I was contacted by phone several times with calls being back to back. Messages were left by persons whom I assumed were foreign because of it being hard to understand them. The messages stated in exact words "do not delete this message and don't not return this call". They also said that they were calling from the state investigations office. I tried calling the number that was on the message but it said that the party was unavailable. I tried this a couple of times then left a message. They called back with another messages stating the same things,
so I called right back and spoke to someone who was supposedly a parallegal and he transfered me to the supposed attorney or his higher up and this person wanted to know who my lawyer was and his/her information and I asked him to explain to me what this was about then he told me that I owed for a pay day loan and that I was being charged with 3 different counts which included cyber fraud, money laundering and another that I can't remember.
He also told me that it could cost me about $7000.00 if this was taken to court. I told him that I didn't understand what was going on and he asked me if I had been briefed about the case which I hadn't and said so. He said I was supposed to have gotten something through my email briefing me about this case. Then he said that he would read off to me which I assumed was the brief and charges against me. He told me not to interrupt or use profane language and that the conversation was being recorded and that an attorney in my state (criminal)would be listening also.To make a long story short I gave him my debit card info for a 450.00 payment on a $674.00 debt that I thought I owed (I have a loan but not a pay day loan).
He also wanted me to send by mail or fax my drivers license and a verification letter giving authorization for the debit card transaction. I had this company researched after checking my account to find out that it was this company who was never mentioned in my conversation with these people and found this to be fraud. Here is the number to the payment processing people who processed my card and when I told them that I contacted the Attorney General in Virginia because this is a fraudulent transaction they quickly sent me a refund confirmation to my email. It's only been 5 hours since I got the confirmation, my money isn't in my account yet.
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