I called the phone# after looking it up to see where (city & state) it was located. The city & state for this phone# is Crockett, CA. I called the phone#, a gentleman answered "Attorney at Law", I asked him his name & he said "Joe". I asked for his last name & he said "Chase". I asked if he was an attorney, he said "this is attorney at law". I said are you an attorney & he said "of course". He asked for my name & when I didn't give it to him but just asked questions instead he asked for the phone# where I was contacted. I gave him my work#. He put me on hold to pull the file. He came back on the line & said he would read the affadavit to me which listed the charges against me, nothing to say exactly what it was about. He said it was a company named "Instacash" (sounds like a pay day loan company) that filed the charges because I supposedly contacted them from my email account (he gave me my email address & it was my home email). He asked who is ___ & gave me my mother's name! He also asked who is _____ & gave my friend's name! I used those names as references in applying for loans & may have even applied to instacash but I never did business with them. I do have an existing loan which I am current on. I have had them in the past & havean excellent payment history (never missed a payment & all loans are paid in full except the current one). He said that I solicited cash from them (Instacash)& that they transferred cash into my account. I asked when, said I'd like to know when that supposedly occurred? I am chaged with 3 counts: 1 is for violation of federal banking laws; 2 I didn't quite get, something to do with check for collateral & 3 is theft by deception. I asked him when was this money supposedly transferred to my account because I would like to know. He did not answer that question & told me that the case is going to "executed tomorrow morning" (Tues. 12/4/11, which conflicts with what Dexter Brown said.)

I told him I just wanted to find out what it was about & that I knew it was bogus & a scam. I then said thank you & goodbye & as I was hanging up I heard him say "you're welcome" in a very pleasant voice. In fact he was very pleasant the whole time.

This seems to be very similar to a prior scam that I reported for a company that went by "Department of Law & Investigations" which I reported to the PA Attorney General's office & was told they received numerous reports of this scam. They said the ph# used is a phony#, these people are not in the U.S. but are overseas.