down to asking me for 30.00 ...... These scammers are fishing for old and new addresses and phone numbers that still work, then trying to use old popular mail deals and other things..... A co worker said he had the same type of thing from blockbuster video trying to collect a debt ..... Crazy SH!T going on everywhere.

Thanatos0320

Hearing your story just pisses me off. It' a shame you had to go through that. If i could I'd personally hit the guy a few good times for you just because he was being such an ***.

PAtoNH

wwhwang

Not sure if this scam is going on in the US or not, but here in Canada, we have a scammer that calls people at random with a pre-recorded message saying "Thank you for being a valued customer of [enter company name here]. Please press 1 to receive a surprise offer." Then when you press 1 and the scammer will try to get private info out of his victims.

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