I got a phone call on March 28, 2010 with a threat of going to be arrested and expect a police officer to be at my home for an arrest and also there will be a warrant issued and they will be at my place of employment.  He did give me my last 4 digits of my ss#.  That makes me nerves.  I did not get his name but he had an strong accent and I could not understand him well.  The telephone number is 1-770-217-1846.  I am very upset because I believe this is a cruel game someone is playing.  It needs to be stopped.  I'm glad that I looked up this website to find this information I feel a whole lot better.  I am an upstanding citizen of the United States of America and do not deserve to be harrass by threats of going to prison.  Very mean!!!!!!!!!

same thing happened to an older member of my family.  claimed to be American Eagle Sweepstakes and said due to Obama law needed %1 up front.  total scam.  name given as 'Jack' something.

I got a call today saying they are calling from the federal trade commission and told me i won a sweepstakes and told me in order to get the money i have to westren union them 1% of the amount of money before i can get the money

Said his name was Adam and he was calling about a paid day loan my husband got over the inter three years ago. He demanded I give him a credit card or a warrant was going to be put out on my husband. I asked if this was the case how come we were never contacted via mail. He said he would send something as soon as we paid today. Right ! I said give me the name of the company I will contact them myself. He said it was TJ Frank Corp. nothing came up when I looked it up. He said the number was 202 658-7120. He called from INTl. Number 779-9079

Yes I keep getting the same message from a guy claiming he is Ricky Jones, and Frank Jackson, the same guy over and over, I have complained to the FBI, attorney general and BBB..claiming there is some case against me...it is getting a little ridiculous, because the calls are coming in at work. I am not sure what to do now...

They called both my husband's cell and mine.  They have called many times before and we know better thank God!  I called my local Sherriff's Dept.  after the first call to ask about my "warrant"  since he was supposedly gonna download my warrant that afternoon, and I said go right ahead, Luckily for me the officer said to disregard all those calls we were getting that it was a SCAM!!!!  So now we just tell them when we do answer the phone to hold on the line while I call the local FBI office, so we can all talk on 3 way!  Funny enough these guys hang up???  Not sure why??  Then never fails they call again in a few months and we go through the whole process again.  Maybe I should just change my cell ##!  

By the way it was Officer James Walker, terribly thick middle eastern accent.  Called from 83-254-6129.  Said I need to call 202-658-7120!

I got a call yesterday and this morning from a James Cornell and he stated i needed to call him back and if i didnt then i would be very sorry and for me to be prepared to face the consequences. he spoke to our receptionist and cussed her out and wouldnt give her a name or number of any sort.  He said he had my social but that he couldnt give it to me in a message but just said the last 4 digits were 2345 which trully is not.  Yesterday he called from 832546129 and today from 2026587120.

I am receiving threatening phone calls from Adam Smith.  When I call him back it just plays "Deck the Hall" twice and then disconnects me. This man has my social security number and is threatening to put a "hold"on it liek that can happen.  Anyway he says there will be an arrest and he threatens my co workers.  I don't know what to do to keep these people from using my social security number, very scared.

I received a call from this number today. He said that he was James Cornell, and that if cared about my social security number that I would call him back.He also called my workplace, demanded to speak to my boss, and was extremely rude to the office workers. I am filing a police report,and when I called him back I told him just that. He replied," Oh,, you called the police, well what we are going to do is block your social security number, and you just wait... you will see, you watch, you will get arrested!" He had terrible English, and he sounded Indian.

Caller calls our business and asks for a certain person.  Threatens her with legal action if she doesn't pay her bill but won't say what company they are calling from. Very persistant and rude. Actually swore at us and hung up when we tried to ask them for information.  Obviously not a professional company.

some guy with bad english name Frank Jackson called my job just now and left a message about some debt bs.  He gave my ssn and said the this is a legal matter and give the a call 1-202-658-7120 or I will be sorry!!!

FYI...the Attorney General of West Virginia recently issued a press release warning consumers of this debt collection scam. Here's the weblink:  http://www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam.cfm

Called  me at work three times within 3 hours with harassing/threatening remarks such as " God won't be able to help you". His accent is very thick and distorted.

ABC News just did an investigative expose on this particular scam operation. Here's the report:  http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5621205&page=1

ABC News just did an investigative expose on this particular scam operation. Here's the report:  http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5621205&page=1f

It's a scam. And all their threats are false and illegal.

This is a very active group of scammers, many of whom are calling from India (and probably other countries) and are in cahoots with a group of American pay day loan scammers. They attempt to extort money from consumers with a myriad of false and illegal threats, and alternately pose as debt collectors, federal and state law enforcement officers, lawyers and bankers. Their trademark is to use meaningless legalese gobblygook phrases like "We are downloading warrants against you" or "We are filing an affidavit against you." Another trademark phrase is to threaten the consumer with something like this ridiculous phrase: "If you don't pay then only God can help you."

Typical of many financial scams of this variety, they usually demand payment via Western Union or MoneyGram or credit card. They use any number of phony names such as US National Bank, Federal Investigation Bureau, US Legal Investigation Bureau, Hopkins Law Office, Sonic Bank, United Legal Processing, Morgan Associates, United Pay Services, National Processing, White Collar Crime Unit and many more.  These criminals also use many phone numbers from many area codes; they're probably using caller-id spoofing software and/or VoIP to disguise their real location.

The main thing to remember is that anytime someone calls you demanding money to prevent your arrest, or demanding your lawyer's name so they can sue you, it is ALWAYS a scam. No debt collector (let alone criminals posing as debt collectors) has the authority to have anyone arrested for anything. (And it's illegal to them to threaten such a thing.) And since these foreign dirtbags routinely impersonate law enforcement, it's also important to remember that American law enforcement officers aren't in the business of debt collection.  (Debt is a civil, not a criminal, matter.)

The bottom line is, these are criminals trying to steal your money.

A consumer posting a complaint about these same scammers at http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-718-831-7157 notes that 718-831-7157 is associated with an India-based "outsourcing" telephone bank.  Though a reverse search on WhitePages.com shows that 718-831-7157 is an unlisted land line in New York City, information on Debtbuyers.Com shows that that number is used by India-based Intellisourze. (Source: http://www.debtbuyers.com/debtbuyers.asp ) My guess is that it's a VoIP phone number.

This is another piece of the puzzle that fits in perfectly with other information about this scam. There are some reports on 800Notes that have suggested that the crooks behind this offshore scam are also the crooks behind the notorious Bass/Ellis Crosby & Assoc./States Predisposition scams in Florida and Georgia. The interesting thing is that the number of complaints on here about the US National Bank/US Legal Investigation/Federal Investigation scam skyrocketed *after* April 7, 2008 when Florida obtained a $1.3 million judgment against Ted Ellis Crosby, shutdown his operations and barred him from ever conducting debt collections in Florida (Read http://myfloridalegal.com/newsrel.nsf/newsrel ... 5257424005858A6 ) There's certainly a good chance that the crooks placing these calls from India are doing so on behalf of the American crooks behind the Crosby/Bass/States Predisposition scams.

Here's the contact information for the phone bank in India:

IntellisOurzE BPO
701, Sapphier, Nr. Cargo Motors,
C.G. Road Navrangpura,
Ahmedabad - 9. (Guj.) INDIA.
E-Mail: info@intellisourze.com
Website: www.intellisourze.com

A check on the domain name "intellisourze.com" shows that the website and name registration was created on May 8, just one month *after* the Crosby scams were shut down in Florida:

Domain Name: INTELLISOURZE.COM
Registrant:  Pragra Infratech Pvt. Limited.
Email:  ankur.ranpariya@pragra.com  
908, Aksaht Tower, Nr. ICICI Bank
Opp. Rajpath Club, S.G. Highway
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India 380054
Tel. +91.7926871353
Creation Date: 08-May-2008
Expiration Date: 08-May-2009
Domain servers in listed order: ns5.znetindia.com ns4.znetindia.com
(Source: http://whois.domaintools.com/intellisourze.com )

Though scam calls from these crooks have been going on long before May 8, the frequency of complaints about these calls increased considerably after Crosby was shut down in early April.

This is conjecture, but appearances suggest that Crosby and company were originally running a two-pronged payday loan scam operation -- with some calls being made from Jacksonville, Florida and other calls being made from a phone bank in India (and possibly other countries); then, after the Florida Attorney General shut down the Crosby scams in Florida, the Crosby crooks transferred most of their scam efforts to the India phone bank.

If you are targeted by these criminals, be sure to report them to all the following federal and state law enforcement agencies (most of which you can do online or over the phone):

1) The U.S. Secret Service is responsible for protecting the country's financial infrastructure and payment systems from international and domestic threats. Call or write your local Secret Service field office to alert them to the details of this attempted extortion. The addresses and phone numbers for the local Secret Service field offices are listed at http://www.secretservice.gov/field_offices.shtml or in your phone book.

2) Alert the FBI at https://tips.fbi.gov  Be sure to tell the FBI that you are being targeted by extortionists over the phone. And if the crooks claim to be law enforcement or lawyers, officers of the court or bankers, be sure to include that information in your report.

3) File a complaint with your local police. Most police departments will take a report over the phone.  Be sure to tell them that you're being targeted by an extortionist and give them all the details.

4) File a complaint your state's attorney general, the contact information for whom is at www.naag.org

5) File a complaint online with The Federal Trade Commission at https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en

If these crooks call back, promise them nothing, pay them nothing and tell them nothing other than that you know they're a scam and that you've reported them to law enforcement. (And be sure to report them to all the agencies above each time they call you.)

By the way, here's just a small sample of numbers used by this particular group of scammers. Read the reports and you'll see the same pattern time and again -- phony organization names, thick foreign accents, and oddly worded threats that are so melodramatic and ridiculous that it's laughable:

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-925-262-1327
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-678-954-6346
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-341-4004
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-856-831-0640
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-949-743-1140
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-410-505-8128
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-917-464-2534
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-210-858-6602
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-775-2121
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-949-743-1156
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-245-1402
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-245-0922
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-723-5572
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-2863
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-718-831-7157
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-2857
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-858-244-0444
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-954-678-9724
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-610-571-3252

Got a call from someone named Frank Jackson asking for Kelly Smith with the same theatening bs story.  The guy has very bad accent and that leads me to believe all these calls are originated from a offshore call center even though they have a US phone number.

The same guy called and left a message here today too.  Only he said he was officer james walker.  Not sure about the first name because of the bad english.  Glad I was able to find this website before returning his call.  Thanks alot!

I received the same phone call only he identified himself as James Walker and used the same story. He said he was with the DJF Corporation, which shows no such company when Googled. Sounds like BS to me to. He also had a terrible accent and barely spoke or understood English.

Adam Smith called stating there is some law suit against me from some criminal investigation place, sounds like BS.  I filed a complaint with my local police dept. and told him to stop calling me, this is the 2nd time now.  He has a terrible accent, barely speaks english.