214-872-8570
TX, US
 | Rebecca Finn 2014-03-28 22:28:38 Unknown |
Someone just called me from this number and said that he had my paperwork for a Pay Day loan. He wanted to find out if all my info was concerning my banking and ss number. I told him I did not apply and he hung up. He was very hard to understand.
| Shawnda 2014-02-06 19:28:42 Unknown |
Got a phone call from this number which happens to be a Texas landline number, this is the info I got when I traced the number online. They left a message on my phone stating a $5000 payday loan I requested was approved and that he needed me to callback to him at home and he left this number. I have absolutely no idea who this person is and I sure as heck didn't apply for a payday loan. I have no idea how they got my cell# either. I won't be answering this individuals calls or any other calls from strange numbers and I will be reporting this fraudulent mess a.s.a.p
214-872-8570:
Owner Name: Click Here
Phone Type: Landline
Location: FRISCO, TX
County: Collin
Carrier: YMax Communications Corporation - TX
214-872-8570:
Owner Name: Click Here
Phone Type: Landline
Location: FRISCO, TX
County: Collin
Carrier: YMax Communications Corporation - TX
| Aggravated 2014-01-31 22:58:46 Unknown |
This number repeatedly calls me AND my supervisor at work even after warned my atty has advised him not to. He calls himself frank Anderson and refuses to identify the name of the company her represents! He called my supervisor EIGHT times yesterday between 3:48pm and 4:30pm!! Harassment!
| Tony 2014-01-09 14:35:46 Unknown |
Have had three calls in three days from same #214-872-8570, googled it, came back from Frisco, TX., also read that they are claiming to be with the Government, a possible scam. the call today I anwsered and talked to some dumass who can't even speek english. I repeetedly ask this idiot "WHY ARE YOU CALLING ME, AND WHAT DO YOU WANT!!!" they could not tell me and got pissed off and hung up on me. People DO NOT put up with this b***s***, there is no law that I am aware of that states that you have to be nice to some dumass trying to bully you out of information and or money!!
| anonymous 2014-01-08 23:58:21 Unknown |
Number calls me and leaves voicemails saying there is a case against my name and ss#, and if I dont call back right away I'll be locked up behind bars.
| melissa 2012-11-09 19:16:38 Debt Collector |
IVE HAD THIS # CALLING ME AT WORK AND ON MY CELL. TELLING ME THAT IF I DID NOT PAY THEM I WOULD BE GOING TO JAIL AND COURT. THEY ALSO SAID THEY WOULD GARNISH MY WAGES IF I DID NOT.. THE SAME PERSON IS CALLING BUT CHANGING THERE NAMES.. 1} BRIAN LAWSON 2} BRIANGILBERT AND 3} MIKE JOHNSON!!!! I HAD SEVERAL PEOPLE CALL THEY WERE EATHER HUNG UP ON OR THE OTHER ONE LEFT A MESSAGE AND THEY DID NOT CALL HER BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS A SCAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
| K Mills 2012-08-14 21:04:50 Unknown |
I also got this call. Said they;d keep calling me unless I paid the $200.
I reported them to the Federal Trade Commission and my phone company. You should do the same.
1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357);
I reported them to the Federal Trade Commission and my phone company. You should do the same.
1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357);
| Alfalfa 2012-08-08 20:22:16 Unknown |
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/
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
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
| flagal 2012-08-08 20:19:26 Unknown |
I also got a call from Indian sounding man "Officer Brown" claiming charges again my SSN. I hung up and he called right back and left a voice mail about going to my work too. Who do we report these calls to??
| Sandra Schnurr 2012-07-06 16:21:39 Unknown |
They are calling and calling and will not indentify themselves Only to say they are from the federal government!!
| Sandra Schnurr 2012-07-06 16:19:51 Unknown |
This is a fraud!!! Don't not answer!!! They said they were from the federal government!! They are a scam!!!
| Amber 2012-05-25 21:39:23 Unknown |
I got a call from this number saying that there was 3 charges brought against my social security number. 1)violation of bank regulations 2)check fraud 3) theft by deception. They threatened to call my boss and have me arrest Monday morning. I know this is a scam due to the fact I have only took 1 loan out and paid it off. I believe this is the same number that called 5 days prior to my last payment on my loaan saying there was a bank error and they could not draft it out my account. I knew then it was fraud because what company would stay on hold for 30 min for me to get home and get my debit card. Man was very rude....first I was on the phone then they transfered me to a suppervisor named Robert Bavis badge #1763BB. So watch out I know this is fraud!!!!!
| Sue 2012-05-21 19:48:28 Unknown |
got a call from this number saying they are a federal agent and have a case against me. Said i have a payday loan and warrent against me.
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