I am looking for owner info.

We received calls from Sgt. Max Green and then Officer Carl Jones.  They too were from the Financial Crime Investigation Department.

I just got a call from a 'Matthew Davis' claiming he was an officer with warrants for my arrest becasue I didn't pay a cash advance loan of $1000.00.   I could hardly understand him with his heavy Indian accent and the background noise sounded as if he was in some type of loading dock.....very loud. The number alone was suspicious (52797982) so I did not confirm my identity even though he had my name and last four of my social. He told me I needed to call back to an Annapolis, MD phone number (443)221-4534 with a case number and once he started reading off the 'charges' against me, I hung up.

the number that called my husband today was 5299  so just a small change so we will also report them thanks for the info they are still at it for now we need to take this down god lord they called his mother first and had our sons name.................. good luck all

these people are frauderster they call from different numbers everytime they get shut down, dont confirm anything or give them you time they are idiots

I got a call at work from an Office Nelson stating that I was being charged with Bank Fraud and that I had to pay $712 by Credit or Debit Card Immediately or I would be arrested.  They wanted me to fax Credit Card Authorization with a copy of my drivers license.  The man was Middle Eastern and had all of my personal information.  He wanted my cell phone number which I declined.  He said that I owed a loan to USA Fast Cash.  I had the same kind of calls come in to my employer about 6 months ago that went as far as leaving messages with very foul language and calling my supervisor and cursing her out also.  I am glad that I found this site so I can now file a complaint.

My sister got a call from Officer Robert in regards to me! He said he was with Financial Crimes Investigation the number was 1-206-801-5292. He said Robert was his name but he was Middle Eastern (Clue #1!)
Said I took out a payday loan that was never repaid (clue #2-I dont do loans)
Messed up part is he had ALL my personal information and BANK information!!! Threatened to press charges and what not! I know fraud and I know gimmicks. I didn't fall for it but I started the search and found this website to Im sharing my story.

I received a call at my job from 052797982 today and I work at a company that I get calls from all kinds of numbers so I answered it.  They claimed to be with the Financial Crime Investigation and I was being charged with 3 fraudulant charges.  First person I spoke to was David Nelson and his supervisor Kevin Smith, both very american names, but very heavy accinents.  When they told me I had to fax them a letter stating that I authorize them to charge my bank card 725.00,proof of identification, and have it notorized I stated that it sounded very suspicious. They gave me the 206-801-5292 as their call back number and when I called back they would not give me the name of thier company or the mailing address.  I am not sure how to resolve this matter, but I will be calling the sheriffs department, I already made a complaint on the consummer affairs.com website and I will do whatever it takes to get this to stop.  I will not be harrassad or taken advantage of for something that I did not do or a loan that I never had.

I got a message from a 201-801-5292 number two days ago. They said I need an attorney to call them...if I don't call they could only wish me good luck as the situation unfolds upon me...or something like that. He said he was officer mike...I got a similiar call about 5 months ago from a female. This is so upsetting,  because I don't want to be harrassed like this...what can I do?

I will be adding this in when I report them.  I received the call this morning, at 6:17 and 6:18 AM... They are not even obeying the telemarketing call times, which start at 8:00 am and end at 9:00pm (my time not theirs) to reference Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991.

I was called from the 52797982 and 052797982 numbers on Jan 29th.

Got a message yesterday at work from these jokers to call back at 206-801-5292.  So I called back because he used my SS# in the message.
He said I owed $350 from a payday loan company and had until 1/29/10 to
pay or I would be served with papers.  I told him he was nuts and started
asking questions (he knew my address and bank name.)  His name is
Eric Jackson from California.  I got off the phone and called "US FAST
CASH" and they have no record of me.  I contacted the Sheriffs Dept,
BBB and FTC.

POSTED BY LAMET

It really helps if you take the time to read what has been posted about this scam and report them to the proper authorities.

THEY WILL NOT STOP -until you file the FORMAL COMPLAINTS - and TELL THEM YOU KNOW THEY ARE A SCAM!

they even call people who they use as reference and harras them how do i get rid of this number?

Caller called from 52797982, left a message with my name and my social security number. I could not understand much more other than he was claiming it was a legal matter and that I was to go to the courthouse on Jan 21st. My fiancee had to change his phone number for something like this about 3 months ago. BEWARE!!!!

ITS A SCAM - ALL OVER INTERNET AND NEWS FOR OVER ALMOST 2 YEARS NOW.

File complaints as outlined by the W Virginia Attorney General..  

FYI - the BBB report of this scam was not released until a YEAR after it started!  SO FORGET THE BBB....

Fake Debt Collectors ? Terrorizing Consumers

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5621205&page=1


MORE ON FAKE DEBT COLLECTORS
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-9141
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/call4action/17285785/detail.html
http://www.800helpfla.com/newsletter/2008/092008.html


http://www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam.cfm
Attorney General Darrell McGraw took the extraordinary step today of warning the public about a band of scam artists making threats to consumers who allegedly obtained Internet payday loans in West Virginia and across the nation. The consumers they threaten never obtained a loan at all or paid it off years ago.

Internet payday loans are short-term loans or cash advances, usually for 14 days, made over the Internet via interactive web sites and secured by an agreement authorizing debits of the loan and all fees owed from the consumer?s checking account. These loans typically charge interest rates ranging from 600-800 APR and are unlawful in West Virginia.

The scam artists, who speak English with a foreign accent, call themselves ?U.S. National Bank,? ?Federal Investigation Bureau,? ?United Legal Processing? and numerous other phony names. They refuse to disclose real names and addresses and are believed to be operating ?off the grid? from homes, automobiles, or from off shore locations or foreign countries, including India. Since the scammers have kept themselves purposely well hidden, thus far no law enforcement agencies have succeeded in locating or shutting them down.

The scammers typically pose as law enforcement officers, investigators, lawyers, and bankers and threaten consumers that they will be arrested for ?bank fraud? or other fictitious crimes unless money is wired immediately. They simultaneously scare and confuse consumers by using meaningless legalese gobbledygook phrases such as, ?We are downloading warrants against you? or ?We are filing an affidavit against you.? Consumers who don?t immediately fall for the scam are warned, ?Only God can help you now.?

The scammers almost always call consumers at work several times a day, and tell their supervisors, ?Your employee has committed fraud and is about to be arrested.? Such threats have proven unsettling even to the most savvy consumers and employers who suspect the calls are fraudulent.

Attorney General McGraw stated, ?Ordinarily my office protects consumers from fraudulent activities by seeking injunctions in court. But legal action cannot be taken until the scam artists can be located. Even then, it is unlikely that the persons behind the fraudulent calls and extortionist threats would obey a court order. In this case, the consumer?s best defense is to be armed with the knowledge of the scam so that all demands for money can be resisted, despite the false but scarey threats of arrest.?

McGraw added, ?Because the fraudsters make a special point of calling consumers repeatedly at work, employers must understand that the consumers are innocent victims of a criminal enterprise and cannot stop the calls from coming. I also wish to assure the citizens of West Virginia that my office will continue to do everything possible to locate and shut down the outlaw debt collectors.?

More information about this fraudulent debt collection scheme is available at the Attorney General?s website, www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam. Any consumers who have been threatened by these persons or wish to file a complaint about another consumer matter may do so by calling the Consumer Protection Hot Line, 1-800-368-8808, or by obtaining a complaint form from the Attorney General?s web site.

It's a debt collection 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, 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.wvago.gov
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
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-310-909-8245
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-310-499-9983


Scam alert: Bogus debt collectors
By Leslie McFadden ? Bankrate.com
Monday, Aug. 3
Posted 2 p.m.
Bankrate reporter Leslie McFadden contributed this entry.
This scam isn't technically about credit cards, but it is scary enough to post a warning. The Better Business Bureau issued an alert today saying consumers across the country are getting phone calls from bogus debt collectors claiming default on a payday loan. Of course, the consumer needs to pay a large fee to avoid arrest -- as much as $1,000.
The caller poses as a lawyer, and may threaten extradition to face trial if the consumer doesn't pay up immediately.
What makes these calls alarming -- and perhaps convincing -- is that the perpetrators reference the consumer's personal information, such as the person's Social Security number, driver's license number, previous bank account numbers, home address -- even personal references.
"The amount of information they have is really troubling," says BBB spokeswoman Alison Southwick. She adds that the amount of data points to a possible security breach.
Spread the word to your friends and family: Don't give out personal or financial information to an unknown caller. Scammers can spoof Caller ID to display different numbers, so trust your instincts over technology.
The BBB offers these tips:
?    Ask the debt collector to provide official documentation which substantiates the debt.
?    Do not provide or confirm any bank account, credit card or other personal information over the phone until you have confirmed the legitimacy of the call.
?    File a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission online if the caller is abusive, uses threats or otherwise violates federal telemarketing laws or the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
?    File a complaint with the Better Business Bureau online if you believe a debt collector is trying to scam you.

He keeps calling me and workt telling me i have a lawsuit agains me and i was going to jail. It has been going on over two years.He seems very angry when you speak with him.Looked Looked peninuls crime investigation dept. and it arab cybre crime unit.
be careful

I just got the same call today. They told me a owed $600.00 for a payday loan & was going to be arrested if I didn't give them a prepaid visa for the $600.00 Also told me they were going to contact my employer & friends & really embarrass me. Very thick middle eastern accent & said his name was "john green" alot of noise in background also. He also wanted me to fax him a copy of my drivers license. I contacted Attorney Generals office along with local law enforcement. It is a scam do not send any money, they are nothing but lowlife scum of the earth

they called me in the morning but i didnt answer so they left a message saying that it was a very sensitive matter n to call back and if i dont call back the only thing they could do is wish me good luck ... so i called them back n they supposely read me an affidavit and i was in debt to them in the amount of 395.00 for a supposely loan that i took thru internet payday loan , they had all my information !!! they said that the only way to pay the 395.00 back is thru debit or credit card ( that started to sound weird ) ,they told me to get a lawyer that they was going to take me to court if i didnt pay .... i got mad and cursed them out n my husband took the phone and told them to stop harrassing me and they started cursing n it kept going back n forth ... after that they didnt call back !!! i googled the number n found out im not the first person to go thru this with the same people .... but i got the last laugh !!! i started calling them n harrassing them and they told me sorry n to please stop abusing them n that they were calling from india !!! DIRTY B*****DS !!! THATS WHY IS NOT GOOD TO PUT UR PERSONAL INFORMATION ONLINE !!! I LEARN MY LESSON !!!

Was looking for someone named "Lisa Rutledge" stating he was from the fedral crime investigation dept. in regards to a legal matter. Gave 206-801-5292 as a call back number.

I received a call today from this person stating his name was Officer Jack of Daniels of all things to say. I told him that I would need to take a message and he then asked me for my cell phone number. I refused to give any information. He had a very thick Middle Eastern accent. I asked for the telephone number and his name.  I then asked him if his name was the same as the liquor. He said no. What a moron.

GOT CALL FROM CALLER ID 052797721 TO CALL THIS NUMBER BACK. GAVE NAME AS 'OFFICER TOMMY BROWN' FORM THE 'FINANCIAL CRIME INVESTIGATION DEPT'. THESE ARE THE SAME MIDDLE-EASTERN CALLERS WHO USE 800-263-2153 AND 714-400-0559-CHECK OUT THOSE NUMBERS ON THIS WEBSITE TOO. THEY ARE AN UNAUTHORIZED COMPANY TRYING TO COLLECT ON LOANS FOR A CASH ADVANCE COMPANY. IGNORE THEM!

Got the same call today and a man named Kevin Johnson aswered the phone may I help you he stated that he was a Officer.