jabslayer that was brilliant!!!!

They called me to dam scam artist talking bout I owe them on a loan must be crazy and when I found out officer Thomas Obrien wasn't real they called my home numerous time I don't know what kind language your speaking but I understood very well asked can touch my tits and other body parts I will be reporting their a** that's harassment.

I would like to report a different number from mr.officier thomas obrien from the federal burea keep calling and threating and calling my job telling my boss im goiv to jail, 215-302-3662

Want me to pay a payday loan from 2005.they even have the name of bank associated to this loan.

i was called the same way sould i worry

Got a call from 2 elephant driving curry-munchers claiming they worked directly with the Feds. These proceeded to tell me that they were " LOCAL OFFICERS", and i owed them "Tree-Hundred-Tirty-Tree-D-ALLAH'S and Bipty cents" or i was going to be behind bars because of a unpaid online loan I NEVER TOOK in 2010. The officers name was Frank Harris....probably because he was calling Pittsburgh. I told him i needed to speak with his supervisor Terry Bradshaw immediately. ;) They told me that if I didn't pay now that someone was going to come to my house and serve me papers and that I was going to jail...i'm guessing TURBINATOR is heading over at this point to collect some dough....GOOD LUCK!!! Obvious scam so i decided to play into it and told them i had cash and when the guy shows up with papers i'm going to give it to him directly. YEAH RIGHT!!! I have a sawed off SURPRISE for if and when this Binder shows up at my door. I hope someone nails these Ghinders to the wall as i'm sure they prey on the old and weak.

-E

An "Officer" from the "Investigations Department" called my cell and work over and over again. So I started calling him over and over again. He finally got so mad and quit calling me. They do this every three or four months.

They call me all the time claiming to be an officer from the investigations unit. I just hang up and call them back over and over just like they do me. They get mad and use bad language but leave me alone for 3 or 4 months.

Got a voicemail, followed by another call from the same number, a number registered to a sheriff's department a few counties over. The guy was screaming at me, telling me to pay him $3,000.00+ before the warrant is issued. He says Officer Tim O'Brien was coming to collect me in the next two hours.

First, law enforcement can't demand your money. Ever. Second, someone from the sheriff's office would be called "deputy" not "officer". Third, they don't call you before an arrest warrant is issued, it just is. This scam is insane! I called my local department, and the one they claimed they were from, to file reports. I hope "Officer David Micheal Jones" clears up his english pretty quick, because he is going to need it in an American Court for the felony charge of impersonating an officer, and using Police information (phone numbers) without consent. The two departments are launching a full investigation as to how they had some their personal information, and whoever else they may be using it against to steal money from.

It's insane that these people use scare tactics. Even scarier that they can use a phone number traceable to a (semi) local police department. DO NOT FALL FOR THIS. IT IS EXTREMELY ILLEGAL. IF YOU GET A CALL, YOU NEED TO MAKE A REPORT WITH YOUR LOCAL DEPARTMENT!

These people keep calling me saying they are from the FBI when I asked questions they wanted to transfer me. I immediately called my phone carrier and had this number blocked. They said that there was a case againist my social security number and they have tried to call many times. This is a scam but it did scare me until I looked up the number.

Same thing just happened to me. He called my cell phone and then also called my old place of employment! It came up as the Marion County Sheriff's Office. How do they get away with this?

I got this call from claiming Florissant Police Dept (Mo) - same thing.  Wierd thing was that it really was the Police Dept # on the caller ID.  I did not call the # back but scared the crap out me thinking my kids were in an accident or something.

Keep receiving Phone calls from (215) 302-3651 ext. 799 stating he is Officer Mike Black also from
(210) 892-2679 stating he is Marshal John Marshal.   Both have repeatedly called Cell Phone and alot at Work causing, alot of problems at work.  I beleive they are a scam also and how often do you hear an officer swearing at you for no reason and avaisive in subject. If anyone knows how we can get back at these to stop it or even maybe the fact of impersonating an officer or a federal and if that would help, Please let us all know?  Till then just doing best to not really pay attention to these people until I see legitament documents.

I got a call for my boyfriend from the same number and was told he needed to call Thomas O'Brian at 215-302-3651. That number doesn't come up on a reverse search. His accent was so thick I could hardly understand him. He said he was from Sampson Country Sheriff's department which is no where near us. Said they had a complaint about my boyfriend.

No!

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

i got an email from this number ... he said his name is John Michael ... and i own $5600 and i will be taken to jail if i'm not paid them now ... please is this people is real ??????

We got the same call here at work...He threatened  me... i laughed it off and also called him back and made fun of him...i caught it all on tape ..it is so funnny...

I received a call from this number he was claiming to be from Hennipen County Sheriffs Office with a heavy accent and couldn't pronounce Minneapolis correctly.  Told me the exact same thing as the above two people.    Complete jerk calls now wanting to speak to my manager.

I RECEIVED A CALL FROM THIS NUMBER HE WAS CLAIMING TO BE FROM LA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE HE SAID IF I DIDN'T CALL THEM BACK HE WOULD HAVE HIS SPECIAL INVESTIGATION TEAM COME OUT AND HAVE ME ARRESTED FOR A COMPLAINT THAT WAS MADE AGAINST ME WITH OFFICER THOMAS O'BRIAN . I CALLED THE NUMBER BACK THEY SAID THE PERSON AT THAT EXTENSION WAS NOT AVAILABLE.

I got a call from this number tonight he said his name was officer David Jones. He tnreanten me to send the local police to arrest me if I didn't pay him 300 dollars to resolve the matter I refused to pay. Then he told my children when they answered the house phone that I would go to jail for two years. He had all my personal and private information even where I worked don't know how. This needs to be reported to make him stop.

I had a message on my voicemail for my boyfriend, stating that he needed to call officer Jon Kelly at 215-302-3651 or they were going to come to our house with a notarized arrest warrant.  Very heavy accent (fake almost).  He also stated that my boyfriend could go turn himself in at our local jail which he pronounced incorrect twice.  What a joke!

I received a message from this phone # claiming he was from LA County Sheriffs office (very heavy accent and couldn't really understand him) and said there was a complaint made against me with an Officer Thomas O'Brien.  Said if I didn't call them back he would have his special investigation team come out and have me arrested.  I called the number and an operator said that ext 123412341234 was unavailable.

Got a call from this same number at my work. Said his name was officer bryan. Could have been o'bryan. Switch board at my job took call.is this guy legit?

Just got a call a few minutes ago from a man with a foreign accent claiming he was from our local Sheriffs department, I asked for his name and to also spell along with his contact number which he did, the funny thing is that when I looked at my caller ID the number was reflecting that number that he gave.  He said that I needed to contact Officer Thomas O'Brien of the State Bureau Pennsylvania, I asked him what it was pertaining to and he said some Financial issues and that I need to call in 30 minutes or they will be sending the police to my residence, he also said I will be going to jail for 2 years.  Each time I asked him questions he seemed to get more and more uptight.  So he just repeated on how I need to contact the office in 30 minutes and said "BYE".

I later called the number he gave me to our local Sheriff's office, the number that he gave me, indeed that was our Sheriff's number however, there was no one by that name of Ryan Powell.  The gentleman that I spoke to said he's worked there for 20 years and there is no one by that name.

I just got a call from the Charles County Sherriff Office. A federal agent told me to call Thomas Obrien at 215-302-3651. And why is a federal agent be calling from a local county police.

I got the same call they said the local sheriff was coming 2 get me and I'm going 2 jail for two years.

Got a call from this number saying he was an officer and a case has been filed against me.