i just got the call i don't know who it is that told me that they have all my information and work i called this number 2069658360 and he told me his name is officer john Patterson i called like 10 time and no one pick up then he called me back and i cant under stand him he like from India i will like to know what is going on hear sad will send police to my house and work frizz my ss# he has it all what should i do

This number called my work place threatening to arrest me!! I have no idea who he, he says John Peterson but has an Indian accent.

Keeps calling and yes definitely from India but name is so original, Devon Smith. Threats abound.

I started receiving calls from a person claiming to be Officer Matthew Rodgers, He called my job an harrassed me BIG TIME. .....He scared me so bad by telling me he was going to have me arrested by tomorrow @ my job unless i gave him 300.00 dollars to start to pay of a debt .....and to send the rest in payments....I actually fell for this..I gave him money!!!.. He was very persistent and threatening....After getting so many calls from him and dealing with him... This SOB!!!!! actually came on to me over the phone!!!! I immediately hung up and did some research......THIS IS A SCAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!...Please do not fall for this

I have been scammed by some foreign people who has called from 206-965-8360 with a strong accent and said they are officers and that legal actions will be charged against me.  I am so hurt and disappointed in myself because I am the one always telling my mother and children not to give out information unless they know who they are talking to.  These people really got me good.  It started in February 2010 and they have all of my information, my name, address, social and drivers licenses and even got me to notarize it.  They got me for almost $1500.00. They are foreigners posing as officers.  One was named Allen Warner, one named Joseph and one name Matthew Rogers.  They are stilling calling my job and our Security is looking into having the calls blocked.  Please do not fall for this scam like I did.

I just recived a call from officer John Peterson saying I owe money for an on line payday loan he has all my information and said I will be arrested. He also said I have a nice voice and sounded very sexy. He would not answer any of my questions and was very persistent in his efforts to make me give him a credit card over the phone. I have contacted my Attorney. I also told him not to call my work or direct number anymore. I have no idea what this is about but he is telling me i am going to jail today and he is sending out the police. He has a very heavy Indian accent and is very persistent  DO NOT GIVE HIM any of your credit card or bank info.

I have been getting calls all day, saying i would get arrested if i did not pay 552 dollars, i was givin the reason that i had got a payday loan, which i had not! he was rude and told me God could only help me know! This is crazy, when i tried to call back after he hung up in me it said it was not a working number? This is bad what do i do? he said he was John Patterson and had a accent i could not understand anything he was saying, he got so rude!!!!!

4-28-2010  I JUST RECEIVED A CALL AT MY JOB FROM THE SAME GUY. HE SAID I APPLIED FOR AN INTERNET CASH ADVANCE ON THE INTERNET AND OWE THEM THE MONEY. I TOLD HIM I NEVER APPLIED FOR ANY TYPE OF LOAN ON THE INTERNET. HE HAD MY BANK NAME, MY SOCIAL SECURITY # MY ADDRESS, AND OF COURSE MY WORK PHONE #. HE KEPT REPEATING MY SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER AND BANK NAME. I NEVER TOLD HIM IF HE WAS CORRECT OR NOT. I DID ASK FOR THE NAME OF HIS COMPANY HE SAID, "FINANCIAL GRANT" SEATLE WASHINGTON, AND GAVE ME A PHONE # OF 206-965-8360, AND AN ADDRESS OF 4601 SOUTH GRAHAM. I DID A REVERSE LOOK UP OF THE # AND IT IS AN APARTMENT COMPLEX, SO I GOT THE PHONE # AND CALLED THE MANAGER OF THE APARTMENTS AND TOLD HER, SOMEONE IS USING HER ADDRESS, AND COMMITTING FRAUD. I EXPLAINED THAT IF THE POLICE SHOW UP AT HER APARTMENTS, SHE NEEDS TO GIVE THEM THE ABOVE INFORMATION. SHE WAS REAL NICE. AS FOR THE CALL, I TOLD HIM, "IF YOU CAN'T FAX ME PROOF THAT YOU DEPOSITED MONEY IN MY BANK ACCOUNT, FOR A PAYDAY LOAN, I'M HANGING UP, CALLING MY ATTORNEY, THEN THE POLICE, AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST THE BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU, AND DON'T YOU EVER CALL MY PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT WITH YOUR SCAM CRAP! YOU'LL BE MESSING WITH THE WRONG VICTIM,  I KNOW HOW TO TRACE YOUR A**." AND THEN I HUNG UP!! BOY THESE PEOPLE WOULN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO IF THEY HAD TO ACTUALLY WORK  FOR THEIR MONEY LIKE WE DO!! BOY THEY PISS ME OFF.

PROTECT YOURSELF!  IMPORTANT INFORMATION YOU MUST READ ? HOW THE SCAM WORKS AND WHAT AGENCIES TO REPORT THEM TO

LONG RUNNING AND KNOWN SCAM ? ALL OVER INTERNET AND NEWS FOR ALMOST 2 YEARS NOW

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.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2010/01/ks_debt_collection.html   latest release of information on this scam

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
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-771-9249   Scammer posting here as GARY and GARRY JONES
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-866-860-4509   Scammer posting here as Mike Henderson
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-212-500-0839   Scammer posting here as Ricky
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-201-244-7722   Scammer posting as Carole, David Brown and Amanda
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-626-200-4646   Scammer placing false postings at this new number as silshan kanniue and Tina ? preparing a new number to use.
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-424-354-4270   Scammer placing false postings as Rose
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-785-4479   Scammer posting as Robert
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-909-327-4870   Scammer placing false postings as Marry
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-646-274-1143   Scammer placing false postings as Karen Miller


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.

I've gotten the 15th, yes 15!!  rude and harrassing call today...and all these calls are just since Friday.  Well,  next time this number comes up on my caller ID.  I'm going to pick up the phone and blast an air horn into his ear.   I picked it up at Walmart for $4.00.  I bet they will not call again.  I'm personally hoping he'll be permanently deaf.  It's exactly what these scam artists deserve.  I called the FL Attorney General but since these numbers are phone banks and doubtful these scammers are even in this country there is not much they can do.

I recieved the same call today from officer eric scott.  Very heavy accent, most of what he said I couldnt understand.  He claimed in a message my attorney or I needed to call 2069658360 when I tried to call there was no answer.

I keep getting calls from Officer Eric Scott with a heavy Indian accent....yeah right with the name Eric Scott.   Anyway,  it started 2 months ago....they claim my mother took out an internet cash advance. And even keep changing the dates she supposedly got the cash advance. It varies from March of 2009 thru June 2009.  She did fill out an online application but did not complete it and then 8/9 months later these so called "officers" claim that they are going to "download a lawsuit against her" in an Orlando court.  Charging her with defrauding a financial institution.  He has said that the police will be arriving at her front door within 15 minutes to arrest her. And he would make her very sorry.

The simple fact is, "if" my mother got a payday advance they would have been able to take their payment back since it was an electronic fund transfer thru the banking system. That's how it works.  My mother called her bank and they went back through 3 years of statement history and Wachovia assures her that the only direct deposits ever received into her bank account have been her payroll checks.

After weeks of calls,  I called this company to tell them they are fraudulent and scam artists who pray on peoples fear and  the fact that they threaten her in this manner is illegal and now they call me because my mother had to change her cell phone number because of the excessive calls and now I guess they call me to try to intimidate her into paying.  Good luck with that,  Of course I'm pretty sure I pissed him off when I told him to go back to Fu@king his camel.

Me too. I'm pretty sure it's a scam but this guy is really persistent. No idea what it's about. Weird.

I am receiving threatening phone calls from this phone number from a man that identifies himself as Officer Eric Scott.  He insists on having my attorney call him.  Reason not provided.  I honestly do not know who he is affiliated with.