Cash Advance USA review: Bogus Collections - Scammers!!! 446

I have been receiving calls all over from a Miles Howard saying I have a loan thruough US Cash Advance and I need to pay immediately or I will be arrested. And refuses to give me any further information. He is calling my employer as well as my home continually! This is all bogus! How do I get him to stop? Any other place I can report them?

You can file a report with ICE3 and homeland security. Homeland security has a secret service detail which investigates fraud, especially those that have actually been scammed like me. I called the BBB to ask them about the company. She said that if the number starts with a 2 it is generally going to be a scam. The number is actually over seas and routed through the U.S. to make it look legit. She also gave me the number to Homeland Security. She also stated that if they are not american that it was definately a fraud.
So the next time they called me. I told them I filed a report with ICE 3 and homeland security. I have not heard from them since.

I have been getting phone call as well telling me I owe US Cash Advance but they will not give me any amount that I owe or proof that I owe. They have told me that I will be arrested and the FBI is involved and that I will be serving a life time in jail if I don't pay the money. They also have several different people calling me and I have changed my phone number but some how they got that one too. They also have threaten my life as well as my children's lives. My children is 6 and 4. Now I have gotten an email from a total different person. I do not know what to do. Please, can anyone give me some advice because if anyone tries to come after my kids over a fake loan I will protect them in any way I can even if that means getting a gun I will.

I also have had the same calls with the exception of the thick accents. NO ACCENT heard in caller. My caller "Agent Pierce" stated I had a payday loan from 2010. I have NEVER applied or gotten a payday loan. Told me Dallas County DA office will be charging me with check fraud. I called the DA office and they stated they have had a number of similar inquiries and it appears to be a scam.

I have a Michal Reed (or Mike) # [protected] attorney with watkins and it was address and social security # account #'sECT.Ect. And I am very glad I decided to search this because NOW I know what to do! Now I am only worried about my security checks I hope I can still save my accounts by monday! Thank you all for this site we all need this, but it is still sad now days that we have this going on.

I have been getting the same phone calls saying that they would take me to court if I don't pay the amount that they gave me. They have foreign accents one persons name was frank smith another was officer james kennedy . They tell my my social security number my address where I work and everything and when I try to get a answer for the 4 different people that call me its the same thing you need to get your attorney and handle this matter they are very rude people and they keep saying the same thing but I know I never took out a loan with this company so what do I do about it they want to take me to court

I received a phone call from a man named Mike with a thick accent. Unlike most of the other posts, his accent sounded oriental rather than middle eastern. He claimed to be calling from a law firm in Houston and said that his clients have filed a suit against me. At first I thought it was a prank. I could hardly understand what he was saying and had to keep asking him to repeat himself. He said I took out an online loan for $200.00 and didn't repay it. Supposedly his clients tried to collect their money from me through an electronic fund transfer but didn't find sufficient funds. He claimed if I don't pay now than the cost will be up to over $3800.00 to cover court costs. He wanted my attorney's information so we could resolve the situation. He claimed to have my SSN and email as proof of my loan. I didn't think fast enough to ask him to repeat them to me. Now I'm curious if he really did have accurate information or if he was just bluffing. I know I didn't take out the loan but I was wondering if someone else took it out with using my information. At first i was upset but my son, who was in the room with me when I got the call, was so convinced that it was a scam that I decided to check into it. The man had given me a number to call back so that I could talk with someone else that I'd be able to understand. I did a reverse search on the number and found out that it was indeed from the Houston area. My next step was to check out the company that I supposedly borrowed the money from. The name he gave me was US Cash Advance. When I did a search on it I noticed this site with all these comments about others who were being scammed. It really does put my mind at ease to know that it is just a scam but it also enrages me to think that these people can get away with it. If they weren't making money off of unsuspecting individuals than they would have stopped a long time ago. I wish there was a way we could put an end to them. Any suggestions? . . . I do like the idea of the air-horn in the phone the next time I hear from them.

Same modus operandi as the above. I talked to a person identiying himself as Raymond Scott. He said i owe US Cash 900.00
and said they will go to court that day but i could settle the matter today if i made payment now. I told him ididn't have any cash
available now but later on Monday 4-8-13. This conversation took place on Friday 4-5-13. he wanted me to go to 7-11 with a
number he will give me to wire the money to him, but i only agreed to pay 500.00 on Monday and we will talk abiout the rest after
I wire the 500.00. The phone number he gave me is [protected]. I have no intension of paying them now that i have learned
of all the complaints. Yes i have some on-line loans but i don' remeber ever getting a loan from them or receiving any money
from them. This is a obvious BOGUS COLLECTION SCAM. Lots of harassment.

Yes, it is a scam. And yes, they do have some information on people, even SS#s. And this is simply because the 3 major Credit Agencies in this country were allowed to basically monitor our lives. Their unsafe networks, as well as having "customer services" moved out of US, enabled this tremendous chain of identity theft. They call and try to take advantage of people who would agree to pay, just to get them off their cases and people who believe their miserable threats. I didn't and I confronted them and they were not happy at all. I did not have any payday loan nor would I agree to even listen to the any further. I immediately reported to FBI, FTC, even IRS (because they had my SS#). Also you must report to the credit agencies, so they have an alert on your account. They went as far as duplicated my Debit Card and tried to get money from an ATM located in Paris, France. But, I alerted my bank and they actually flagged and closed my card right away. I was told, by an FTC rep (Federal Trade Consumer), to NOT even talk to them, hang up on them and report the #. I personally chose to change my phone number to an unlisted one. We must try, every way possible to fight back this huge chain of scammers who are a bunch of low life crooks, trying to make money this way. My personal concern is that we made it so easy fr them and we did not have sufficient protection. We are require to allow credit agencies to monitor us, but we do not have too many rights, except AFTER the fact, when it may be too late. Something needs to be done.

18 of Mar, 2013
I have just received a threatening call from Raymond Scott telling me I owe a payday loan to US Cash Advance. He didn't say how much I am supposed to owe them, but he is sending the police to arrest me after my case is tried at 3 pm today. I don't owe them and never have. he was also hard to understand and tried to out talk me. I do know that in the US you have to prove I took money, which he is saying I did, to put me in jail. I am going to try and protect myself so this does not happen again. I will be calling the FTC. Thanks for all the comments they sure help.

I also received calls like this today. They had names like Barry Barrington and Hattie McNeal. I told them that I didn't receive any funding that they referring to and didn't understand what they were talking about. They continued to say that if I didn't resolve this I would have to go to a courthouse and resolve. They would come and arrest me. When my husband let them know that he was a US servicemen (which he is) they got very angry and started yelling at him and he told him that he was going to get his lawyer to contact them. They hung up on him. They called back shortly after that and I let them know that I already contacted my police station and have read all these complaints on them and know they are frauds.

I received a call from1-[protected] this week and [protected] last week. with the same scam mentioned by all these other posts. This time his name was Donald, it was a different name last week. Calling from the "collections investigations bureau" which doesn't exist. I could tell he was full of ###, so now I call him back about every 20 to 30 minutes just to talk about whatever. These guys are dumb. So please feel free to call the above phone numbers as often as you can.

This morning at 6 a.m. we recieved a call and my husband answered the phone and they asked for me. I currently am pretty much bedridden due to a blood clot in my right leg from my knee to my ankle. He informed them that it was 6 in the morning and to call later. I recieved a phone call around 7:30 from a Richard and was informed that there was a lawsuit against me and I needed to call Dexter Cruz at [protected] regarding this. I called the number and Dexter informed me that I was being sued by Cash Advanced USA for fraud and that they were going to have the cops come and arrest me and sue me for over $3000 if I did not go to the nearest CVS or Wallgreens and call him from there today with the $496.00 that I owed and he would give me further directions from there. I informed him I have never heard of Cash Advanced USA and would not take a loan and not pay it back. He was very rude and demanding threatening to have me arrested. I asked him why I have not recieved any legal paperwork and he told me that they had sent me numerous emails and I did not respond. I was almost in tears about this and told him I would call him back and he gave me another number [protected] to call him back. I researched my email and there was nothing from Cash Advanced USA, called my bank and nothing from them either. Then I went to the website for Cash Advance USA and which I didn't recognize and looked through it and found on their website-CashAdvanceUsa.net Does NOT make ANY calls to customers.If you get a call from any representative “directly” from us - it’s a scam!If you are asked to pay before you get any money – it’s a scam! If it’s a call from a “collection” for us – It’s a scam! CashAdvanceUsa.net provide lenders services for you to talk to and to choose your loan that is right for you, Do not be fooled by scammer’s and big words. So I called Dexter back and told him all of this and he still threatened me and then hung up. I am upset at the fact that he even knew my personal information. I am not sure what to do?

I have been receiving these same calls. I got really suspicious when they said I got a payday loan last month but couldn't provide a date. Then a few months ago they told me I had got a loan a different month and different amount. These people need to stop. They told me the payday loan was from US Cash Advance. I don't know these people I don't owe these people .They have my social security number, my old bank info, and my old address. When I traced the call back, it came when a cellphone. Please don't give these people any money or your information . I learned after that first call that these scammers would say anything to get you to give them money. Ask them the date the debt accured they can't tell you, ask them you so called account number they can't give you. I two wish these people will get arrested and get the max jail time from trying to ruin hard working people's lives.

I received my first email from a person calling herself Jane Austin, January 8th - in the body of the email there was my exact social security number, home address, they had my banking information but not accounts. I responded to the email, asking that if I owe money, what is the payday organization I borrowed the money from the $amount and when. The next missive did not answer any of my questions. I have since received a total of 7 emails. All detailing that if I don't wire the money via western union or netspend, I will be subject additional court proceedings. I have decided to ignore these emails, but I keep a separate folder as a point of reference, I will search US Cash Advance, to forward these emails to them, maybe they will have more luck in getting this Jane Austin off my back.

i just received, this is my second call this week from the same man . told me i took out a loan and he was gonna have me arrested . come to my work and then when i started to ask him questions he got mad wouldn't answer me and then hung up ...
the number is from the Baton Rouge, LA. area [protected])

I have received the same call from this company and I was told that the middle eastern sounding man that he was in the legal department for US Cash Advance, USA Cash Advance and United Credit saying that I had loans with these companies. I told the man that I've never had loans with these companies and that I would be contacting the companies myself in reference to the so-called loans that I had supposedly received. When he heard me say that, he quickly hung up the phone. This person knew my name, social, date of birth and even my job along with my phone number. I haven't gotten any more calls from this company but it's from the same number that everyone else has been receiving calls from.

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I got the same phone call, and I did not get a loan from them, they are nasty and yelling at me, said today i would be arrested, I am 71 years old and have Diabetes, and last night after the phone call I was so upset that I trembled for hours, who needs this? this needs to be stopped somehow, I just can't take this, what a scam and it looks its been going on for years,
Loretta

I just got a phone call today at work, I was being reported to the BCI deparment, something about bad consumer, and that I owed anywhere up to 1500.00 he did not know the amount but that it was US Cash Advance. I asked him when this was taken out and he could not tell me the original loan amount nor date. He had my place of employment, my address, my social, drivers license number and my banking account. I had used payday loans in the past, huge mistake, but have paid them all in full. This person told me I was going to jail today and I had one hour to contact them back with my attorney information or make payment today. That they would send an officer to my place of employment and haul me off to jail and I would lose my job. Very thick Indian accent. I believe name was Brad Nelson that was given and a phone number of [protected]. Thanks to this website I found trying to research this company, I will be reporting to the FTC and also FBI..

ALert! ALert! Alert!
Guys today I'm gonna reveal all the secrets in front of you all. I personally know where this people are situated at. Here are the details to reach this scammers.
Zap Tech (Maac)
Office no. 201,
Choice Arcade, d.p.road,
opposite to ruby hall, near dominos pizza,
Dhole patil road, pune, India.
Now you have a choice to stop them.
Name of d person who owe this scam company is : Rakesh H Zunj ((+[protected]) and his partner Avinash Kushwaha (+91 [protected])

Here is another one he called my job today and asked if I had a lawyer I told him no he said I would have to call his boss Alex at [protected] I did he said I owed $5484.85 and that I would be arrested today and my paychecks were going to be garnished, I was being sued and arrested for a loan that I never took out just looked into. he also told me to be at court today at 2pm and bring court fee & bail money. He then continued his threats by stating that someone would be coming to my work place and contacting my supervior. I feel threaten,

They told me that the police would be here tomorow before 11 to arrest me. I asked for info about the loan and they said the police would have all the documentation with them. I reported them to the police. Then I called the people back and told them that I reported them to the police. So lets see what happens tomorrow.

Hi I just received that call today too. Some Indian guy telling me that I owed us cash advance almost $400.00 dollars. He didn't want to give me any information but insisted I owed money. He goes by the name of ERIC BROWN he's a attorney suppose ably. If u want to report it call the FTC at [protected].

I received a call today from US Cash Advance [protected], middle eastern person speaking, telling me i needed to contact them about a crime and if i didn't i better get an attorney. I called them back and everytime i called i got a different person. I told they they were scamers and i would turn them over to the FBI. I called serveral more times and a Raymond answered . I told him he was a big scamer and he needs to learn how to speak English before calling people. I told him this scaming people don't fly with me and i cursed him and hung up. What is next here ? these people need to be stopped.

I had a similar phone call today. when i call ed back he told me to give him information and i needed an attorney. i told him he was a scamer and i will tiurn him over to the Dept. of Fraud and also the BBB. the number they called from was [protected]. He called himself Andrew and the other one Raymond. I told him your are a Scamer and quitt calling me. After i called back 5 more times they kept hanging up.

OMG! these people are still at it! My Indian person's name is "officer frank wilson" from "eagle investigation". so like an idiot i called the number he left. A girl answered. said they were a law firm and they told me i took out a loan from between 2008 and now (imagine) that i didn't pay back. they even had the wrong first name for me, should have been my first clue. they couldn't go into specifics either. she said they had a copy of my credit report and there were no black marks on it, so i should pay the $1, 000 plus amount that i had still owed someone from US Cash Advance, although they wouldn't give me the company that i supposedly owed it to. please don't give these people any money. if you ever get sued, you will get papers from a court, not some bs artist. geez, i actually almost fell for it. i was practically screaming too how i always pay back my loans from whatever place i owe money to. Well, they are quite believable anyway. maybe they work for Bollywood.

well its 11am and i am at work and get this call from a "Jack Morris", says he is with us cash advance and needs to collect a debt from a payday loan that i recieved and never payed back. i knew something was wrong cause i never took out such a loan. To make a long story short, he continues to call nonstop for 2 and a half hours straight demanding that i give him a credit card # to settle up this dept. police were called and they traced his calls ( all 106 of them) and ended up he was calling from a call center in Massachusetts. my job actually had to get his # blocked so he couldnt call again. The police say it happens all the time, so be careful and dont ever give these people what they want!

My advice for people is to drive them nuts with questions. I asked him to repeat and spell everything (since I couldn't understand him) he got so frustrated. LOL! Then get nasty with them. They can dish it out but they can't take it.

These people have been harassing me for the last week. My story is the same...indian accent, has all my info and threatening jail. At first I was so scared that I actually did confirm my ssn and dl # (kicking myself but I didn't know!) but then I kept him talking and figured out it was a scam because of his lack of interest in providing any sort of official paperwork to me. I have since filed complaints w/ FTC, FBI, put a fraud alert on my credit report, purchased lifelock so I can monitor. HOWEVER, the idiot keeps calling me at work...it's a direct line so it's just me that gets the calls but now he has caller ID spoofed my work number! I blocked the original number he was calling from both on my cell and had our IT guy block it on my work phone...not soon enough because now he calls my work phone from my work phone number and also my cell phone! So there I sit in my office and see my own work number show up on my caller ID! Scary that he may be using my work # (I work for a non profit agency that helps people in need!) to call and harass people and try to get money out of them! I worry that he has also caller id spoofed my cell phone number and am about to change my number.

Just received a call from 'supposed' attorneys office in CA. A VCF attorney's in Placerville, CA. The number is [protected] saying that I took out a cash advance of $300 which I know I did not. He said someone must have hacked my yahoo account and that I could pay them $3000 to make it go away. The name he used is Eric Brown, (mind you, Eric has a thick indian accent) I am positive I never took out a loan with Cash Advance USA. Who would I file a complaint with?

Interesting...I got a call from Ron Baxter too and the number he called me on is [protected]. Told me he was a "supervisor" and that I owed $393.84 and I would be sued and subpoened if I did not pay this amount yesterday. I asked him who this supposed pay day loan is from, and he told be USA Cash Advance, but when I asked the name of the specific company that he could not tell me because they are the parent company to over 500 payday companies. Utter ###! I asked what the amount was that the loan was for and he said between $200-$500, again total bs. The only loan I ever had out was for less then $200 and I paid it off. I will admit that the tactics they used did make me extremely nervous but I know the only thing they can do is sue me. I can not be arrested. I'm so glad that I found this on here and the next time Mr. Ron Baxter calls, with his Indian accent, I will be glad to tell him that I am on to his little game and exactly where he can go with his $393.84. I'm thinking the number he called me from may be a cell phone, though I will say that when I called him back after getting his message I did hear a ton of people in the background, all male ( from what I could tell) and all Indian or Asian accents. So, this scam evidently has quite a number of people in on it. I will be calling the state attorney's office on Monday morning.

My Fiancee has been getting calls from a "Adam Jones" from a USA Cash Advance and we never applied for any of that and said that he owed less then $500 well the Cash Advance places dont do that by pone or none of that he had all of my Fiancee's info and my info and was saying and still is saying that if we dont pay the money we are going to get arrested I just want every one to be fare wormed and pray no one falls for this phony debt collector

I like all of you received a call from [protected] some man said I owe 8, 000 for a cash advance loan with his company us cash advance.I told him he must have the wrong person, he then gave my bank name and said he had my ss#.He said I would be arrested if I don't pay 500.00 today.I told him I was on my way to the police and needed his business # or a ref #, he did not give me one.The line went dead, I called back and got a voice mail, I left a long message about being at the police dept and needed someone to call me back, they never did.I called about an hour later the same guy said hello sounded like he was asleep, said he could not hear me and hung up.I filed a report with the FTC.Man this is scary...

I just got a call from Ron Baxter---[protected] saying I owed 550 some dollars to US-Cash advance--anyone else gotten a call from Ron Baxter?

They tried that mess with me. I contacted my states attorney general's office and filed a complaint.

Last night I received a phone call from [protected] in Jacksonville, Florida. I spoke with a man with an Indian accent who said his name was Jack Taylor and he was from the legal dept. of USA Cash Advance. He told me that since I have been refusing to respond to e-mails regarding my loan that I would be arrested and brought before the court tomorrow at 11:30 AM unless I made some type of payment immediately. He had my personal information but could give me no information regarding this payday loan. This morning Jack Taylor called me from [protected] in Atlanta, Georgia. To my knowledge I have not made a payday loan from USA Cash Advance. I think I will call the FTC myself and file a complaint.

I received a phone call last night from a man calling himself Jack Taylor. He said he was from the legal dept of USA Cash Advance and that I was refusing to pay back my payday loan and if I didn't pay I would be arrested today and taken to court at 11:30 AM today.He called me after 6:30 PM. He could not give me any details about the loan amount or when the loan was taken out. All he wanted was money. The first call showed a caller ID of Jacksonville, Florida # [protected]. This morning he called me from [protected] in Atlanta, Georgia. This Jack Taylor spoke with an Indian accent. To my knowledge I have not made a payday loan from USA Cash Advance.

I received the same call from a Mr. Bill Castillo with the Financial Crimes Investigations Department, who is also under the alias name of U.S. Cash Advance for a payment that I owe them $800.00 that was from a loan off the internet. The number I was getting these calls from is [protected], [protected], and [protected](one of the numbers is unlisted!). This is the same individual who was been threatening people before including me over the phone who speak in a thick barely cannot understand Middle Eastern/Indian or Cambodian accent. I have reported this information to the proper authorities including the Federal Trade Commission and the FBI.
This is nothing but a international scam! DO NOT SEND THESE PEOPLE ANY MONEY!

It's a scam! They are using throw away cell phones. My call came from an area code in Canada. I had a police officer try to call them back to no avail. He said change my phone number because this is a scam usually targeted at the elderly. Don't fall for it even if they claim you are being charged with a criminal act. It's not true! Keep your guard up! They called me from [protected]. This is a non-working number. God bless you all!