"SM Law Group Legal Notice and Arrest Warrant" Scam

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Updated: Mar. 23, 2018 2018-03-23T04:18:05
Posted: Mar. 23, 2018 2018-03-23T04:13:25
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The "SM Law Group" email below is a fake. The fake email message is being sent by scammers to trick the recipients into sending them money by threatening legal actions. Therefore, recipients of the fake email message which appears as if it came from a so-called SM Law Group, should delete it and not follow the instructions in it.

It is important that the public takes precautions when asked to send money via money transfer services like Western Union and MoneyGram, or Prepaid Debit Card to pay legal services or the government. This is because scammers use those untraceable money transfer services to collect money from their victims. Money sent via those services are not refundable, once the scammers have collected or used it.

The "SM Law Group Legal Notice and Arrest Warrant" Scam

From: Attorney Department for Debt Collection and Bank Fraud <acc.debt.inc@gmail.com>

Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2018 2:55 PM

Subject: Re: URGENT : Invoice number 394413274

SSN:

We received your Customer ID to our FINAL COLLECTION DEPARTMENT with the amount of $1285.85.

As we having your file showing that you took a loan of $500.00 from one of our WEBSITE and you never pay your debt back to the company. Now you have to pay $1285.68 and in this amount all charges will be included along with your ignition loan amount.

A summary of your original loan with other charges provided below.

Principal: $500.00

Loan Fees: $67.33

Lender Interest: $505.99

Attorney Charges: $98.68

NSF Charges: $56.85

Other Charges: $57.00

A summary of your original loan terms is provided below.

If you are still willing to resolve this matter outside courthouse, you need to make this payment. Once your account will be paid in full with zero balance then we will send you a Payment Receipt stating that your account has been paid in full with zero balance.

If you will ignore this E-mail, we will download the case against you and once your case will be downloaded on your Name and Social thereafter we will send you the court paper at your door step as well as your employee which is in our file. In courthouse you have to pay Seven Thousand Five Hundred Ninety Dollars.

If you have any questions or concerns, our Customer Support Team is available SEVEN days a week to help answer all of your questions via E-mail.

*If your payment is returned for any reason, this receipt for your payment will be considered null and void and we will be forced to start collection procedures. SM Law Group & ACS does not warrant that the content of this correspondence is error-free. For the most accurate and up to date information about your account and/or terms of use of SM Law Group & ACS products please see your agreement and/or account information on the SM Law Group & ACS Department.

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January 3, 2019 at 9:35 PM by an anonymous user from: Rockville, Maryland, United States
Here is another scam:
"!st Email: LAW OFFICE ACE <ace.paydayloan.debt@gmail.com>
The company can accept minimum $200.00 bI weekly starting from today as a good faith payment so that we can stop the legal actions against you. And also as we have informed you earlier that if you are making a final settlement amount you have to pay $850.00 but if you go for installments you have to pay the full amount that is $1400.00. Kindly let us know if you are willing to make a payment so we can send you the payment instructions accordingly as you are already running short of time.
Do reply us back ASAP if you are willing to resolve the case outside the court without any legal actions against you.
2nd Email: The only mode of payment we are allowed to accept below $500.00 is thru iTunes Gift Card Apple, and you do not have to give out any of your personal information to anyone.
All you have to do is get 2 iTunes Gift Card by Apple with value of $100.00 each on it from any of the stores mentioned below, scratch on the bottom on the back side of the card, and provide us code.
iTunes Gift Card by Apple is available at these stores:
Target
Safeway
Walgreens
Starbucks
Rite Aid
Longs Drugs
Best Buy
Radio shack
Costco
7 Eleven
Cvs
NOTE: We need picture of payment receipt as well as picture of back side of the card in order to process your payment.
Card above $100 is not acceptable."
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November 14, 2018 at 12:33 PM by an anonymous user from: Melbourne, Florida, United States
Gotta love people trying to scam people!
"On Mon, 11/12/18, LEGAL DEPARTMENT ACE <cashadvancedept.corp@gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: NOTICE ; 11/12/2018 : Case File # 1:17-CR-269 ;
To: "CASH ADVANCE USA" <cashadvancedept.corp@gmail.com>
Date: Monday, November 12, 2018, 1:18 PM
Petition File Submitted on
November 12th, 2018 – DEBT
SETTLEMENT
Failure to response may
result in a warrant being issued for your arrest .
Hereby we inform
that you are obliged to come as a defendant to District
Court of Appeals on November 13th 2018, at 11:00 a.m. for
the hearing of your case of defaulting on a
LOAN, CASE
#1:17-CR-269.
You are summoned and required
to serve upon Plaintiff. Pursuant to 17 U.S.C § 485 (c) we are automatically
authorized for filing of this petition and taking any action
to collect this debt from you.
We are hereby directed to
withhold any restrained financial accounts and/or cease any
income executions immediately .A violation of the petition
filed to collect this debt may be actionable pursuant to
362 (h) or as contempt of court and punished
accordingly.
THERE ARE 3 SERIOUS
ALLEGATIONS AGAINST YOU:
(1) VIOLATION OF FEDERAL
BANKING REGULATION
(2) COLLATERAL CHECK
FRAUD
(3) THEFT BY
DECEPTION
Dear Debtor,The
Attorney General's Legal Affairs&Investigation
Section has received the complaint regarding your bad loan.
In an effort to make you aware of information received by
the Attorney General's Legal Affairs&Investigation
Section concerning your Case File, we are sending this
complaint to you for response.
We
would appreciate it if you would provide your
written reply within 24 hours of receipt of this request so
the complaint can be resolved without further action by the
(AIPOFS) Annually Investigation Practices Of Federal
System. I would
like to personally offer you good faith adjustment if you
agree the terms of the resolution so we can confirm with the
Groups Of Attorneys that the resolution offered is
acceptable and close the file. If you deny then I apologies
but seek to issue arrest warrant against you in 24 hours you
will be taken either from your work place or home under the
custody of 48 hours after bail this matter will be fully
revealed in courthouse after the default
judgement.Under Section 51 U.S.C 376 the company
can collect the funds before three years of the contract as
per the Federal Government Right to collect the debt first
accrued, except as otherwise provided by law.
Which carries a maximum sentence of 4 years of prison and
a fine up to $3,000.Legal costs and interest may be
added to the debt.
YOU CAN APPLY FOR AN OUT OF COURT RESOLVE OPTION (OOCR): All
you do is email us back for taking care of this matter
outside the court house.
PS. If you fail respond within 24 hours this Legal Action
will be activated. You will be Entitle for an OOCR, so
please EMAIL us back ASAP.
By requesting an offer in compromise, but if you are failed
to do that then we shall start the process of pressing those
charges against you.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
NOTE: Please send all communication electronically to this
email asap.
Sincerely,Rachel WatsonSenior Investigation Officer
(Collection)
Department-Laws &
Enforcement
Re: NOTICE ; 11/12/2018 : Case File # 1:17-CR-269 ;
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 12:14 PM
From:
"Jennifer Haight" <jenhaight@yahoo.com>
To:
"LEGAL DEPARTMENT ACE" <cashadvancedept.corp@gmail.com>
This email was in my spam mail and I was not aware of any outstanding loans. Can you please attach the appropriate paperwork so that I may research this matter further? Thank you
Sincerely,
Jennifer Haight
SMILE = Small Moments In Life Everyday
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Re: NOTICE ; 11/12/2018 : Case File # 1:17-CR-269 ;
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 12:18 PM
From:
"LEGAL DEPARTMENT ACE" <cashadvancedept.corp@gmail.com>
To: jenhaight@yahoo.com
Jennifer Haight
SSN: XXXXXXXX
We received your Customer ID to our FINAL COLLECTION DEPARTMENT with the amount of $1285.85.
As we having your file showing that you took a loan of $500.00 from one of our WEBSITE and you never pay your debt back to the company. Now you have to pay $1285.68 and in this amount all charges will be included along with your ignition loan amount.
A summary of your original loan with other charges provided below.
Principal: $500.00
Loan Fees: $67.33
Lender Interest: $505.99
Attorney Charges: $98.68
NSF Charges: $56.85
Other Charges: $57.00
A summary of your original loan terms is provided below.
..."
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July 30, 2018 at 3:28 PM by info
Received via email:
"This SCAM is really upsetting! They have been harassing me at work by sending emails to me that threaten that if I don’t pay the loan off, then I will go to jail for life! Luckily I looked them up online and saw that they are a scam. I knew they were when I was not able to get a phone number from them or talk to a real person. They couldn’t even tell me what company I owed money too! Here is a copy of one of the emails they sent me:
From: Advance America <attorney.jameswatson@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2018 1:39 PM
To: Advance America <attorney.jameswatson@gmail.com>
Subject: URGENT NOTIFICATION: CASE FILED- ID530436
Complaint Case File No – ID530436
Settlement Amount For Today- $1200.00
Hereby we inform that you are obliged to come as a defendant to District Court of Appeals on July 27th 2018, at 11:00 a.m. for the hearing of your case of defaulting on a LOAN, CASE #HS061217.
Last Date to File Lawsuit- July 27th 2018.
Cost of the Lawsuit-$3590.00
Legal Charges-Section 19(A), Clause 21(US).
Case Format- Fair Debt Collection(FC/SC)
As stated earlier to have the document endorsed, signed and stamped without failure and you must adhere to this directives to avoid you blaming yourself at last when we must have arrested and jailed you for life and all your properties will be seized and bank account will be confiscated too.
Three allegations are been charged as under:
1) Under Section 19 U.S.C 7859 Violation Of Federal Banking Regulation
2) Under Section 37U.S.C 2342 Collateral Cheque Fraud
3) Under Section 42U.S.C 5619 Theft By Deception
I would like to personally offer you good faith adjustment if you agree the terms of the resolution so we can confirm with the Groups Of Attorneys that the resolution offered is acceptable and close the file. If you deny then I apologies but seek to issue arrest warrant against you in 24 hours you will be taken either from your work place or home under the custody of 72 hours. We have investigated and found out that you didn’t have any idea when the fraudulent deal was committed with your information’s/identity and right now your ID is placed on our website as a wanted person, I believe you know that it will be a shame to you and your entire family because after then it will be announce in all the local channels. If necessary you have a right to obtain a lawyer for your protection. You are kindly asked to have an identity document with you. Personal appearance is compulsory. Please bring all documents and witnesses relating to this case with you to Court on your hearing date.
Case information and courthouse address will be sent to your mailing address in next three to seven business days.
Note: If you do not attend the hearing the judge may hear the case in your absence.
To resolve this issue contact us during the working hours Monday to Friday 09:00 AM to 05:00 PM EDT by reply back to this E-mail to get in touch with the representative..
Regards,
Legal & collection Department
Cash Advance.
I then got another letter today:
We received your Customer ID to our FINAL COLLECTION DEPARTMENT with the amount of $1285.85.
As we having your file showing that you took a loan of $500.00 from one of our WEBSITE and you never pay your debt back to the company. Now you have to pay $1285.68 and in this amount all charges will be included along with your ignition loan amount.
A summary of your original loan with other charges provided below.
Principal: $500.00
Loan Fees: $67.33
Lender Interest: $505.99
Attorney Charges: $98.68
NSF Charges: $56.85
Other Charges: $57.00
A summary of your original loan terms is provided below.
If you are still willing to resolve this matter outside courthouse, you need to make this payment. Once your account will be paid in full with zero balance then we will send you a Payment Receipt stating that your account has been paid in full with zero balance.
If you will ignore this E-mail, we will download the case against you and once your case will be downloaded on your Name and Social thereafter we will send you the court paper at your door step as well as your employee which is in our file. In courthouse you have to pay Seven Thousand Five Hundred Ninety Dollars.
If you have any questions or concerns, our Customer Support Team is available SEVEN days a week to help answer all of your questions via E-mail.
*If your payment is returned for any reason, this receipt for your payment will be considered null and void and we will be forced to start collection procedures. SM Law Group & ACS does not warrant that the content of this correspondence is error-free. For the most accurate and up to date information about your account and/or terms of use of SM Law Group & ACS products please see your agreement and/or account information on the SM Law Group & ACS Department.
Customer Notice: Payday advances should be used for short-term financial needs only, not as a long-term financial solution. Customers with credit difficulties should seek credit counseling."
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April 16, 2018 at 8:18 AM by an anonymous user from: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Just got an email from them; knew it was a scam
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