Complaint Review: Attorney at Law - Crockett California

I received a call at work today, 01/03/11 @ 11:18 a.m. eastern time from a gentleman with a strong accent who said I am a suspect in a robbery case & advised me to get an attorney! He said the matter will be executed Wednesday morning (12/5/11) I got upset with him & hung up. Fyi, the caller id on my phone showed the phone # he was calling from as 0000000000. A couple of minutes later a call came in showing the same ph# on my caller id. I did not answer this time. The caller left a message. He identified himself as Dexter Brown & said the "hotline to my division is 510-722-6092". He said I am in a "legal mess" & that I should call or have my attorney call to "speak with one of my officers". He said if he doesn't hear from me or my attorney that "all he can do is wish me luck when all of this unfolds on me".

I called the phone# after looking it up to see where (city & state) it was located. The city & state for this phone# is Crockett, CA. I called the phone#, a gentleman answered "Attorney at Law", I asked him his name & he said "Joe". I asked for his last name & he said "Chase". I asked if he was an attorney, he said "this is attorney at law". I said are you an attorney & he said "of course". He asked for my name & when I didn't give it to him but just asked questions instead he asked for the phone# where I was contacted. I gave him my work#. He put me on hold to pull the file. He came back on the line & said he would read the affadavit to me which listed the charges against me, nothing to say exactly what it was about. He said it was a company named "Instacash" (sounds like a pay day loan company) that filed the charges because I supposedly contacted them from my email account (he gave me my email address & it was my home email). He asked who is ___ & gave me my mother's name! He also asked who is _____ & gave my friend's name! I used those names as references in applying for loans & may have even applied to instacash but I never did business with them. I do have an existing loan which I am current on. I have had them in the past & havean excellent payment history (never missed a payment & all loans are paid in full except the current one). He said that I solicited cash from them (Instacash)& that they transferred cash into my account. I asked when, said I'd like to know when that supposedly occurred? I am chaged with 3 counts: 1 is for violation of federal banking laws; 2 I didn't quite get, something to do with check for collateral & 3 is theft by deception. I asked him when was this money supposedly transferred to my account because I would like to know. He did not answer that question & told me that the case is going to "executed tomorrow morning" (Tues. 12/4/11, which conflicts with what Dexter Brown said.)

I told him I just wanted to find out what it was about & that I knew it was bogus & a scam. I then said thank you & goodbye & as I was hanging up I heard him say "you're welcome" in a very pleasant voice. In fact he was very pleasant the whole time.

This seems to be very similar to a prior scam that I reported for a company that went by "Department of Law & Investigations" which I reported to the PA Attorney General's office & was told they received numerous reports of this scam. They said the ph# used is a phony#, these people are not in the U.S. but are overseas.