Contacted by court clerk about CashNet(USA). Worried!
Date: Wed, 04/17/2013 - 15:45
Today I get a call at work from what was the court clerk of Belmont County, Ohio, from a "John Marra" (number 1-866-426-6661) saying I have to call back before 2PM tomorrow or else. I do call them when I get back home, and they said that they sent papers out and that I would have to go before a judge if I didn't pay up 300 some dollars to waive the court date. Though the woman (obviously not John Marra) was understanding, she was saying that she couldn't get anyone to budge on the 300 dollars, something I'm not in any position to pay right now. They were talking about garnishing wages and all of this.
The problem comes because she didn't say CashNetUSA but just CashNet. I didn't know when I called them that there were two separate companies. That and she knew who I banked with (Huntington), which I don't know if that's a good or bad sign. She mentioned something about 2011, but I can't remember what she said about that year at all (I thought it was for something else I know I did in 2011, but that was unrelated to this).
I'm very worried because this sounded legit, and I gave them my debit card number in the hopes something will happen. But after reading that people get scammed a lot by this sort of thing happening, I'm not sure what to think or do. I don't have 300 dollars to just give out readily, and she said that the only people I could talk to was them because they "bought" the debt (which now that I think about it, seems rather fishy to me).
Can anyone help me out in figuring out if this was legit. I would be willing to pay back the loan and all, but this has me very worried since they might've taken me off guard.
They are NOT court clerks..
They are NOT court clerks...and saying they were is illegal!!!!
It sounds like a major scam! What state do you live in???
Ohio
Ohio!
What would I do in this case? They sounded EXTREMELY legit, and I was too gullible (gotta be better at catching these things).
There were three times that the person needed to put me on a 30 second hold for a few things (last time an abrupt 30 seconds). They have my debit card number so I don't know what to do if it is indeed one (which from what I've looked up and what you've said now, it indeed is one).
God, I gotta catch this stuff better.
You need to shut down your
You need to shut down your debit card immediately and have them issue you a new one.. depending on how long they have it you could need to shut down your whole account.. I would call the bank immediately and let them know that you have been a victim of fraud.. No one calls you to tell you that they are serving you.. I would also recommend calling the court clerk of Belmont County, Ohio - here is their website - to see what if any thing they have on file for you. I am sure nothing - you will also want to tell them that some one is impersonating them on the phone and ask them how you should handle filing charges for the fraud!!
Well, I did check the clerk
Well, I did check the clerk of courts site for any kind of docs with my name on them, and I didn't find any:
http://www.belmontcountycoc.com/
http://bceaccess.dyndns.org/
Either sign is a bad sign, but at least I can deal with it being a scam as I can fix that easily rather than having to pay that damn much when I don't have that much.
This is a scam. Call your
This is a scam. Call your court house and ask if you really want to assuage your fears - ill bet you they'll say nothing is on file and that guy doesn't even work there
An update:
An update:
Belmont Co. had nothing on file yet. I called them back to get the name of the people who would be doing this for me. The person told me that (other than her, "Karri", wouldn't give me a last name, was the one handling this) they set up through investors or something like that, and that the name that would appear is "Payment Management Services".
Going on Google, I could only find this: http://www.paymentmanagementservices.com/
http://bit.ly/ZzJxjj (my Google search)
Besaid that I would have to get in touch with local authorities. I think I might do that, because the number that "Karri" gave me to talk to her directly is a mobile number when I looked it up.
Oh, and I tried to look for Payment Management Services and John Marra together and got nothing.
Will be talking to authorities, but wanted to add this as a heads up and an update!
