Victim Location 48451
Type of a scam Credit Repair/Debt Relief
Called to help me process student loan forgiveness. Wanted me to create a student account on the NSLDS website and share my password. I already had an account and I logged in but refused to share my password. They wanted to know about how much I was currently paying on my loans and was encouraging the completion of the Loan Forgiveness process. I was an [censored] and shared my email address with him – 🙁
He wanted to know my annual income from my tax form and then transferred me to a supervisor. Supervisor was ready to help complete the process, confirmed my email address, and asked for my password. I told her, like I told the prior person -I did not feel comfortable sharing my password. She continued to explain that they could not proceed without my password. I told her I wanted to check out the agency before I shared my password and I asked for a phone number. She gave me one with an extension and told me I had two hours for the phone number. I called the US Dept. of Ed. (#160805008859) and verified that I do NOT need to share any personal information, including my password or email – that I could complete the paperwork from their website and that I could check the name of the agency with the ScamPulse.com. So, I call the "National Student Loan Forgiveness Department" back at the number they gave and they answered "US Federal Loan Forgiveness Center". He wanted to know how much I owed in Loans and my email address. He said I could qualify up to over 70% of loan forgiveness. Instead of sharing my email address – I suggested the person he wanted to transfer me to could call me back and the guy hung up on me.