they are yelling at me I cant understand them

IT WAS US ASSOCIATES Atorny and About to Complete my Pay Day LOAN

This is what I sent to the FBI Tip Line:

"For over three weeks, I have been harassed on the phone at work and at home by a man named who identifies himself as Craig Washington. He is demanding I pay him money (has never identified an amount)for an payday loan that I allegedly never paid back. I think it Was Cash USA or Cash Net USA.For the first two weeks, it was 5-7 calls daily. Now it's down to 3-4 weekly. My employer is not appreciating these calls.

He has identified himself as a representative of a law firm on several occasions and most recently as a detective from Crime Bureau Identification---and he says that I am a "primary suspect" and has "filed against my name and SSN"--but didn't say what he was filing against. I hung up on "Craig" today and he called back and left a message on on my voicemail at work and my cell that I deem as threatening. And oddly, at the end of the message he said, "If you don't call me back, God bless you, Jackie. And good luck. God bless you."

The reason for my "tip" to you is that he has a lot of information about me. He knows my full name, SSN and where I work. I am frightened at this point.

I have never engaged this man in conversation---I always hang up after he tries to ask me to verify my SSN and tells me how urgent this legal matter is. Then he had Jeff Anderson call me.

I hope that you may identify this company and determine its legitimacy. In the mean time, if you have any suggestions as to how to get him to stop calling, I would appreciate it.

The number Craig Washington left for me to call him back is 707.474.3438 x212.

I saved the voicemail if it might help you.

Many, many thanks."

I never heard from the FBI, but two weeks ago, I got my final call from Craig Washington. He said I was going to be very sorry. Si far, I am just happy to have the harassment stop.

The persons who use phone number 248-289-3854 ARE NOT from the FBI or any other law enforcement agency.

They are scam artists but they are not as clever as you think.

Here is the information on these scam artists.

The phone number originates in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

The provider of this phone number is Comcast.

The legal department's phone numbers for Comcast: 713-462-1908 or 866-947-5587

This is a land-line but the switching tower for this phone number is WSLDMIRJDS0 and contains all the logs that trace this phone number back to its original source.

This phone number can be traced from the following IP Addresses:  170.69.248.21, 66.249.65.251, 66.249.65.48, 66.249.65.23, 68.171.231.17, and 66.249.65.5 - This means they are using skype, a computer based program to make phone calls over the internet, and they require a comcast telephone box to mask from where the phone calls are coming.

Call Law Officer Ryan Gagnon to report these people as impersonating a law enforcement agent and you may contact him at this phone number:  248-370-9444.

Also call the FBI of Troy, Michigan and file a complaint

I hope these b*****ds get arrested.

You are f****ng moron if you think for one moment that we believe your B***s***.....I just contacted the FBI about your commend and they are looking into you to see if you are scamming people....so, f*** you, you goddamn moth******ing w***e.

A person is calling me from 248-289-3854 and 757-507-4704 saying he is Jack Anderson with the FBI and that they have a case against my name and last 4 of my SSN.  I then did a search on this number and discovered it was a scam.   So I called back and asked Mr. Anderson for his Agent ID which he said was 4139 and then I asked for his EIN and address.  He told me that he couldn't give it to me.  When I asked why not and that I knew this was a scam, he became irate and used vulgar language.  BTW, he has a strong accent and I barely could understand what he was saying,  So that mad him even madder.  I requested that he not contact me at all but he called me back 5 times within 10 min.  I told him the conversations were now being recorded and the calls stopped.  I am sure he just will find another number to call.

Got a call from the 248 # today. This is the first time I ever tried to follow up and get more info about one of these calls but this one was so hard to understand! Again, Jeff Anderson, same story as everyones. I will report this to protect myself.

The caller left a message on my cell saying he was with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and that my name and number had come up .and i was paid  760 $ at friday and they were sent me the resolment document.

constant calls to my cell phone and work place. very annoying, and harrassing

I got ANOTHER call from this number, rejected it, then got a text telling me to call!!!  They will NOT stop!!  This is truly harassment!  I'm very sure they're bogus, and after reading some of the comments here (except for the one from Jesun Adverds, who probably works for them, he also categorizes this call as a "political call"), I KNOW they're bogus!  But, I do love that the guy who has left messages for me, speaking with an accent almost too heavy to understand, calls himself Shawn Peterson!  What a hoot!!!

The Number is really from USASSOCIATES Investigation of Crime and prevention Department.
police has knocked at my doorstep and i have paid $425. Don't try to avoid them they have strong government Relations.

I've gotten a few calls from this number.  A man with an EXTREMELY heavy accent who calls himself "Shawn Peterson" says that my husband has committed fraudulent activities, and that I need to contact them immediately to work things out.  His accent is so heavy I can barely understand what he's saying.  I can't make out what company he says he's calling from!!  It's a local area code, so I wonder exactly where he's calling from.  What a bunch of scammers!!!!

make sure you do to the F.T.C.

I recieved several threatening calls from them. I called the F.B.I. and told them that a supposed F.B.I. Agent was calling me to collect a debt. They used the names Anthony Williams and Jeff Anderson. I reported them to the F.T.C. and alerted the my local Attorney General. This supposed F.B.I. Agent, Anthony Williams wanted me to pay an alleged pay day loan that I had signed for electronically through my email. They had my bank account number, ip address, home address, SS#, D.O.B., and my famlies numbers and personal information as well. I asked them for their business license but they would not provide one. They would not allow me to send a money order to pay, they wanted $321.00 right now from my debit card or they were going to take me to court and I would have to pay over $1,000.00. I took all the steps to protect my idenity. Then me and a bunch of my friends called them and harrassed them. We told them they needed to pay us for a debt they inquired through "Credit One U.S.A.", as they had said to me previously, and harrassed them to the point they changed their cell phone number. What kind of an F.B.I. Agent calls with a Hindi accent, that hardly speaks proper english, and uses a cell phone and scare tatics? We asked if they were terrorists or if they just assumed we were stupid Americans that would give our credit  card information over the phone to settle a debt. Beware of morons that acquired your SS# and other personal information. The good news is, when you put out a fraud alert on your credit report,  you get a free credit report.

PROTECT YOURSELF!  IMPORTANT INFORMATION YOU MUST READ ? HOW THE SCAM WORKS AND WHAT AGENCIES TO REPORT THEM TO

LONG RUNNING AND KNOWN SCAM ? ALL OVER INTERNET AND NEWS FOR  2 YEARS NOW


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  

http://consumeraffairs.com/news04/2010/07/video_bill_collector_scam.html  NEWEST CONSUMER ALERT ABOUT THIS SCAM WITH VIDEO!  

http://www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam.cfm
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/1-888-771-9249   Scammer posting here as GARY and GARRY JONES
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-866-860-4509   Scammer posting here as Mike Henderson
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-212-500-0839   Scammer posting here as Ricky
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-201-244-7722   Scammer posting as Carole, David Brown and Amanda
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-626-200-4646   Scammer false postings at this new number as silshan kanniue and Tina ? preparing a new number to use.
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-424-354-4270   Scammer false postings as Rose
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-785-4479   Scammer posting as Robert
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-909-327-4870   Scammer false postings as Marry
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-646-274-1143   Scammer false postings as Karen Miller, Chichi and Tom Little
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-561-300-8018   Scammer false postings as Marco Polo (real original)
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-877-226-7488   Scammer false postings as SAM, David S
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-706-7463   Scammer false postings as George
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-209-349-7382   Scammer false postings as Towanda Robinson, Shannon Walsh, Jack Dawson and Cynthia
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-760-514-0132   scammer false postings as Suzy01, Johanna Hall, Cindie McMellon, Michael Dublin, Mark Williams, Carol and Rio   (800notes removed some of the scammers posts because the all came from the SAME IP ADDRESS)
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-209-797-2212   scammer false posting as Jaison Connar
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-707-401-4056   Scammer false posting as John Carner, KSR
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-650-241-4604   Scammer false postings as jhon and Kevin
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-708-401-0535   Scammer false posting here as JHON
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-518-212-0219  Scammer false posting as Prince Christian, Arpit
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-718-705-8669  Scammer false postings as Alicia
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-707-633-2789  Scammer false postings as Rojer, Minni, Rhone, Smith, Lisa Jack, Julie, Sean, and Carol. ? preparing a new number to use to steal money
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-205-294-6271  Scammer false posting as Thomas Jhonson
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-661-263-4011  Scammer false posting ?ILLEGALLY claiming to be an attorney Charles F Robinson
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-321-684-4117  Scammer false posing as Harry Patt
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-518-565-0306  Scammer false posting as Wellvishers
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-678-791-4673  Scammer false posting as Sherrie Ann and Elvine Buris
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-305-390-0607  Scammer false posting as James and Mark

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.

I got a call from this man with a very strong accent saying he was with the FBI and that I owed money for fraud of some sort. So I called the FBI and they stated this was a scam and then I had to call the social security office because this man had the last 4 digits of my social and then I called all 3 credit beaures is case he is trying to commet fraud.

I got a message from the same number, saying his name was Jack Anderson in a middle eastern accent. I called him back just to let him know how fishy it all was, and that the person they asked for didn't even live at my residence. I want to report them somehow.

The caller left a message on my cell saying he was with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and that my name and number had come up as a refference. He was speaking with a foreign accent.