Complaint Review: Legal Affidavit Services

I got a phone call at my employers phone number at 7:00pm from a Warren Smats who said his client was US National Bank and that I had taken out a payday loan December 4, 2007. He told me he was downloading my case within the hour and would be sending someone to arrest me the next day to take me to court. He said that I owed $1385.00 and would accrue over 5k in legal fees. He was demanding the name of my lawyer and fax number. He told me I was being charged with two counts of check fraud.

I then tried to explain to him that I had not taken out a loan and asked why he had not notified me prior to this date for payment. He told me that he tried to contact me on my cell phone # that I had supplied back in Dec. However I did not have the cell phone he listed back in Dec, I had only had it for a few months. He then told me he would speak to his boss and see if he was willing to give me an out of court resitution.

At that time I was transferred to Mike Rogers who said he would accept a payment of $1385 within the hour and he would not execute my case. He then wanted me to fax a letter of apology to his attorney Sam Brown explaining why I had not paid this loan and my intentions of paying the amount of $1385 without taking any legal actions. He wanted the letter signed and to include the last four of my ssn.

At this point I was very scared and tried to fax the letter to him (very stupid of me). Fortunatly the fax # he gave me would not work. Mr Rogers then became very angry telling me that he did not have all night to deal with this and that I should not be dialing #1 with the fax number for his country. When he stated this I questioned him and he became more angry. I then told him I would figure this out and contact him the next day.

Luckily I went home and investigated his so called client and found these other reports. I contacted my bank and verified that there were no transaction put into my account on the days Mr. Rogers was telling me. I also notified the Attorney General for New York and put in a written complaint.

Mr. Rogers called my home # the next day from a california # wanting to know why he had not received the transaction and demanding that I fax the letter. I told him that I had notified the authorities and I new he was running a scam and that any further discussions would be with my lawyer and I hung up. He then called back within seconds from an unknown # and demanded my lawyers fax # at which point I told him he would not receive any more information from him. I have not heard back from him.

Everyone that I talked to had middle eastern accents and sounded like the same person pretending to be different people. I could also hear other men in the background talking and laughing and the connection was not always good.

Anonymous
Oneonta, New York
U.S.A.