I received a text message from this number.  It read:  "Dear Walmart shopper, Congrats you have just won a $1000 Walmart Gift Card.  Enter Shipping info here:  www.BuyWmart.com (STOP to decline)"
I've never given my cell number to Walmart.  Big red flag.  I did not click on the link.  I did not reply to the message.  I deleted it.  A few minutes later, my teenage daughter received the same text message.

Received call which appeared as "941-961-8518 Cell Phone Call" on my called ID
Did Not answer as I did not recognize the number. A man who spoke VERY BAD ENGLISH left a message, that I could not understand, that "the call is time sensitive and to return his call immediatly at 310-362-4319"  RED FLAG - No 800# No Business Name and "Respresentative" Spoken Very Bad English. 941-961-8518 is a Sarasota FL Cell Phone Number and the 310-362-4319 is a California Phone Number. Do Not Answer your phone if your caller ID shows these numbers. This is some sort of a scam.

called 15 times one right after the other then left me a message.  I could barely understand his strong accent.  He said it was urgent that I return his call.  He gave the number of 310-362-4319 but on my caller ID it was 419-618-518 which is not a true number.  In his message is stated that he wished the best for my kids which was a little scary.  It is a HUGE scam

This is a total scam. I was supposed to get picked up for court yesterday they said, but I am still here. LOL. Nobody picks you up for court, unless it is Dog the Bounty Hunter.  I was told that I had owed a payday loan, they had all of my info. my bank account number and everything. I am pretty sure what they do is hack into or work with payday loan sites and if you apply to one of them they have your info and try to do this scam on you. They scare you.  At first they almost had me, but some of the stuff will tip you off that it is a scam.  First no one can pick you up and drag you to court, kidnapping. Second he was a man with a heavy accent claiming his name was David Walker..LOL. Also they claimed to be the Crime Moitoring Division Law Firm.  There number is unpublished and if you look them up, they don't exist. They won't give you the direct phone number to the supposed creditor.  They also wanted me to write an apology letter to the company for running with there money.  They also said the payday loan co. tried to contact me 16 times by email over the last 2 years. If they had my phone number to my work and my cell and they really wanted their "Money" they would have contacted me more than 16 times to get it.  These people are complete morons, the only thing they have that would get people is the fact that they are so rude they completely scare the crap out of people. Do not give them any money what so ever!!

I recieved a call from a David Walker as well.  You cannot understand anything he says except for the phone #.  Called the phone # and all it did was continue to have a busy signal.  Lucky I dialed the wrong phone # and talked to a very nice operator from 4311 #.  I had her listen to the message and she is the one that caught the # as 4319.  She told me that collection agencies do not leave long messages with personal information of yours on a phone message.  I have been invloved in some loan companies and they would have my personal information.  I don't how they got all my information but everyone be careful!    Dont call them back!!!!

These people are definetly breaking my privacy by calling me at work and jeopardizing my job--I do not know these people and or what they are talking about.  They call from several different cell phone numbers which states that it is a Verizon number that has been disconnected or is no longer in service or has been changed. They consistently call my cell my cell phone back to back and i do not know how they got my info. These peoples English is very bad-and hard to understand--it is easily recognized as a big scam because of all the different numbers they are calling from and they are all from the Saratoga, Fl area--the different numbers consist of (941)961-8518, (310)362-4319, and (310)485-8954--please be cautous and do not answer calls from these numbers. I am definetly going to report this to the Saratoga, Fl police department.  Another thing is that they request that you send them a apology letter for not paying back the debt that you supposedly owe--and authorization to withdraw monies from your account.  they insist they will make you a payment option of $595 up front and they will deal with remaining balance later--and the $595 will prevent you from going to court and getting fees. They also gave me a fax number to mail the letters with is (213)405-5039. The person that called me name is Allen Smith and states he works for Crime Management but would not give phone numbers--and starts the conversation off by stating can I have the name of your attorney--trying to test you to see if you have the ability to report the scam to anyone of higher power. If someone can help me get to the bottom of this scam please do-and I am going to do everything in my power to stop this from happening to other as it already has--after reading some of the other comments from people with the similar case--it is identical to what is happening to me.  Thanks for reading and I hope this helps catch these criminals.

A man named Paul Frank keeps calling my boyfriend's cell phone. It's annoying. They are looking for Michelle Stroob; they just called again this morning asking for my call back to 310-362-4319. They said they need my power of attorney information. This man has terrible english, and you cannot understand him. I got fed up, so I called back with my mom being a lawyer and had a nice conversation with someone. :) Hopefully they will stop calling back, because my mom would love to get them for harassment! This is a total scam.

they to have been calling me and have all of my information, are rude and tell me that they are taking me to court tomorrow. i got a number for the place that i apparently owe money to and it sounded like the same person at the crime monitoring #. I called my bank and they dont have any information of these transactionsthat i suposedly did. SCAMMMMM

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(714) 409-0250 same call man speaking very bad english, with lots of background noise giving me another number to back on saying I owe for some kind of loan that was deposited into my meta bank account, never heard of meta bank looked them up online called and sure enough I do not have a bank account there, threatened that the police would be at my door first thing in the morning to take me to court. I told him this is a scam when he would not give me a number for this loan company or even send me copies of there proof.
he got very angry said I wopuld regret this when the police took me away to court tomorrow told him this is the united states and in this country nobody picks you up to give you a free ride to court, maybee to jail, but not to court. major scam. Meta banks fraud department was vewry interested in this call and took all the phone numbers i had.

Call came from 941-961-8518 on my phone but the message was left by someone that I couldn't understand say to call back at 310-362-4319. This is rediculous that this number keeps calling.....

Received a call from a James McClain for the crime monitoring center telling me I am going to be picked up and go to jail monday (he called friday) for not paying a debt to a company.  Would not give me any proof of anything and said my whole family will be sued if I don;t pay today.  $795-.  Wanted the 2 letters faxed and a copy of my debit card front and back including pin.  Had my acct information and said the company tried to take funds out several times but I don;t have any record of any NSF's from any payday loan co.  When they gave me the number of this "creditor" it was the same law firm, just another person.  They called from a blocked number, gave me 408-461-3101 and they did answer when I called back and the fax they gave me is 323-739-3335 and the number of the creditor, which is still them is 310-735-0192.  TOTAl scam, but they scared me to death and I almost just paid it then, but nothing was adding up...please don;t fall for this, TOTAL SCAM!

can't understand message

see posts at (714) 400-0563
(851) 322-8600
(310) 362-4319
(941) 961-8518
(714) 333-2954
(714)-333-2951

THIS IS A SCAM HONEY! I WAS CONTACTED BY THE SAME PERSON AND HE SAID HIS NAME WAS KEVIN JOHNSON. AND WHEN I REMEMBERED THAT I HAD NOT TAKEN OUT A PAYDAY LOAN WITH THESE PEOPLE OR ANY OTHER KINDA LOAN HE STATED THAT HE WOULD SUE ME,THE NEXT DAY I RECIEVED A CALL BY SOME OTHER JERK SAYING HE WAS CALLING ON BEHALF OF KEVIN JOHNSON AND HE WAS FROM THE LEGAL DEPT OF ACS AND THAT I WAS GOING TO BE SUED. I TOLD HIM TO KISS MY A** AND LEARN SOME DAMM ENGLISH! I HAVE NOT HAD A CALL SINCE. SO CALM HONEY AND DON'T LET THEM GET TO YOU.TELL THEM TO GET A LIFE!

I got a call from the same company, but the number was changed to 201-234-4071. They left a msg on my answering machine while I was at work warning me that me or my attorney needed to contact them, and ended the call that if I didn't then good luck to my kids due to the events that would unfold. I called back and spoke to "Will Connors" who had a indian accent and was hard to understand due to all the background noise. I asked what the call was about and he stated I owed a pay day loan for $300 that I took out in May 2008, and they were bringing up charges for fraud, writing a bad check, and failure to pay on the loan. I told him that I never even took out a pay day loan and he told me then that they were going to send someone to my home or work to arrest me on monday and bring me in for the charges. He then hung up. I called my court house to see if they had any info--none. So I called back and asked for the company name. He stated it was not a company but a law firm. I asked for the name of his "law firm" and he stated he worked for the crime monitoring division-- scam!!! He then said if I wasn't at home on monday they'd go to my work-- he knew where I worked and my position. He then said I'd better have my lawyer call him back in 20 min. I did call my lawyer. He told me that they couldn't do anything that they threatened. Even if they were ligit the only thing they could do would be go after me in a civil suit, my states statue of limitations has already passed on the so called other "charges". I also called the states attorneys office the ftc, and the bbb and reported them. Do NOT give them any info. This is a SCAM.

I received a phone call on Saturday May 3,2009, and I answered my phone and it was lisa calling from the Crime Monitoring Division Law firm I responded to her before she could speak to me with their home made read speech. I told her that I was in touch with our local FBI division and your call is being recorded. They hung up on me. Few hours passed and a new # 860 616-4046 they are now using a Hartford CT line which I live in CT. So, this# I called back and no one answered. 9419618518 is no longer in service. Now are getting real creative. But, My husband on Sunday was in the mood to aggravate them a little and told them to open up the door he wanted to pay a bill that they accused of us owing. They asked him if he was drunk. Then he continued to call and say that he wanted to have someone open up the door and let him in he was downstairs they hung up. I called back and said this was the fbi and we want to come into the building they replied I know its you calling and they hung. They have our caller ID #. So this is to all CT residents this is a huge scam. I was going to call and ask them where are the two people coming to take me to court and jail but I just left it all alone. My husband talked to them for a 45 minute call just to wear their minutes out, but they get very frustrated and hang up. It has several#'s but all say verizon wireless is out of service or has been disconnected.

Contact the better business bureau of California.  There are a few complaints out there and this company is not responding.  They are marked as frads and they are being investigated.

I received the same call on Friday.  They stated that I took out a payday loan from Fast Cash in 01/2008 and never paid it back.  They kept putting me on hold.  When I tried to call him back on Saturday morning- to get a fax number to fax a letter to show that if I did this I didn't mean to it was constantly busy.  I don't want to get sued...So I told him I would try and make payments.  Not sure when.  He just said ok.  The original call came in from Michael Davis...Then they transferred me to Ramone....Not sure what to do.  I don't want any judgements.  Please help!!

This outfit is (more than likely) associated with the following (from ec's post http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-9141):

It's a scam, and all their threats are false and illegal.  The bottom line is, these are criminals trying to steal consumers' money.

Here are a few news reports and government advisories warning consumers about this scam:

ABC News:  http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5621205&page=1
West Virginia Attorney General:  http://www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam.cfm
WTAE TV4, Pittsburgh:  http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/call4action/17285785/detail.html
Florida Commissioner of Consumer Services:  http://www.800helpfla.com/newsletter/2008/092008.html

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 gobbylgook 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, Christian Nicholas & Associates, US Federal Bank, Sonic Bank, Hopkins Law Office, CashNet, 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.)

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 (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.naag.org

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/1-336-553-3965
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-909-6789
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/1-310-909-8245
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

US National Bank Scammers Still Extorting Hapless Consumers

"US National Bank" is still at it, calling up people and threatening them with jail time unless they pay up for debts they never took out and USNB doesn't own.

http://consumerist.com/5086468/us-national-ba ... pless-consumers

Hi, he advised me of the same thing.  I don't know hat to do, I told him not to call me anymore, and said that I stolen money from some one, and that he feels sorry for my family because I would be going to jail on Monday.  And I need to contact a attorney.  Does anyone know who these people are?  Knows all of my bank information and my address.

I received this exact same call and the number shows up as 123-456-7890 on my caller ID.  There was a guy on the line with a strong accent stating his name is Charles.  I searched for the number on line after he told me the number in his division is (31) 362-4319.  I searched on google and found this site.  It is the same response I got when I called them.  When I called, I asked the guy what is the name of the business I"m calling.  He told me it was a law firm.  The he asked me what number I was calling from.  He said that there were 3 charges against me and I was going to jail.  I owed a payday loan and was using my e-mail address to solicit money into my WAMu account.  I have no idea how he knew where I banked, but I told him that I know of no such thing.  He said they have tried to e-mail me several times regarding the issue and the message bounced back.  Right there and then I told him to go #$(%^ himself and this was a scam.  He then stated it wasn't a scam and that he would let me speak to his boss.  I told him to put his boss on the line and then he hung up.  I don't think he'll call here again.

I received a call from 941-961-8518, couldn't understand him, very heavy accent, told me I need to immediately call this number or my attorney needs to call. If not, all he could do was wish me "Good Luck" would not give a name of business . I think it is a scam

Andrew Brown, David Walker, Joyce, Leza are the names that I've talked to states they are with American Credit or Law Office of Crime Monitoring Division depending on who you talk to. They say I owe money and that they would drop my case if I fax them my bank statement to prove I never received money

I have been receiving the same calls at my work. I can hardly understand what the caller is saying because of the thick accent and loud background noise. They called my HR rep and she took a message. When I called them back they said they were with American credit and that I took out an online payday loan back in September of 2007 for $300. I told him that I never received any money from an online payday loan and had the bank records to prove it. He told me to call back when I had the bank records in my hands and they would drop my case. I called back and spoke to an Andrew Brown who told me they were the Crime Monitory Division in L.A., CA. I asked for his fax # and was given 213-405-5039. When I asked who to make it attention to he said, David Walker because he was sitting next to the fax machine. He kept trying to get me off the phone, but I kept asking questions trying to find out if they were ligit and he just said fax the statement and your case would be dropped. That's when I decided to look into this. How do I report them???

I have also received calls from this apparent collection agency. I was given the same threat as the above callers and "wished luck" in several of the messages from 'Joe Franklin". When I did fianlly call back to find out what was up, I could not understand the person on the phone and told him so. He said that I owed $1000 and that American Credit Services was taking me to court. I kept telling him I could not understand him and that I wanted something in writing before I would do anything. He danced around the in writing request and finally put on a supervisor who sounded exactly the same as the previous caller. While I had them on the phone I googled the phone number they had given me and saw these posts. This is definately a scam! Just like the person above, if they won't give you something in writing HANG UP!!

I got a call from them also the  talked me into giving them five hundred dollars and setting up another payment on April 8 2009. after doing some research because I did have some payday loans but they were all paid off. I realized I do not have anything outstanding and these people were scam artist tha t just got my information and tried to get money such a scam.I cancelled the credit card and got a credit form my credit card company. Since cancelling they have tried to charge that card again my credit  card company told me so they also see that this is a scam. After they were not able to charge my card they called me again I was ready for them and after I finished with Mr.Paul M. and told him I had no loan that was outstanding and I had it verified through my bank he told me to fax that to him, hell no you fax to me who I owe he had no response and wished me luck.Over a week  now have never heard back form them spoke to the police and Attoney General about them which I informed him and never heard back again. Just want to let everyone know if they cannot provide you with who you owe in writting HANGUP.

I received a call from Alex Martin claiming to be with law offices crime monitoring div. He calls my work number and caled 3-4 times on Friday 4/17. Caller claims that 2 legal officers will come to my prior address and haul me away to court and that i will go to jail for not paying $5,000? The gentleman has a very strong accent and sounds like he is calling from a call center as there are several people in the background that appear to be making similar calls to people. I work in Scarborough Maine. Caller has my name, last 4 of social and my prior address along with my work phone number? This is an apparent scam!

I received a call from Alem Martin claiming to be with law offices crime monitoring div. He calls my work number and caled 3-4 times on Friday 4/17. Caller claims that 2 legal officers will come to my prior address and haul me away to court and that i will go to jail for not paying $5,000? The gentleman has a very strong accent and sounds like he is calling from a call center as there are several people in the background that appear to be making similar calls to people. I work in Scarborough Maine. Caller has my name, last 4 of social and my prior address along with my work phone number? This is an apparent scam!

I got the same phone call and kept getting disconnected.  They were telling me it was in regards to a payday loan and that they had tried to email me 15 times.  A "senior attorney" got on the phone, again with an accent and told me that it was for american Credit services and that they manage hundreds of websites so there is no way that they can tell me who it is for.  He got very rude with me and we finally ended the call.  I am glad other people are having this problem.  I will just ignore it for now.