213-992-0686
CA, US
Mhermcleve
Mhermcleve
2011-06-06 20:43:11
Unknown
Gat a message from a man calling himself Samuel Jackson saying that his company is suing me for for check fraud.
Lynn
Lynn
2011-06-06 20:43:11
Unknown
I recevied a threating message from Shawn Michaels stating that I was to call him at 213-992-0686 or I would be sorry.  If you call this number the guy answeres the phone Shawn Taylor and he claims to be an attorney.  This guy wants $800 dollars to cover a check, don't ever recall writing a check for that amount let alone it bouncing. To settle this out of court he wanted a letter with all my personnal information on it including my credit card or debit card information to settle this out of court. The fax number he provided was a 714 area code (could not uderstand the whole number as english was not his first lanuage) This is really fishy, I told this guy to go to h___!!
BRENDA
BRENDA
2011-06-06 20:43:11
Unknown
I JUST RECEIVED A CALL FROM SHAWN MICHAELS STATING THAT I OWED MONEY FROM A INTERNATIONAL LOAN COMPANY THAT I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF AND HE WANTED MY ATTORNEY TO CALL HIM AT THIS NUMBER OR I WOULD BE SORRY. HE THEN HUNG UP ON ME WHEN I TOLD HIM I WANTED HIM TO STAY ON THE LINE LONG ENOUGH SO HE COULD BE TRACED.
Fa
Fa
2011-06-06 20:43:11
Unknown
I just received a call from a Shawn taylor Telling me that if I did not call him back I would be sorry then he asked me to pay $945.00 to settle out of court from a first cash international . I asked him for something in writing he said it was illegal and that he can only send it to my attorney and not me and that he need a letter with all of my information inclding credit card number and expiration and billing address and even the security code so he coul dprocess the payments and file it with the courts of california . Me like a dummy I almost paid it I am a victim of Identity theft from a family member already . This guy is creepy and the fact that he wouldnt provide any paperwork to back up his allegations against me was a bit suspicious .
LizMax
LizMax
2011-06-06 20:43:11
Unknown
I've posted before but I just want to post again.  If you have recieved calls like this, like I had the other today make sure you report it to the FTC.  I called and the lady was really nice and told me not to panic.  She said its a ongoing scam that these people are doing to people.  I almost paid as well.. Oddly the same amount as the person above was requested.  $945, they wanted it in two payments with a notarized letter, my credit card number and a state ID.. The letter had to state that I agree that I owe this money.   When has a bill collector ever asked for a notorized letter??  I can't believe I was worried for a minute.  I was told that they might get you personal information from a credit report so be sure to do a fraud alert, you can do it easy online.   I ended up changing my number as they kept calling and calling, about 15 times.  I hope they don't call work again, its my line but I have informed most people at my job what happened.   They advised if they call to state that personal calls arent allowed and you need to contact her at home.  the number they have is now disconnceted!  yay...  These people suck!
STOP THEM COLD!
STOP THEM COLD!
2010-02-09 15:10:38
Unknown
GUYS.. USE THIS LETTER ANYTIME YOU GET A CALL AND THEY WILL NEVER CALL YOU AGAIN!

http://debtsupportllc.com/stop-collection-calls-amp-letters-immediately.html
Damian
Damian
2010-02-09 15:05:04
Unknown
I got a call like that as well this morning. The Indian speaking guy went on to tell me there were charges being filed in court for fraud, bad ETF payment, and something else. he told me that they could send the court documents to my attorney. I told him that i don't have one and i represent myself, therefore, send them to me. He said he couldn't send them to me. I then told him that i wil ask him again(I asked 4 times) because if I inform him I have no attorney and I represent myself, he is legally required to send them to me. He said that he couldn't. So, i told him that if he(they) refuse to provide me with legal documents, they can expect their case to be thrown out because they did not provide me with appropriate legal docs. After that, he tried to tell me something else but HE then hung up.
abby dalton
abby dalton
2010-02-06 14:35:05
Unknown
same as previously reported february 5, 2010.
abbydalton
abbydalton
2010-02-06 14:33:02
Unknown
PLEASE JUST LIST NAME AS Abby Dalton and delete barbara carter.
lamet
lamet
2010-02-05 17:58:48
Unknown
SCAM  - LONG RUNNING AND KNOWN SCAM - ALL OVER INTERNET AND NEWS


YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BE ARRESTED AND THEY ARE NOT SUING YOU IN FED COURT.

ALL FALSE AND HIGHLY ILLEGAL SCARE TACTICS -they want you to panic and just pay them without any proof they are legitimate at all.  
If you have taken out a payday loan - call the LENDER DIRECTLY and ask them  not these scammers..

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


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.
barbara carter (ABBY DALTON)
barbara carter (ABBY DALTON)
2010-02-05 17:29:22
Debt Collector
received a call yesterday from an indian speaking gentleman advising me to call shawn michaels ASAP that the matter was very time sensitive.  Called back, but got no answer.  this a.m. about 09:30 a.m. Shawn michaels called me advising me that a case had been filed against me for not paying timely US Fash Cash pdl) and a First payday International pdl company of which was very unfamiliar to me in the Federal Court in California and I needed to hire an attorney and come appear in a Caliornia Court.

i finally asked what would it take to settle the case and he said he would talk with his constitutients, which was $823.  I told him i didn't have 8 cents.  Just recently i had received a payment arrangement from US Fash Cash for $434.  I am to call him back at 12"30 noon with a pay schedule.  Scam or not?  PLESE HELP asap.
jcm
jcm
2010-02-02 21:27:22
Debt Collector
submit immediately your last payment
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