Me too they wouldnt give a rec. or send me a copy of the payment I lost three hunderd dollars n u ask them to transfers u to some one else n it the same person

i just got scam of 900.00 i give to them

THIS NUMBER HAS CALLED MY HOME AND WORK/HAS MY SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER. CAN NOT GET INFORMATION FROM THESE PEOPLE. WHO SAYS THEIR NAME IS JOHN MILLER AND THOMAS CLARK

I RECEIVED SEVERAL CALL FROM THIS NUMBER @ FIRST IT WAS A LOAN FOR A CAR; A FEW DAYS LATER JOHN MILLER AND THOMAS CLARK STARTED CALLING MY HOME PHONE, LEAVING THRETHENING MESSAGE. THE MESSAGE SAYS THAT I HAVE COMPLAINTS FILED AGAINST ME, BANK FRAUD, WHICH COULDN'T BE TRUE.  I GO TO WORK, COME HOME, GO TO CHURCH. SO YESTERDAY THIS GUY CALLS ME @ MY JOB, HARASSING ME ABOUT COMPLAINTS FILED AGAINST ME, BANK FRAUD, AND OTHER CRIMINAL STUFF. I COULDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT HE WAS SAYING, HUG UP ON HIM. HE KEPT CALLING BACK WITH THE SAME STUFF AND COULDN'T EXPLAIN WHAT THE CALL WAS ABOUT.  SO I CALLED THE POLICE AND STILL COULDN'T GET THE NAME OF THE BUSINESS OR FIRM, AS THEY STATED THEY WAS A PARALEGAL AND THEY WAS A LAW FIRM. I AM TRYING TO FIND OUT WHAT BUSINESS THIS NUMBER IS AND INFORMATION ABOUT THESE TO GENTLEMENS THEY SHOULDN'T BE HARASSING PEOPLE EXSPECIALLY AT THEIR JOB.

For anyone who receives a call stating that they will be arrested for a payday loan they supposedly took out, don't be scared.  A payday loan is just that, a loan.  In this country, we DO NOT have a debter's prison.  An unpaid loan is an unpaid loan, and goes against your credit score.

I had a similar call from a Law firm that said they were calling to inform me that the bank behind the payday loan was wanting to move forward with filing charges against me from a payday loan from '09.  The original loan was for $350, but with fee's it came to over $3000.  She put me on hold, and came back saying that she spoke with the attorney that was handling the case and was able to get it reduced to $2200.  I informed her that I wanted paperwork showing me the charges that they wanted to file, the amount of the original debt, and the fees.  She told me that if I did not pay that they were going to file and then there would be nothing that they could do.  I said to send me the paperwork and I will forward it to my attorney, that they had my address.  She tried to say something else but I hung up.  That was 3 months ago, and I have yet to receive any kind of paperwork.  

I know it can be scary with someone threatening you with jail time, but just know the laws.  There is no debter's prison.

Some  lady call me yesterday 7/30/2012 stating they are from Gardner law office and they said i owe $680 i told her i dont have any loan with that company so she told me if i have an atorney i told them for what she said  they was going to come to arrest me at my job and i have to pay $8000.00 for fees and court papers i really got so nervous but not because i owe that money . i did not owe that money to any company. WHO AR THESE PEOPLE..???????why can they be punish of what they doing.they dont have anything else to do?

they call me and says to me i have a Loan with some company and she is threating me to get me arrested.This is a scam.

Ok, I just got there call  as well and they advise they will be coming to my job and serving me with some papers. I'm like see you there..I also asked him what the name of the law firm was and he was like I don't give that out????  Oh, then you hu so I called back like why did you hang up and he was like I said all I had to say.....I'm like what so then he was like I will be put downtown...I advised that idiot that I will be reporting his dumb a** to FCC ... So if we can get a lawsuit on them for harassment count me in.....

ITS A SCAM... AFTER MY CALL I GOT NOTHING ELSE FROM THEM.. THEY ARE TRYING TO GET YOU TO PAY MONEY OVER THE PHONE SO THAT YOU DON'T GET "ARRESTED" NOTHING BUT A SCAM....

I just got a call from 202-552-5197 Asking for my boyfriend when  I told her I didn't know anything about whatever she was talking about she transfered me to a guy that said he will b at my boyfriends place of business tomorrow to arrest him if he didn't call back in 15 min.. I was freaking out still am... My boyfriend filled out for all kinds of loans online with all my info im so mad at him.,. I told him not too.. thinking bout changing our phone numbers tomorrow and bank accounts. So is this a scam or shoul I b worried that my old man will b arrested????

JUST GOT A CALL AT MY OFFICE,, SOME INDIAN GUY WITH HEAVY ACCENT CLAIMS HE IS GOING TO HAVE THE AUTHORITIES ARREST ME BECAUSE, I BLEW HIM UP ABOUT CALLING MY JOB ??.. (NEVER TOLD ME WHAT CALLING ABOUT). I REALLY DIDNT CARE .. .. WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE??? MR.PATEL AND HIS BUDDIES SHOULD BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT WHO THEY CALL. WILL BE FILING COMPLAINT W/ ATTORNEY GENERAL OFFICE IN WASHINGTON D.C... CID # 202-249-7541.. CLAIMS CALLING FROM GARDNER AND DOULGLAS LAW FIRM ??... THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!

I have been receiving phone calls at my job stating that they are going to arrest me for non-payment on a loan. I did request a loan online, stupid me. So somehow they got a hold of my information and stating that I have defaulted in a loan, which is not true.  I ask that they put it in writing and he got angry and upset. He stated that the only way I can make this go away is pay the loan today. Of course I refused and started asking him a lot of questions,so he hung up. I called back with more questions, he hung up again. I called him again, and now the phone is busy.  The nerve of some people.

This is a scam for sure.  have seen it listed on a few other sites.  BOGUS.

I just received one of these messages from a man claiming to be John Miller. Saying that I received several notices via email regarding the payment of $552.00, and that I would be arrested from my place of employment, taken away, placed in jail.  And it would cost me 8,000 to get out of this situation. He refused to provide me with any other documentation, information about the company, etc.

From looking at these other posts, its definitely a scam!  But still has me upset.  This is the last time I get a payday loan EVER!.

Glad I researched this number. Two people called me on Thursday at work and had me very upset saying the same thing as previously posted. What made me suspicious is that I already paid whatever I had owed and they wanted to be get a green dot card. That really thru up red flags with me. I will be fling a complaint!!!

So I just received a call from Mr.Thomas Clark who then transferred me to Mr. Paul Smith because I told him I needed something in writing stating who I owe and a date. He wasn't able to give me any information, but he was able to tell me how I can pay them with a GreenDot Card, I told him ok and hung up then I remembered I can record my calls on my cellphone so I called back and recorded the call.

I received a call from 202-552-5197 on Friday 07/27/2012,  and  today 07/29/2012 stating that  they were from Gardner & Douglas Attorney and that I will be arrested due to I owe "American Cash" money for a payday loan that I never received. I did go online and completed an application with my personal information on it (what a big mistake) and that I I was going to be arrested for and put in jail, then stand before a judge. I asked them when was that I was suppose to have received the loan from American Cash  because I did not have it listed in my bank account , they was not able to provide that information and that I needed to pay $700.00. I asked them to provide me with the paperwork for my arrest to give to my attorney and the guy stated that I was cray and that I will get it on Monday and hung the phone up.  What made me suspicious about this caller and that when I call the phone number 202-552-5197 during the week it is busy. I was told call back another number 202-909-4141 as well and was always transferred to this same person.  I am going to contact the US Attorney as well.

This number called my 19 year old daughter, telling her she owed 500. and if she didn't pay it back she would be arrested by Monday. I called back and he told me she wouldn't be arrested but would receive paperwork on Monday. and have to be to court on Friday. then asked how much i was willing to pay to avoid everything, when i told him i had no money for him, he said well see you in court and hung up. after researching i found this web page and called him back, asking why when i typed in his number in Google it came up as a scam. he said Monday you'll know who i am, i told him i've already call the atterney general and by next week he'll know who we are. he said he didn't care and hung up. lovely.

I CAN BELIEVE THE NERVE THESE PEOPLE HAVE.THEY CALLED AGAIN LAST NIGHT AND I REALLY BLEW UP AT THEY.TOLD THESE MORONS I WAS REPORTING THEM TO INTERPOL AND U.S. AUTHORITIES,.FINALLY THE CALLS HAVE STOPPED,BUT DID SEND EMAIL TO U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL IN WSHINGTON,DC WITH ALL MY INFORMATION.DON'T MESS WITH THIS AMERICAN!

I have been getting calls from this number.

Been getting phone calls from this number on my cell phone and also at work, very hard to understand the people, they don't want to tell me what it is about, very rude. Now they started calling me at work, that's a no no.

I RECEIVED A CALL LAST NIGHT FROM A JAMES WILLIAMS AND A ROSE GILBERT,FROM THIS NUMBER SAYING I OWE X AMOUNT OF DOLLARS FOR A LOAN,THAT NEEDED TO BE PAID OR PAY 80000.00 for court on fraud charges.Wanted me to pay on a GREEN DOT MONEY PACK CARDBY THURS 7/27/2012 or a warrant would be issued.Got very upset when I said couldn't get card and that I wanted to go to court and fight this.reporting it to consumers fraud.

Hardened criminals have no conscience. This is a criminal organization operating out of India:

Phantom Debt Collectors From India Harass Americans, Demand Money

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

These people called me and really upset me. Saying that they will come nd arrest me if I don't pay $791.00 by tomorrow!!! What the hell she could not even tell me what it was about... She said her name was Rose and to get a green dot money card to send the funds!!! I just can't believe some people, how can they sleep at night.

This scam worked on me before....so when I contended that I was aware that this was a scam I was threatend with law enforcement to arrive at my place of buisness and to place me under arrest. When I explained that I didnt have time to listen to someone pretend to suprised that I didnt know about this and to be transfered to someone else ( who they stated had been in touch with my attorney...) I dont even have an attorney. He was angry and tried to argue. When I hung up he called me back just to cuss at me...THIS IS A SCAM DONT BELIVE THEM!!!!!!!  You cant be arrested for civil crime reguarding a monatary case.

HAVE BEEN GETTING CALLS FROM THIS NUMBER 202-552-5197 FOR SEVERAL DAYS.. HAVE NOT BEEN ANSWERING THE PHONE. THEN THEY CONTACTED ME AT WORK AND WAS FURIOUS WITH ME BECAUSE I KEPT SAYING I COULDN'T UNDERSTAND HIM.. SO HE PUT ME ON THE LINE WITH SOMEONE ELSE WHO WAS TO EXPLAIN WHAT WAS HAPPENING. WHEN I TOLD HER I COULDN'T UNDERSTAND HER AND SHE GOT ALL FURIOUS WITH ME AND SAID FINE YOU WILL BE SERVED PAPERS.. THEY DON'T VERIFY NOTHING TO BE SURE THEY ARE SPEAKING TO THE RIGHT PERSON. WHEN I GOT HOME FROM WORK I CALLED THE NUMBER BACK AND GOT "JIM" WHO WHEN I ASKED HIM WHAT EXACTLY THE PURPOSE OF HIS CALL WAS HE JUST KEPT SAYING YOU WILL BE SERVED PAPERS, BUT WOULDN'T TELL ME WHAT IT WAS ABOUT. I TOLD HIM I SEARCHED THIS PHONE NUMBER AND SEE IT'S A SCAM AND HE JUST KEPT SAYING THAT ANYONE CAN WRITE STUFF ABOUT ANYONE THEY WANT ON THE INTERNET AND IT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING. SO I SAID AGAIN WHAT IS THIS ABOUT AND HE PUT ME ON HOLD AND NEVER CAME BACK TO THE PHONE..

Well I just found the real Thoms J Clark he works for the Justice department in Washington DC.  I left him this guy name and infor.  Would love to see the fake Mr. Clark when he received the call from the real Mr. Clark from the us Justice Department.

Karma is a bi***!

I received a message from 202-553-5197 it came in on my cell phone as Egypt, but when you call it back it is Washington DC. I asked him to read the complaint sine I have ignored e-mails since one or two years ago he stated I laughed. So he read a laundry list of charges and he was filing on Wednesday and I would be arrested if I didn't pay $565.00 it was charged off on 5/17/2012. So I asked him for the phone number of this company there was a click and then silent breathing.  I was goggling the phone number and came across this web site.  I said are you still there he replied yes and I told him that I just emailed a copy of this phone conversation and e-mail to the US Attorney general, and advised him to lock his doo the Federal Government was coming for him to make sure his green card was up to date since there was not a chance in hell his name is Thomas Clark (by the way that just happens to be the head meteorologist on WNEP 16) I laughed.
Ok let?s get these people and show them what the federal government can do

SO here's the deal. These guys aren't even very good scam artists. I asked him what the case number was, and he gave me a bogus number?didn't follow any (WI) state nor federal case number formats. Then I asked him what state it was in, and he got that right. When I asked him what court jurisdiction it would be, he got flustered and hung up. I proceeded to call him multiple times over the course of a half hour, and now it just gives me a busy signal. Sounds like he just left the phone off the hook so he wouldn't have to deal with me. He said his name was "Jim" something, but he sounded more like Pradesh or something.

OBVIOUS scam, and not even skillful. All the same, I'll be contacting an old friend from my martial arts classes who became an assistant US attorney for this region.

Just got a call from these guys at work, have recording of conversation with them, will be forwarding to US Attorney for investigation.