214-884-6006
TX, US
 | I.M. 2013-11-04 15:59:19 Unknown |
I recieved an E-Mail similar to this one except her name was Christine Robinson and the E-mail seemed very professional however i was reluctant because of the grammer was slang ( "till" "cuz" ). It was coming from her "Lawyer" Michael J. Szymborski from greenwood solicitors, but the e mail was written from "christine's" point of view... and then it switched back to "Michael's" saying its too bad shes been diagnosd with cancer and what a nice and honest person she is. Dont fall for this stuff you guys, there scammers and they just want to ruin your life its not even worth it. I decoded to have a little fun and make them piss their pants and claimed that my lawyer was going to be in contact with their office to handle the transitions because they would not stop insisting on obtaining my personal info. needless to say the e mails stopped!
| Hansen Sobh 2013-07-24 14:42:45 Unknown |
Yes i received that emial last week as well. However, i always google for scam, and i'm relieved to know that u received it as well, which confirms that its a scam. Yeah disregard that email and don't give any personal info cuz they might steal your identity for their own benefit or even terror plots! Cheers
| josiah rafter 2013-06-10 22:25:59 Unknown |
I recieved this today.
I am PA to Mrs.Belinda Lewis,i am sending you this email in regards to her last wish because she has been diagnosed with cancer for a very long period. She has been touched to Will the sum $12,000,000.00 from what she has inherited from her late husband to you for charitable & humanitarian causes. For more info do establish communication with her attorney, Frank David on email address: barrfrankdavid@rogers.com
I am PA to Mrs.Belinda Lewis,i am sending you this email in regards to her last wish because she has been diagnosed with cancer for a very long period. She has been touched to Will the sum $12,000,000.00 from what she has inherited from her late husband to you for charitable & humanitarian causes. For more info do establish communication with her attorney, Frank David on email address: barrfrankdavid@rogers.com
| GiG 2012-06-26 12:37:25 Unknown |
Shill alert !!
| lectrica 2012-06-26 12:21:26 Debt Collector |
O my everything yall said was tuth said my kids is going to foster care i will get pick. up yall made my day what do i do i now.and they want to send there a letter talking like tmhey will port me to dalles jail and after this my home was broken in to
| princess 2012-06-22 03:05:43 Unknown |
i to have recieved calls from 646-499-6552 he first called my job said his name was jason cooper he worked for the dept of justice and had a warrant for my arrest he said i owed 698 dollars on a payday loan never heard of the on he he mentioned i call the atorney general office in my state to report the scam he even sent a fake copy of a arrest warrant to my email said he would give me one more chance to pay you could tell the warrent was fake wasnt even signed by a judge was signed by him jason cooper i told him for one you are a scammer i have reported you to the law good by i also call ky3 and told them so people can be warned they are just wanting info on bank accounts so they take your money
| Jesse 2012-06-18 16:57:17 Unknown |
I too have received these calls from more than one number (214-884-6006 & 646-499-6552). I have had them call me on my cell phone and tell me they were with the state attorney's office, the criminal investigation department. They have very thick Indian accents but had names like David Jones and Brian Cooper. They had alot of my information but some of it was incorrect. They demanded money and told me they would arrest me and that my social securitynumber would be blocked and that I would never work again. They even called my job and asked to speak with my supervisor. I have told them time and again that I am filing a harrassment suit if they don't stop calling me but they will give it a few days and start again. When I ask them questions they get defensive and one guy said to me, "Are you investigating me?"
To say the least it is very frustrating and in the beginning scary because of the intimidation, however I knew what they were saying was untrue. Luckily for me I work with a great bunch of people that told them to **** off.
To say the least it is very frustrating and in the beginning scary because of the intimidation, however I knew what they were saying was untrue. Luckily for me I work with a great bunch of people that told them to **** off.
| Alfalfa 2012-06-14 15:09:00 Unknown |
This extortion scam was featured on "ABC World News" and "Nightline" last night:
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
| Vanessa 2012-06-14 15:08:04 Unknown |
I keep getting calls from these people saying I owe them money and I have borrowed a thing from them. Somebody stop these people please.
| brandon 2012-06-08 18:49:54 Debt Collector |
requesting western Union payment ...scam ..scam scam scam scam scam scam scam scam ...they are apart of government ....and did not come through official lines ...scam scam scam scam ...do not give these scam scum any info ...
| laura 2012-06-08 18:46:19 Unknown |
this is an scam ... unlawfull and have reported them to the police for harassment
| dan d 2012-06-07 19:56:54 Unknown |
This guy called me 8 times..everytime being the supposed last chance and I'm being investigated..I'm tired of it
| Can T 2012-06-07 18:14:31 Unknown |
Did this company know all your information? I have been dealing with them for weeks now and I finally changed my number. I seriously was SO close to giving in and giving them money. Its sickening that these people get away with this. They knew my whole SSN and everything else about me. I am still sick to my stomach about it :(
| Can T 2012-06-07 17:53:25 Unknown |
This company has called me numerous times. They also call using other numbers. They told me i was being sued for fraud and something about a payday loan. I had to change my phone number because they were calling so much. They Also knew all my information..SSN, home address and where i worked. Very scary and sickening!
| Sara F 2012-06-05 20:36:15 Unknown |
This company keeps calling and stating that I am under legal investigation. What a crock!!
| stephy 2012-04-24 18:08:26 Unknown |
They keep calling and making threats
| Belinda lewis 2012-04-24 14:35:19 Unknown |
they keep calling my home and job telling me to get a lawyerand they are calling from new york and they are not!!!!!
| kaki 2012-04-23 21:26:09 Unknown |
got a recorded call from this number saying i need to call them or my lawyer emediatley
or good luck with future actions
or good luck with future actions
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