Indian Accented Caller

I saw a report on cnn (I think) about this type of scam. Turns out the people running the show in one office they located were felons released from jail who became junk debt buyers and used old information to try to scare people into thinking they owed money with jail threats. In the report they were appalled that a convicted felon could so easily and cheaply purchase personal information of others, including SSNs.

Not sure if your call is this type of scam, but I think you can be pretty sure that it's a scam of some sort.

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I am reaching out to ask if anyone else has received similar calls from a heavy accented Indian male claiming to be representing a "litigation department"... from what source I have no idea!! This caller said his name was Matt Johnson (uh-huh) and his call-back number is 980-216-1375. I thought I saw some earlier posts talking about this kind of activity. "Matt" doesn't tell me what lender or collection agency he is calling from. But he DOES inform me of a "file" he has received on me and he will be forwarding this file to the civil court of my state on 8-24-10. Anyone else receiving similar calls? This was a voice mail I received yesterday, Friday 8-20-10, I didn't actually speak to "Matt".
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Many members have complained about the same situation, hang up, don't speak to them at all.

File a police report - for harassment and identity theftChange your bank accounts
Change your phone number(s)
Inform friends, family and your employer of the scam that is taking placce
Put a freeze on your credit file

Ok, thanks to all. I didnt speak to the caller... he only left a message on my cell phone. I have already changed my bank info (last year) after defaulting on more than one PDL. Sometimes it is hard to know if a call is an actual scam or a collection agency wanting to speak to me about a legit loan I had that isnt paid for. In the case of the Indian caller, he never identified WHERE he was calling from, no agency stated at all.

Also!! I did try the number back, yesterday, and it quickly goes to an automated voicemail account never mentioning what type of company you may have called. Total scam!

Assume now that your personal information is at risk and your identity now stands a much greater risk of being stolen and used maliciously. Just because you don't pick up the phone and return the calls doesn't mean at all that they will decrease in frequency or hostility.

You have new banking info - these guys shouldn't be able to touch your funds without you knowing about it. That's good.


Change the phone number you are being contacted at. Just know that the crooks will call the references you listed on your loan app. If you can live with that, fine. Otherwise, give those people a head's up.

There are a lot of discussion about these scams in the various forums. Go through them to have full knowledge on how to face them.

My wife is going through the same situation, they don't stop this has been going on for about a year. They call her work, they call her sister..It only stops for a little while..We do ever thing were suppose to by protecting her id.not sure what else to do

maybe this isn't the smartest thing to do, but i called them back (*67) and pretended to be a police officer and actually scared the crap out of one of them.

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Even if they're using a U.S. phone number, odds are very, very good they're calling from India or some other country. If you want to know if they're a legitimate collection agency, ask them to send you something in writing on company letterhead regarding the money you supposedly owe (don't admit over the phone that you owe money). I'm betting you will never receive a letter.

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