Question About Alledged Law Firm

[tehildebran]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? NC
I received a phone call yesterday from a supposed law firm in CA. The man was foreign and I could not understand him that well. He mumbled over the name of the firm he represented. He stated that I had a lawsuit against my name and SSN from an online cash advance company. The company stated that they gave me a $450 cash advance in May 2007 and I never repaid it. He mumbled over the name of the cash advance company after I asked him several times what their name was and I could not understand him. I finally got out something like CashNet or something. I have had online cash advances before and paid them all back. I have never had one with this company. I went back and looked at my bank statement for April - June of 2007 and there is no deposit showing from that company or in that amount. He was very rude and over bearing. He said I needed to fax them a letter stated I was sorry for the oversight and agree for them to use my debit card to deduct $300 each month to cover the charges (He told me that the total charges were over $5000, but the company would settle for $1150). His phone number showed up as unavailable and when I went on line to see who the number he gave me belonged to, it belonged to an individual, there was no company name. My question is, is what this company did proper procedure? I have never received one word from this "cashnet" company advising that I had not paid them, nothing. This man did have the last four digits of my SSN. Could this be a scam? I have not faxed them anything yet, what are my options?

Also, I forget to add this. This man called me on my job. I have not received one piece of any correspondence from anybody in regards to this. I did not think lawyers called people on their jobs.

[nrknlknek]

This osunds like fraud or phishing to me, but the fist thing I would do is find out if there is a lawsuit pending in CA or NC and go from there. No lawsuit, no issue.

[tehildebran]

Thank you for the reply. How do I find out if there is a lawsuit pending in CA? I would assume that if there was one here in NC, I would have been notified by someone here.

[HomeGuru]

yes a big scam.

[nrknlknek]

Call the court clersk office in the county where you resided.

[mlane58]

There is a scam running with people out India posing as agents of Sonic Cashnet. I have had them call me several times looking for one of my employees and they are very evasive as to who they are and represent. My suggestion is to call Sonic Cashnet and report it and I know they have Homeland Security and the Secret Service investigating this.