They called me saying that I have a case and i told them that this is a scam call then they threatened to keep on calling me

I received a phone call from this number at work.  They gave me this phone number for my attorney to call and said the same to me that they said to Kati.

I called them after they suggested that one of our employees had "committed bank fraud."  He asked some weird question, and I responded that "I don't know." Then he told me to "go f*** yourself."

Total scam.  

They purported to be calling the Law Offices of John Case.

01/31/13 missed a call with my ringer off. Called back, man with thick accent identified 'Attorneys Office'. Said that I missed a call and wanted to know what this was regarding. He starts being very rude saying he was trying to reach a Jeremy Stone rambling on in an aggressive way. Told him I didn't know what was going on but I've been receiving a ton of messages for this guy and I don't know who he is. He kept ranting on and then called me rude and hung up on me. I called back and told him that Jeremy is not at this number and don't call me again. He started ranting on again and I told him he was very rude and I hung up. He called me back and called me a f*ing a**le, started ranting something unintelligible again and I hung up. Now I've decided to make it my mission to find out who this is and report a violation of Federal Law 47 U.S.C. 223 regarding interstate harassment.

Someone identifying himself as Alex White, with an Indian or Pakistani accent, wants me or "[my] retained attorney of record" to call immediately regarding a legal case.  All of these scammers use the same script, saying that if you don't respond all they can do is "wish you good luck as the situation unfolds on you." They then have the nerve to say "have a blessed day".  A legitimate debt collector will tell you who they're collecting for and won't make threats about arrest, etc.--debtors' prison was abolished a long time ago.

they callme every hour and when i answer theyre like you owe me money, and i tell them no i dont, he called me a f****ng bi*** and hung up.

I'm really tired of these people calling my mobile and office phones. I don't know what it is about but every time I answer, I can't understand a word that is being said.
I had the lady that called the last time repeat herself 15 times and still couldn't understand her. She thought I was just making fun of her told me to "go to hell" and then hung up.
Incredibly irritating.

I received a call from Allen Richie & Associates stating someone had filed a law suit against me for violation of check banking fraud.  They told me I had two options accept the damages and go through a criminal trial or try restoration.  They told me to take them up on the restoration I would have 45 minutes to pay $1,589.88 or they would send a fax to my HR Dept. to have me terminated, issue a warrant for my arrest, contact the three major credit bureau's to have something put on my file.  I called my lawyer who confirmed it was a scam and to do nothing.  They scared me to death as they had all my information.  They couldn't tell me who I owed money to, when I obtained the loan, only that it could have been anyone in the last 5 years!!
When I did not meet the deadline, I got a call from "911" from someone who also had a similar Australian type accent telling me that they just received my paperwork and officers will be sent to my place of work to arrest me and I should contact my attorney.  Can you believe these people!!  Unbelievable, how do we stop them.

I received a phone call from this number.  This is a business phone number the man called, asking for an employee who cannot receive phone calls.  He told me it was a legal matter.  I told the man our policy and he wanted me to take a message.  I do NOT take messages.  He told me to kiss his a _ _ and hung up.
Real professional.

Keeps telling me to have my lawyer call if now God bless me and not responsible for what unfolds

that same number keeps calling my house for my husband for saying they deposited money into his account and that is not true if u actually listen its the same guy who keeps changing his name they must really have no life take their a***s back to wherever they came from is what they need to do...

Hi Cindy...I just got a call from this number 203-992-9765 saying the same thing! That I applied for a loan and funds were deposited into my account and i never paid back and Im being sued for check fraud. WTF!! I ner had funds deposited into my account. Yes I applied for  loan but i was denied because my acct is a pre paid account. Nice try people I have prove from my bank statement that NO FUNDS were deposited. Im calling the police to report this number

Came home to a foreign man leaving a message on my answering machine and recognized his voice as the same man calling from both 760-483-3768 posing a Ron from Attorney Webster's office in California and 214-49-5697 stating he was calling from Law Offices Dallas and that he was a police officer working in this attorney office.  Contacted my local police department and the officer who responded to my home called him back and told him that he was not to call my home and that they were going to be investigating this number in TX as well as the CA number he's calling from. Now I picked up the phone while he was leaving his message that I better not ignore him and that I or my attorney should call him back. I politely told him that he has been informed by local police to not call my number and then he told called me an F*CKING M*THER W*ORE and then hung up. I am contacting the FTC and my phone carrier because this had better stop. These are harassing scam  artists who need to be shut down.

Keeps calling my work and home number and will not leave me alone. Says im am being charged with check fraud.  I ask to be left alone and wil not stop.

I received a call from this number on my cell and at work and the person who spoke very bad English stated his name was DAVID COOPER and I was going to be prosecuted for fraud due to loans I had not paid back.  He said that if I did not respond an officer from my county would show up at my home or work to arrest me.  He also stated that my HR department would be contacted and my wages would be garnished.  He told me to answer with only yes or no ansers to his questions.  When I started to ask him questions, he became extremely rude and said he was hanging up and a sheriff would be contacting me from 911.  15 minutes later, my work phone rang and the caller ID said "911". As we all know, when you get a call from the county, it does not say "911".  That's when I was 100% sure that it was a scam.  Until then, I thought I had forgot to pay something or that my identy had been stollen.  This person had my work phone, work address, cell number, home address, and my ss# its ok he got the wrong one on the phone because i have a lawyer at my disposal so when started talking s*** so did i, he hung up, i called back, last time i called i had my attorney on 3 way so when the a***ole said have ur attorney present he was right there......no more calls lmao bing.com the number it comes up as YMax Communications Corp.

Why doesn't the government shut them down??????????????They also use the FTC as being a client they represent. Here we depend on our government to protect us here as well overseas, this is happening here(a form of threat aganist American citizens). If this is allowed, what is to keep others from doing the same. Where are our taxs going in situations like this?????

Received phone call from these idiots threating to stop my social security due to fraud. How stupid can some people be. To speak with threats, foul language, baggering,. How can phone companies give these people from other countries phone numbers to abuse american citizens. Saying that I needed a lawyer and some law enforcement would be coming to arrest me. How desperate are these people to have a job doing this. They are the ones trying to install fear because of the illigeal business they conduct. They give the name of lawyer Allan Ritchie: address: 1061 Main St., Ridgepark, Ct. 066041

Karma to evil......................

Got a called from this number from a man who sounded foreign.  Asked for information about my daughter saying there was a warrant for her arrest. When I asked for further information he called me a fuc___ bit__.

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

I feel extremely stupid because I paid these people 100$. And all because I don't remember owing anyone but they said I did and I would go to jail. I want to report them and get my freaking money back. Any ideas. Desperately needing answers and help.

I also received a call from this number twice stating that either I or my attorney need to call back or "any Unfortunate events that occur would be on my head"  I received a call from the same person on 10/9/2012 from the number 917 398 5594 with the same issue.  His name was either David Furgie or Andy Furgie.  Something like this and stated he was calling from a law firm.  I did a search online and no lawsuit has been filed against me in any court.
While I do have some payday loans that I found out were illegal in my state as the lenders are not licenced I do not owe more then the principal at best and have been informed that I do not actually owe the principal either.  I am filing a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission as well as the Federal Communication Commission against this company as it is illegal to threaten criminal action for any debt owed.  The most they may do is attempt to garnish wages or file in small claims court.  Unless you have received any official court paper work they cannot do anything to you.  
I called back the number today and stated that it is illegal to threaten me and stated I would be filing charges against their business.  Hopefully I will not be bothered by them again.

Got one of these calls today - very threatening and scary ... I asked who they were and they said they were from Jamaica  and had gotten my number from homeland security .

This guy (with a heavy Indian accent - sounds like he's on drugs even; can barely understand him)has ca lled from 204-992-9765 and an 877 number.  COMPLETE scammer!  Ignore his calls.  He's trying to scare people into sending him money.A real debt collecter legallycannot give any persanal information about the debt OR the debtorto anyone but the debtor and that includes voicemail, which this idiot has done.  Alsi, your wages cannot be garnished just from someone calling your employer.  Garnishment are processed through court after a judgement has been placed against you.It's hurting times so there's a lot of scam artists/theives out there.  DO NOT give someone money just because they say you owe.  There's even people out there making up fake invoices and sending them to businesses hoping they will get paud.

I received a call from this number on my cell and at work and the person who spoke very bad English stated his name was Davey Jones and I was going to be prosecuted for fraud due to loans I had not paid back.  He said that if I did not respond an officer from my county would show up at my home or work to arrest me.  He also stated that my HR department would be contacted and my wages would be garnished.  He told me to answer with only yes or no ansers to his questions.  When I started to ask him questions, he became extremely rude and said he was hanging up and a sheriff would be contacting me from 911.  15 minutes later, my work phone rang and the caller ID said "911". As we all know, when you get a call from the county, it does not say "911".  That's when I was 100% sure that it was a scam.  Until then, I thought I had forgot to pay something or that my identy had been stollen.  This person had my work phone, work address, cell number, home address, and my social. Very scary and I am still not sure how to handle this.

I had a call from this number telling me that I was being seud for not paying back a laon that I never took out. He knew my bank account info, my social, home address, etc. I told him that I would have my lawyer call him and he said "Fine have him call and hung up" I reported it to the police and they called and the same guy called the officer a son of a b**ch and told him not to tell him how to do his job then hung up on him. It is really scary how he had all my personal info. I guess I will be changing my bank account number.

They said the same thing i told that c**** jockey i would see him in court no more calls

I have gotten about 10 calls from this number. They want me to pay some debit but they don't give me information on the company that I suppose owe money to.  The threaten me they speak very rude and they expect you to give them the money right away.  I have gotten calles from this number and other numbers with the same situation. What do I do.

its a scam people dont fall for it lol.....i just kept calling them like they called me of course they want answer haha dummies...

this number called me & said if i didn't pay back the $250.00 loan(i never got) plus interest in 59 minutes...I would be arrested.I reported it to the local police dept..the man called while I was there and started yelling at the officer,stating he was going to blow up the police dept...lol  Its a scam..

I received a call from this man with a foreign accent. He told me that I owe a payday loan and if I don't pay it I will go to jail,and they will send the an officer to my place of employment and arrest me. I told that I don't owe any payday loans. He told me to hold on so his lawyer can speak to me. I hung up. He keeps calling my cellphone but, I won't amswer. It's a scam, please don't fall for it.