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I was contacted by a woman, with a heavy accent, who proceeded to try and verify my identity. Without divulging my information, i managed to get information out of her about a company called E. W. A., and how they were trying to serve a legal document to my home address but needed someone to be home. I asked more about the legal document and the lady provided me with a 1866 phone number and document #. When i called, a man answered saying he represented E.W.A or Ellis-Wells & Associates who was then representing Fifth 3rd Bank, and that i was about to be sued by them because of overdrafting and negative balances. I was quickly thrown some numbers of what i owed, 3100 something but that they could take care of it now for half the price, no court or bag credit reporting. I asked him for documentation to prove that i was being sued by the bank because i had an account in the past, i had overdrafted and put my account in the negative right before i had paid the difference and closes the account. I was wanting to see what information E.W.A. had incase i missed something or didn't do what i thought. I was provided a dropbox letter through my email, which they had, and this official letter was sent to me. Because of the high amount of scams today i googled the company immediately and found out it was a possible scam. Because of all the scams that have been tried on me I've learned that if you call them back and tell them you know it's a scam, the scammers usually get irrate because they are used to getting paid not someone calling them out. The scammer proceeded to call me an explicit version of a "redneck", if i would take care of my stuff this wouldnt happen and then hung up. I called 3 more times and was forwarded. I tried a 4th and the number didn't exist anymore. I tried the original woman's number which did not exist anymore. I went back to my email and tried reloading the "official" legal document and Dropbox informed me that the document was removed by the sender.