Fast Cash International FRAUD, trying to extort money with the threat of jail for payday loan I never took out. Los Angeles California

I got a call at my work this morning as wes told upon arrival that I had an extremely important message. It was from a woman named Kathy Ranson (818) 451-4038 and I was told by our receptionist that she did not state a company name or anything else except "Issue at hand time sensitive, Please call asap, Kathy Ranson (818) 451-4038". I called the number and asked for this woman and some thick accented man (appeared to be an accent from somewhere in the Orient) answered the phone and said "kevin williams" and when I asked for the Kathy Ranson individual he said "who? she is not at this number". so, I double checked the number I had dialed on my phone display, and I had dialed correct. I was a bit confused, after asking the receptionist to check my message against hers and make sure the number was correctly transposed, and it was, I decided to call again. This time the same man answered and he said "yes, Kathy Ranson is my junior litigator, I am sure you know what this is about" when I stated "no", he proceeded to read me an "affidavit" and said that I took out a payday loan from fast cash international, and they tried 3 times to take the money to no avail, .... they listed the last four of my social and my bank account. I then asked him again "what is the company name?" he got a bit miffed, and said really fast "fast cash International, and I told you maam that you are not to say anything or ask any questions until I am through reading you the affidavit and asking you questions" and then I said "when was this supposed to have been done?" and I proceeded to tell him that I had not taken out any payday loans in the past six months, he said "it was taken out last year", and he then proceeded to tell me that if I had any criminal record, had bounced checks in the past, been in trouble for any check writing issue, fraud, etc... or if I was on any type of supervised probation/parole that I would be charged with a felony and convicted do to the priors, he then got really adamant and asked me "are you on any type of supervised probation or parole? Have you ever been in trouble for these types of crimes?, and so on. I then stated, "I did not have that checking account or any other one last year for that matter and that I could not have possibly done what he is alleging, he started stuttering, and I hung up on him". I was scared however, because all I kept thinking was that someone had gotten a hold of my information and I was going to get in trouble for something I had not done. I called my boyfriend crying on the phone and told him to call our attorney. Then, I decided to search my emails for anything that would have any information from that company, because I figured if they were already filing criminal charges, and they did read me my correct email address, they must have sent me an email prior to flling charges notifying me of the deliquency and their intent to file. Well, imagine that, I could not access my email as my password was not working. So, I had yahoo send me a link to my linked email account and when I first tried to reset it from that link, the screen let me put in my new password, but, then it stated that I had used an expired link and that I could not use that reset technique for another 24 hours. I then proceeded to try and reset it with my security questions, but, I did not know the answers because they were questions I had never seen before. Once again, I tried to reset it with the alternate email address feature, and it did work. Upon searching my email and finding nothing from that company nor any payday loans that had completed in any way, I decided to check out their company via google search, and hence that is where I found pages of reports against this company for the very same thing. Thank you so much everyone who took the time to alert rip off report of this as it saved me a lot of stress, money and time!.

Linda
culver city, California
U.S.A.