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sarah hall from RG financial same old scam reported to the bi
Got a call at work on 9/18 from "Kim Bradley," asking for employment verification. As I hadn't applied for any credit/loan, and since I work for a government agency whose employee records recently got hacked, I was suspicious. I told her that this wasn't HR, it was the person she was asking about, and why was she calling? She suddenly became belligerent and said that her company was collecting a debt on a payday loan from 2010. I did have PDLs years ago, but they're paid off, and I told her this. I then said that if she was from a legitimate company, they should send me something in writing, because I know I don't have a PDL debt. She said something was sent already. (Nothing was.) Then she asked if I had payoff paperwork from 5 years ago. I said no (because everything was online). So she said they'd garnish my check and she demanded to be sent to HR. I told her that she wasn't to call me at work and she could look up HR's number herself. (I had provided the actual loan companies with HR's number.) At 1128, she called my husband's cell phone number and left a threatening message, claiming to be from "Fraud Investigation" (mispronouncing the name of the county she claimed to work for), that "criminal allegations were pending" against me, and stating that my attorney needed to call her back immediately. The number she left had an area code from within my state (Oklahoma). Today (9/26) I got an envelope from my HR office at my job. Apparently, "Kim Bradley" (who now goes by "Mrs Dawn Richardson - Verifications Director" from "RG Financial") faxed a "Request for Verification of Employment" to the other government facility in my state, who in turn mailed it to my facility, and they mailed it to me. The form is an OBVIOUS MS-Word job, with a clip-art logo of an "R" on a shield, flanked with wings and a crown on top. (The website for RG Financial doesn't have this logo.) Also, I did a Google search, and in addition to a LOT of "fraud/scam call" references, there is a Wikipedia reference stating that RG Financial went bankrupt in 2010 and closed. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_%26_G_Financial_Corporation ) I looked up the address listed on the fax cover letter - 3455 Peachtree Industrial Blvd, 305-202, Duluth GA 30096, and suite 305 is an Easy Mail. (The 202 is a box number there.) NONE of the phone numbers on the fax cover or "employment verification form" match. Also, the "form" says they need both someone at HR and myself to sign it and return it to them (which would provide them with my signature). Needless to say, I'm NOT doing so. I have filed complaints with the FBI and FTC today and kept a copy of the voicemail in case they need it to prosecute. Numbers used on the forms: 800-341-6097 (fax cover phone number listed, but it is listed on the top as the fax ... when you call it, it doesn't give a company name, : "Thank you for calling, If you know your party's extension, etc.etc."), 1-888-704-3493 (the number for RG Financial, according to their template website with Shutterstock images and links that go nowhere) and 1-888-215-0254 (also just a phone number, NOT a fax, goes to the same answering system as 800-341-6097 from the fax cover).
I recieved a call from Andy at AG Financial early July. He said that I had owed money on a loan I had taken out. He verified a location I was living and my place of work. I was in the military for the past for 10 years and I have debt that I have not been able to keep up with due to a lot of moves and phone number changes. I fell for it and set up a payment arrangement for autopay from my debit card. I made the first payment of $130. When my next payment was coming up I called to change my due date. It seemed funny that the same person always answered the call. When it wasn't a direct line. I researched the company and found numeous fraud complaints. I will be filing a police report and pressing charges if my bank is able to locate this company.
Just reviewed phone calls and emails from this company. I pulled my statements from the dates and confirmed no loans were taken. I cannot believe in this day in age where we are all working multiple jobs that these people are trying to scam us out of money.
Andy Collins from RG Financial called me on June 9, 2015. I was told that I owed for a Chase payday loan from 2008, that I had made a few payments, but that I was still in debt. I don't remember exactly how much he said I owed, but that I could settle for $810. He said I had two options: I could pay it all in one lump sum, or I could make payment arrangements. I fell for it, only because I did take out a loan once, and he made me question whether or not I did pay it back. He also had the address I lived at when the loan was taken out and my old email address. Like a fool, I gave him my information and the company took me for almost $400 before I figured out it was a scam. My first tip should have been that, when we were getting off the phone, he told me that id someone else called me about this debt, not to talk to them, to tell them it was already being handled. When I called on the eve of my third payment, today, the number I was given...888-704-3493...was out of order. I called it again, and an operator came on that said, "This Google number cannot be reached right now." That's when I started investigating further and realized it was a scam. I immediately cancelled my debit card and filed a fraud claim.