213-289-3784
CA, US
Vannessa Diaz
Vannessa Diaz
2012-07-27 22:20:49
Unknown
they away call me. Say have law suit.
Cris
Cris
2012-07-26 23:24:00
Debt Collector
I have received callings from 8 different numbers claiming that I owe on a payday loan and if I dont pay I will be arrested and lose my job. Just like you all have said, calling my home isnt as bad as when they call your job - thank goodness I have a great office staff who just says contact him at home.  Here are the numbers and names to warn you all:

213-289-3784  Brian Lincoln/James  (claiming to be with the Civil State Attorneys Office)
312-473-2701  Jeff Miller/Peter Jones email: lawdepartment @usa.com
707-666-7433  David Reed/Brian Lincoln
814-245-3834  couldn't understand name but he had a heavy accent
347-478-6816  Peter Jones/Greg Murphy  email: gregmurphyatt@lawyer.com
818-813-8234  Jason (who happens to be in the same office as Brian Lincoln - see above #s)
206-495-9908  couldn't understand name but he had a heavy accent
510-709-3845  Alan Nord  

* Can't these guys get a life and stop ruining innocent people.
Tania
Tania
2012-07-19 23:37:09
Unknown
Received a call from a Rick Papa. Left a voice mail claiming to work as an investigator for a attorney office. That I was in a big legal case and I needed to contact a case worker by the name of Jean Smith or it was being turned over to my local sheriff's department. That's pretty much all I could make of the message the guy also sounded like he was straight from India.
lacey
lacey
2012-07-17 22:09:01
Unknown
Call from an Eric foster claiming he's a crime prevention officer. Haven't spoken to him just a s****y VM saying it's time sensitive and if i or my attorney dont call him all he can do is wish me good luck. this is ridiculous! If i find out more i will post. I am going to have my lawyer call him first thing tomorrow. My lawyer can be quite an a***ole when needed so he's going to be the one that needs luck!!
lorrie
lorrie
2012-07-12 21:42:38
Unknown
I have been harrassed by these same people for over a year.  According to info that I recd from the actual Kroger Legal office in California they have been doing this and scamming people for some time.  Apparently they tapped into cashnet (?) database and stole thousands of peoples info so whether you had a loan with them or not if you even applied for one these scumbags have info.  Apparently the internet d.a. has been investigating them for some time they will also use the name silverstone legal assoc.  HUGE SCAM>
Shelly
Shelly
2012-07-12 16:13:49
Unknown
These crazy people had the nerve to call him job I went off on them this crap need to STOP I will get them in some way
keith
keith
2012-07-03 19:14:26
Unknown
these dam people need to go back to india, and leave me alone. i don't know how they got my number, but they call at all hours of the day and night. threating me with a law suit and they will have me arested if i don't pay them monies. i do not owe any one anything. i am a disabled person. so if they call u don't give out any information, and tell them u r calling the police, and the state attorney generals office. if i could get threw my dam phone line, i would put them back on a boat to india. more than likely they r here illeally..this crap needs to stop...get a life u idiots....this is america not india....i hope every dam one of u idiots get what is coming tou.
Jen
Jen
2012-06-30 21:37:57
Unknown
I got a message from someone with a heavy accent, couldn't tell if it was African or Indian. There were a lot of noise in the background.  The guy was saying something about me or my attorney should return this call right away or good luck to me to whatever unfolds afterward.  I couldn't understand what the situation was because of his accent and the noise in the background.  So, naturally, I called back to find out exactly what this was about, but it went to voice mail.  Something told me to google the number and I read all kind of stories about these idiots.  If they call me back, I'll either laugh or make them cry.  I hope these heartless people go to hell for doing this because a lot of people actually believed them. Sad.
Nessa
Nessa
2012-06-26 22:35:36
Unknown
I too received the same phone call from some Indian person claiming to be officer Ricardo Wilson stating I was in a big legal mess regarding a payday loan with some company named Speedy Cash. He told me that they had deposited money in my account and I never paid the money back. I told them that I would be contacting the FBI because I knew they were trying to scam me he immediately hung up the phone when I tried calling the number back no one would answer the. I googled Speedy Cash and called them to let them know that scammers have tapped into their system and is using their name trying to collect money from people who don't even have payday loans. I hope someone catches these scammers once and for all.
Erica
Erica
2012-06-22 22:58:35
Unknown
They are calling me every 5 seconds on my cell and my job telling my boss that there coming up to my job and make a some drama about not payi ng them 698.00 i know i took a loan out but i wanna know what loan is it from he didn't tell me he refuses. to tell me i am so stress out right now am going threw aloft . i am 32 weeks. pregnant. i don't need to have this baby early right now from this crazy drama please hope......
Mat
Mat
2012-06-22 10:00:22
Unknown
These people called me claiming to be an investigator named James. I doubt that was really this guys name he sounded like he was straight from India. Claimed to be with crime department and threatened me with police and jail and all this BS. Said I owed his client money for a payday loan I never took out and said I would have to bring 11000 dollars with me to they courthouse if I didn't pay him directly today to make it go away. He wouldn't give me any info about the lender or accused loan that I never took. I informed him of how the legal system actually works in this country and contacted the authorities for fraud. Then they wouldn't answer my phone calls from the original number and continued to call me from another number. These people are absolute pieces of s*** and I hope Karma comes back around to bite you all in the a**.
Joseph
Joseph
2012-06-22 07:40:27
Debt Collector
I've received the same phone calls numerous times a day even to the point that the guy listed off my bank account number without me even giving it to him. I dont even go online to bank any purchases let alone apply for a payday loan. My income is is more than enough. I asked for his address and he started to give me my address and when asked how he got any of this information without even acknowledging that it was correct he told me he can't disclose this information. I've had to change my bank account number twice because of these people. Even if you block the number they call you from another one. I'm fed up.
Jake
Jake
2012-06-21 18:01:19
Debt Collector
How do you get the calls to stop? This is ridiculous, my fiance is getting them all day!
Kiki
Kiki
2012-06-15 21:02:16
Debt Collector
I just got a call from this number and I could barely understand the guy so I was laughing, I work in the legal field and I told him that his call was being recorded and was being monitored as we spoke.  He said he couldn't understand me (so ironic with his thick accent he couldn't understand me- a midwestern gal)  The same fake typical story there is a case against me, bla bla bla he told me he wanted to speak with my boss so (as a joke) I had my co worker get on the line and say he was the police chief in the district, suddenly he hung up.  So stupid, debt or no debt I can't beleive people fall for this crap..you can hear 9 million people in the background all speaking jibberish - - in my experience if someone is going to sue you or file a "criminal complaint" they don't call you first, from another country, to tell you about it first.  Good laugh for a Friday afternoon....
Alfalfa
Alfalfa
2012-06-14 13:03:31
Unknown
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
Karin
Karin
2012-06-14 12:50:32
Unknown
I got a call from the same number. The message was in my mailbox at work. I spoke to the secretary who took the message and she said that the man had a very thick accent. The message said, "Please call ASAP. If I don't hear from you, I will call your employer." Kinda freaky considering I owe NOBODY money. Next step...contact the authorities.
Lee
Lee
2012-06-12 20:56:36
Unknown
Someone called from this number (said it was a lawyer's office but I couldn't understand what the guy was saying because he had a heavy accent) and told me there was a lawsuit pending and they were going to have me arrested if I didn't pay the loan of $600, which I never took out from anyone in the first place.
Chuck
Chuck
2012-06-12 17:24:57
Unknown
Do you know who they are?
YEP
YEP
2012-06-12 15:58:08
Unknown
i got the same call
ZO
ZO
2012-06-08 20:38:34
Unknown
Says it is attorney...and that there is a lawsuit pending.
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