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THIS HAPPENED TO ME YESTERDAY: THIS IS A FIRST HAND ACCOUNT OF A SCAM- BE ALERT AND ASK QUESTION BEFORE YOU PANIC I receive a call last week that went to voicemail from: Message from Unknown sender (6066199560) The man had a foreign accent and did not leave any specific information on why he was calling so I thought it was a telemarketer. I deleted the message. Again this week, I receive another message that was still very vague so I deleted the message again. Yesterday he left a more detailed message regarding (a legal suit being filed again me and he needed to contact my attorney). This message caught my attention so I returned his call. Phone Call #1 to him: He stated his name was Chris and that he was working with the State of Texas on an arrest warrant because I had done business with a company and failed to pay the debt. He wanted to contact my attorney to get the information to him in order to keep the Police from showing up at my job on Friday to arrest me and book me downtown. I asked if there had been any mail sent to my home address or email address indicating a court date or the alleged charges against me. He told me that in the state of Texas that is not required because I had signed contracts agreeing to pay for the services and had failed to make the $8,000 dollar payment and they were now pursuing legal aggressive action. He told me he would read the affidavit and the charges against me and asked me not to interrupt him while he read them to me. I informed him that I did not have an attorney currently on retainer but that I would call him back with the information. (this was to give me time to put together some questions that would allow me to understand what I needed to do). He told me he would read the affidavit and the charges against me and asked me not to interrupt him while he read them to me. It was amazing how official all of the information he read to me sounded so I was wondering if it could be true. Phone Call #2 to him: I asked him to provide the name of the company that I did business with and he gave the name American Bank. I informed him that I did not recognize that name and asked him if they went by another name in the state of Texas. He said they do business under multiple names but could not provide me with the specific name. I then asked him if he could email me the information for me to read over and provide to my attorney. He refused and again asked for my attorney’s name. I told him I would call him back. Phone Call # 3 was to a paralegal that I know: He asked me if the person sounded like he had a foreign accent. I responded yes and he told me it sounded like a scam to call him back and tell him that I had call the Federal Trade Commission to see if the number was listed on the scam phone number list. Phone Call # 4: I called the Federal Trade Commission and filed a complaint and they also said it sounded like a scam and told me to contact Transunion to put a fraud alert on my account with all Credit reporting agencies. So I did so. Phone Call #5: I called Chris back to let him know what my paralegal and the FTC told me and he then became belligerent and told me to just wait until Friday when I was arrested at my job and taken downtown for booking. I then told him that I thought he was trying to scam me and this was a bunch of BS that he was feeding me. He told me I was wasting his time and to enjoy my time in jail and to hopefully have an attorney and family that could provide my bail money. He then hung up on me. Phone Call #6: I called him back to see what other information he could provide to me. His response, “are you now going to harass me?”. I told him know that I just needed to get more information. The line went dead. Phone Call #7, and #8: I called back, heard a pick up, and click- a hang up. Then my number was blocked Guess once he found out I was on to him, he realized I wasn’t stupid and wasn’t giving him any personal information, money, or my attorney’s number. Please be very careful when you receive phone calls from people you know. Don’t give out any personal information even if they can confirm it because there are a lot of scammers out there that buy and sell personal information to get money from people who might not know to ask the right questions. Very Scary when someone tells you that you will be arrested at you work place. If I am wearing orange on Friday, you will know it wasn’t a scam, but since they won’t talk to me and have blocked my numbers, I don’t think the florescent orange will be my color on Friday. Please pass this along to friends and family who might not be business savvy. It might save them some money, time, identity theft and heartache.

Do not answer they r ***king thieves