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Complaint 11889 Details

I received a call from a person name Kevin Johnson. He said he was with the Law Office of Johnny Best out of L.A. I'm sure I wrote the wrong name down because I was a bit disturbed by the call. He said that he was collecting non payment for a cash advance and t they were on their way to my job with Sheriff's to serve me. I took the bait, 1) I recently took out a cash advance and I couldn't remember who it was from or the amount so I panic. Anyways, he pretended like he was contacting the client to offer an alternative to collect payment. He came back and said if I could go and purchase a Green.dot card from Walgreens, don't activate it, and call him back once I got it. I went to Walgreens. When I got there I realized I didn't have the full amount. I call Kevin Johnson back and told him I only had $200.00. He pretended to be contacting the client again. He returned and said they would take the $200.00 and to send the rest on Friday (my pay day). I went back into Walgreens, purchase3d the Green.dot card for the $200.00 call him back and read off the numbers. Then he asks that I fax him a note stating my actions and the promise to pay the remainder on Friday. Friday 8/12/2011 he calls me back for the balance of $292.74, he ask that I purchase a Money Pak which is used to reload the card. I did that and called him back with that information. He said I would receive all the contract information in the email. I never got anything emailed to me, so I called him back, some else answered the phone and said he was in a meeting and couldn't take the call. I asked they have him call me as soon as he can. He never called back so I called again. This time they said he was out of the office. I was suspicious in the very beginning and ask several questions which none were answered. Who is the lender, when did I apply, what was the amount etc. Where I messed up is that I couldn't remember who I got a cash advance from, my mistake, I took his bait. So at this point I decided to search the internet for the name of the Law firm he claimed to be representing. Not to my surprise, I couldn't find anything. So I decided to search the telephone number and that’s when saw this number was reported before where several other people were scammed. Is there anything I can do to help stop these worthless people? I can to realization I probably won't get my money back. But I do want these people punished.