201-301-6859
NJ, US
 | Karen 2012-09-10 23:50:12 Debt Collector |
This woman is calling me giving me a return number of 201-301-6859 stating she is calling from the fort mill, sc police department and I owe for a cash advance check and if I do not pay almost a thousand dollars I will be arrested. Me and my sister called the county and city police department this is a SCAM.
| John Schaeffer 2012-08-28 20:14:20 Unknown |
Officer female with heavy accent says complaint against my SSN, called me at work. Have no idea how they got my work number. This happened before and it was a scam.
| Anrgy 2012-08-13 20:15:11 Unknown |
I got the same call. It came up as 911 on the caller ID. Lady with a heavy accent said she was with the Wyoming State Police Department. Said if I don't call back soon, there will be a warrant for my arrest. It's a scam. Not worth the call back. Why don't they get a real job, instead of trying to steal from others.
| seth 2012-08-08 20:14:53 Unknown |
I'm from Michigan n got the same thing! This is crazy bc they have info of the police dept from me. I dnt believe it bc my buddy is a state cop who's never heard of her! Ridiculous what Ppl will do to get $ can't do honest hard work like most of us!
| Tallen085 2012-08-01 23:37:39 Unknown |
I have as well gotten a call from 201-301-6858, I am from east texas and she says she is deputy jessica watson and I am in big trouble.. I ask her for what she said that she has gotten a complaint against me. That fast cash 500 has turned me in for none payment , that there will be several criminal charges against me that I will be locked up for a long time.. She claims I borrowed 350 and now owe 1389 or something like that... She said if I do not pay I will be charged with bank fraud, check fraud and some other fraud I couldnt understand what she was saying.... SHe says if I do not come up with 150 bucks by tomorrow morning they are sending police to my house....Oh and when I look up fast cash 500 there is no number for me to call and find out what the heck is going on...Please I need advice on what to do.....
| Kathy 2012-07-31 19:00:04 Unknown |
I got the same call and was told to call back at that number also.
| Lenny 2012-07-27 16:45:23 Unknown |
I have also received calls from this number. iwas told that if i didn't return calls they would have me arrested at my work place. I have gotten at least 20 calls a day from this number. This is getting very annoying!!
| Lenny 2012-07-27 16:13:56 Unknown |
I hav also received several phone calls from this number saying if i don't contact them i will be arrested. what the hell is going on here!
| victoria 2012-07-20 03:14:10 Unknown |
I received a call from a deputy watson claiming to be nypd the callback number was 201-301-6859. They claim there is a problem with my social. And I will be arrested if I don't contact them
| Alfalfa 2012-07-16 21:02:36 Unknown |
By BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) , CINDY GALLI and MATTHEW MOSK (@mattmosk)
June 7, 2012
Hundreds of thousands of cash-strapped Americans have been targeted by abusive debt collectors operating out of overseas call centers suspected of links to organized crime in India, law enforcement officials told ABC News.
The calls are part of a massive scam, one that appears to target struggling Americans -- especially those who have gone online to apply for payday loans. Armed with personal information from those pilfered applications, the threatening callers, who claim to be debt collectors poised to initiate legal action, have managed to pry loose millions of dollars from their victims -- even when the victims never owed money in the first place.
"This is what we call a phantom debt collection scam," said Jon Leibowitz, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. "It's a very pernicious and innovative new fraud."
Working through call centers in India, the commission estimates that the criminals have dialed at least 2.5 million calls, persuading already cash-strapped victims to send them more than $5 million. Some have reported receiving dozens of calls per hour. They are victims like Cindy Gervais, of New Orleans, who went online for a quick loan when her husband's car was hit by a driver who didn't have insurance.
Even though she paid the loan off, the so-called "phantom" debt collectors with Indian accents began calling to say she still owed money.
He more or less told me that if I didn't pay, they were going to have someone on my doorstep to arrest me," she told ABC News. "And that they were going to contact my place of business, and tell them what kind of person I am."
At first, she said she resisted. Then the calls became more frequent, and started to ring on her cell phone, and at the grocery distribution company where she had worked for 27 years.
"I was more or less was in panic mode because he told me there would be someone before noon at my place of business to arrest me and take me to jail," she said tearfully. "So I agreed to pay him."
After receiving scores of complaints, investigators with the FTC said they began tracking the calls, and following the payments. They alleged the payments led them to a California company run by an Indian-American named Kirit Patel, and that such scams would not be possible without American front men.
"I would say that all roads of this scam, or many of the roads of this scam, lead back to Mr. Patel," said the FTC's Leibowitz.
ABC News tracked Patel for weeks, from the suburbs of San Francisco to Austin, Texas.
Patel refused to talk. But his lawyer, Mark Ellis, said he believes it is far too early to pass judgment on his client. Ellis, a Sacramento-based attorney, told ABC News that Patel was hired for a nominal fee to set up an American shell company, and had no idea what the call centers in India were doing.
"I can tell you, he was as snookered by the people in India as anybody," Ellis said. "He's a 69-year-old man who is nearing his retirement who thought all he had to do was set up some corporations and everything was on the up and up. He's completely dismayed that he has become the lightning rod of this entire problem."
A close friend of Patel's also defended him in a brief interview at his home, saying Patel was not trying to defraud anyone -- he was just an unwitting, bit player in a larger scheme.
"If Mr. Patel was just a cog in the wheel he seems to have been a pretty big cog," Leibowitz said. "It is clear that Patel was integrally involved with this scam."
Leibowitz points to thousands of pages of financial and phone records gathered by the FTC and filed as part of a civil case brought against him in the U.S. District Court in Sacramento last month. When FTC lawyers sought to freeze his assets and prevent his business from continuing to operate, Patel responded by invoking his rights against self-incrimination. His lawyer told ABC News he has had to be careful in how he responds to the allegations in civil court "because there is a potential criminal action," but that Patel maintains the allegations against him are false.
Federal investigators said the phantom debt collection operation that allegedly benefitted from Patel's assistance was one of several that all trace back to the same small town in Western India called Ahmedabad. Callers use technology to make it appear that the calls originate inside the U.S. Victims provided ABC News with recordings of dozens of the calls, and many of the thickly accented callers appear to be reading off a script.
"Subpoenas have been readied, and Monday morning you're going to be picked up from your home," one caller says on a victim's voicemail. "And you have children. Don't worry about your children. We have a childcare department to take care of the children."
"You will be behind bars for six months," said another caller. "And once you go behind bars, you will lose your job. Once you are behind the bars, you won't get a single drop of water."
William Peerce Howard, a Tampa attorney who represents victims of harassment from debt collectors, said it takes an especially twisted criminal to use threats and coercion to pry money from someone who is already struggling financially
"These guys really are the most visible villains in America today," he said. "They make a living scaring people."
Mark Merola, of Florida, said he just panicked when the caller told him he might be arrested at the deli where he works in a Florida retirement community.
"I was nervous. I didn't want to embarrass myself, my family," he said. He used his debit card to pay the collector $576.
Afterwards, he says he realized "how stupid I was."
"It just happened so fast," he said. "I got scared."
Leibowitz said he hopes with more attention, future potential targets of the scam will recognize red flags before they turn over any money.
If callers say they are from the police, consumers should know that law enforcement officers do not collect debt for private parties. If the caller is speaking with a thick Indian accent, but calls themselves by a names such as Officer Mike Johnson, that should be a tip off. And if they're calling 40 times in two hours, that's another red flag. "Legitimate debt collectors, legitimate pay day lenders don't do those sorts of things," he said.
Merola said he would like to see anyone involved in the scam prosecuted aggressively.
"There's no place in society for these people," he said.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/phantom-debt-co ... 16512428&page=2
June 7, 2012
Hundreds of thousands of cash-strapped Americans have been targeted by abusive debt collectors operating out of overseas call centers suspected of links to organized crime in India, law enforcement officials told ABC News.
The calls are part of a massive scam, one that appears to target struggling Americans -- especially those who have gone online to apply for payday loans. Armed with personal information from those pilfered applications, the threatening callers, who claim to be debt collectors poised to initiate legal action, have managed to pry loose millions of dollars from their victims -- even when the victims never owed money in the first place.
"This is what we call a phantom debt collection scam," said Jon Leibowitz, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. "It's a very pernicious and innovative new fraud."
Working through call centers in India, the commission estimates that the criminals have dialed at least 2.5 million calls, persuading already cash-strapped victims to send them more than $5 million. Some have reported receiving dozens of calls per hour. They are victims like Cindy Gervais, of New Orleans, who went online for a quick loan when her husband's car was hit by a driver who didn't have insurance.
Even though she paid the loan off, the so-called "phantom" debt collectors with Indian accents began calling to say she still owed money.
He more or less told me that if I didn't pay, they were going to have someone on my doorstep to arrest me," she told ABC News. "And that they were going to contact my place of business, and tell them what kind of person I am."
At first, she said she resisted. Then the calls became more frequent, and started to ring on her cell phone, and at the grocery distribution company where she had worked for 27 years.
"I was more or less was in panic mode because he told me there would be someone before noon at my place of business to arrest me and take me to jail," she said tearfully. "So I agreed to pay him."
After receiving scores of complaints, investigators with the FTC said they began tracking the calls, and following the payments. They alleged the payments led them to a California company run by an Indian-American named Kirit Patel, and that such scams would not be possible without American front men.
"I would say that all roads of this scam, or many of the roads of this scam, lead back to Mr. Patel," said the FTC's Leibowitz.
ABC News tracked Patel for weeks, from the suburbs of San Francisco to Austin, Texas.
Patel refused to talk. But his lawyer, Mark Ellis, said he believes it is far too early to pass judgment on his client. Ellis, a Sacramento-based attorney, told ABC News that Patel was hired for a nominal fee to set up an American shell company, and had no idea what the call centers in India were doing.
"I can tell you, he was as snookered by the people in India as anybody," Ellis said. "He's a 69-year-old man who is nearing his retirement who thought all he had to do was set up some corporations and everything was on the up and up. He's completely dismayed that he has become the lightning rod of this entire problem."
A close friend of Patel's also defended him in a brief interview at his home, saying Patel was not trying to defraud anyone -- he was just an unwitting, bit player in a larger scheme.
"If Mr. Patel was just a cog in the wheel he seems to have been a pretty big cog," Leibowitz said. "It is clear that Patel was integrally involved with this scam."
Leibowitz points to thousands of pages of financial and phone records gathered by the FTC and filed as part of a civil case brought against him in the U.S. District Court in Sacramento last month. When FTC lawyers sought to freeze his assets and prevent his business from continuing to operate, Patel responded by invoking his rights against self-incrimination. His lawyer told ABC News he has had to be careful in how he responds to the allegations in civil court "because there is a potential criminal action," but that Patel maintains the allegations against him are false.
Federal investigators said the phantom debt collection operation that allegedly benefitted from Patel's assistance was one of several that all trace back to the same small town in Western India called Ahmedabad. Callers use technology to make it appear that the calls originate inside the U.S. Victims provided ABC News with recordings of dozens of the calls, and many of the thickly accented callers appear to be reading off a script.
"Subpoenas have been readied, and Monday morning you're going to be picked up from your home," one caller says on a victim's voicemail. "And you have children. Don't worry about your children. We have a childcare department to take care of the children."
"You will be behind bars for six months," said another caller. "And once you go behind bars, you will lose your job. Once you are behind the bars, you won't get a single drop of water."
William Peerce Howard, a Tampa attorney who represents victims of harassment from debt collectors, said it takes an especially twisted criminal to use threats and coercion to pry money from someone who is already struggling financially
"These guys really are the most visible villains in America today," he said. "They make a living scaring people."
Mark Merola, of Florida, said he just panicked when the caller told him he might be arrested at the deli where he works in a Florida retirement community.
"I was nervous. I didn't want to embarrass myself, my family," he said. He used his debit card to pay the collector $576.
Afterwards, he says he realized "how stupid I was."
"It just happened so fast," he said. "I got scared."
Leibowitz said he hopes with more attention, future potential targets of the scam will recognize red flags before they turn over any money.
If callers say they are from the police, consumers should know that law enforcement officers do not collect debt for private parties. If the caller is speaking with a thick Indian accent, but calls themselves by a names such as Officer Mike Johnson, that should be a tip off. And if they're calling 40 times in two hours, that's another red flag. "Legitimate debt collectors, legitimate pay day lenders don't do those sorts of things," he said.
Merola said he would like to see anyone involved in the scam prosecuted aggressively.
"There's no place in society for these people," he said.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/phantom-debt-co ... 16512428&page=2
| Sh 2012-07-16 20:59:36 Unknown |
I also got an call 201-301-6859. Called my job today and told my boss if I didnt call back that I would be arrested at work. They said they was from the downloading dept. but when I called the say FCC. A total scam.
| Seriously! 2012-07-12 23:04:51 Unknown |
Just received a message from telephone number 201-301-6859, 'Officer Jenny Rosen' of the 'FCC, State of New Jersey.' I called back and asked for her badge number, my case number and a number where I could personally reach her; told her once I got clearance from the State of New Jersey that she was legit I would call her back; if not, I was going to have her arrested! I DID NOT give her one second other than to answer MY questions!! Do these people have nothing better to do!?!? We need to stand strong and be aggressive with them; let them know we're NOT putting up with their BS any longer!!
| Never Stops!! 2012-07-06 10:56:19 Unknown |
Received the same call, but now they are from Philadelphia Police Department with a NJ Area Code. How stupid do they think everyone is?
Since when does Police departments collect debts?
Since when does Police departments collect debts?
| J.W 2012-06-22 21:18:51 Unknown |
I ALSO RECEIVED A CALL FROM THIS LADY AND I'M TRYING TO FIND OUT WHAT THE HELL THIS IS ALL ABOUT
| MC 2012-06-22 19:56:51 Debt Collector |
Total scam!! I have filed complaints against these people. My phone now goes to AHPD when all these numbers come in!!!!
| annoyed 2012-06-21 01:00:06 Unknown |
I received a call that came up on my cell as 911. They left a call back number of 201-301-6859. A woman with a heavy accent who said she was Deputy Watson from the Nashville Tennessee State Police Department that there had been a complaint against my social security number. She would be sending her officers to arrest me if I didn't call officer Chappy??? not sure couldn't understand her at the 201-301-6859 ext 942 and that if I didn't contact the number I will face be arrested at work or home.
| annoyed 2012-06-21 00:12:16 Unknown |
Received a 911 call on the id...they left a message a woman with a strong accent said she was Deputy Watson calling from the Nashville Tennessee State Police Department and that there was a complaint on my social security number and that if i didnt call 201-301-6859 back within 24 working hours she was having me arrested! The ext 942 office Chappy??? More threats and using YOU will be arrested! What is up with this, then the 911 disappears off of my phone.
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