310-362-9322 called me on my cell & @ work. I thought it was a real person however, it was the same message on voicemail @ work. Said I shouldn't disregard this call....If I do then "Tony Shaw" wishes me good luck....it is time sensitive that I call them back to discuss this account.  I don't have any accounts with this person or business or whatever? Just tells me to call back the above number.

It was a collection agency.

A man named "Toni Shaw" called me at work twice...Once on Monday (5/18/09), and once today (5/20/09). I finally was able to talk to him today. He gave a call-back number of 410-713-4841 and 310-362-9322, both of which ring busy when I try to call back. He said he was with a law firm but I couldn't understand the law firm's name. He said there was a pending lawsuit against me for an outstanding payday loan, and he wanted the name and contact information of my lawyer. He was very illiterate and found complete difficulty trying to put words together to explain why he was calling (as if he was unskilled at creating lies on the fly). I could barely hear him, as there was a lot of background noise, and sounded like a VoIP call. I asked him what personal information he had on file for me. He told me the last 4 digits of my social security number, and I asked him what my "full SS# was", so he spouted off my full social security number, my address, and my dad's name (as a reference)! He was very vague, except when I asked specific questions. I told him I would have to call him back, because I was at work. The only thing I can think of as far as how he got all this information (including my work phone number) is from my filling out a form online for a payday loan, and/or "special offer" that asked for that information (from all those stupid Facebook applications). They are either hacking the servers containing that information, or putting up bogus sites to collect this information from unsuspecting people. BEWARE!

OMG! Cancel everything honey. Never give your information out like that.

OMG! I just got this call today and they were saying the police were coming to my home Monday morning and if I didn't comply they were going to arrest me. they said i took out a payday loan from Bank of America, when do they ever do payday loans, I don't do loans. I said send the police to my house right now and I will be there in ten mins, I havent seen them yet and they called me at 12:30pm today.

told me that the police would be at my house to get me if I didnt comply.

I am freaking I gave this crazy people all of my card information!  What should I do?

I just recieved a call fromt his number.  He wanted to leave a message for my husband. He said he had to call today because there is a lawsuit against him at his firm that goes to court tommorow.

I just got a call a couple minutes ago. Scared the crap out of me!! They told me I had a payday loan from a year ago that was not paid off, when I went to check my bank account and found no such thing, I tried calling them back and the number was disconnected.  WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE!!

The call was abusive. Telling (me)I pretent to be my husband. He said  that someone was coming to my husband job on Monday to take him to court.  Them put him in jail, and also charge him $5,000.00.

Well, I likewise have received these calls...I work for a police department.  I am checking to see what can be done to stop these people.  I am not sure how they have obtained all the info they have.  But trust me, I would have known if someone "deposited" extra money in my checking account!!!! The number they left to call was 310-362-9322

yes i got a call today with that same number, person said that they had a legal case against me??

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

I got that same triffling call the other day for my husband.  I admit at first I was shook.  They sound as if they are at a rat race with all that noise in the background (VoIP).  My husband didn't understand jack they were saying and he kept saying yes so I picked up the phone in the other room and this trick was calling herself reading rights I informed him what she was saying and he hung up. So I stayed on the call to be transferred to her Manager and spoke with a retarded foreigner name Simon.  OH MY GOD!  He threatened me that I would be imprisoned because I was yelling and cursing. You damn right I was, calling and disturbing our peaceful day. I was livid. I wish I catch them and ring 'em by the freakin' neck for that BS.

Has anything happend to you since in regards to withdraws from your bank account or account closures?  

I had the same experience from this alleged "attorney" company and I recently my checking account has somehow "vanished".  

I don't know what they are capable of because they have all our info.  It's freaking me out and I figured that when I told him never to call me again and he was a scam that it would stop them from screwing with me but that's not the case.

Anyways I have a feeling they are getting info from cell companies as they are switching up their numbers almost every 4 days and start using new ones - seems like they are hacking wireless companies.  I believe this is where they are retrieving our information, who is your wireless company?  

I'm with Sprint - feel free to email me, my name is Joe and my e-mail is jmf168344@yahoo.com - just curious if anyone else is experiencing this tragedy and now I have to wait until morning and wake up on my weekend to go speak with my bank - no contact, no e-mails, no mail - account just dissapeared.

Very scared what they can do!

Same guy called me again.  I received the same call about 2 months ago, and he threatened the same thing.  The scary part is that he has my social security number and home address. This is definitely a scam! He always says someone will come to my house to arrest me.

caller called my work today and told them it was a emergency call, however, when they was going to transfer the call the caller left a name of Shawn Louis and number 310-362-9322. They also called yesterday and called my cell phone making threats if I didn't comply quickly. Who are these scammers?

Same people who call from 941-961-8518 and 310-362-4319 (this number is now disconnected.

They are scammers trying to get you to send them money on non=existent loans. Heavy Accent, Told me the police will be at my house in the morning to put me behind bars for at least 10 months.