Said its a legal matter need to call immediately or face charges

ITS A SCAM AND DONT PAY HIM AND CALL THE FEDCERAL TRADE COMMISON AND REPORT HIM !

If he's calling at work showing your supervisor this thread will probably help.  Once your supervisor knows its a scam and you can't make it stop maybe he will be more sympathetic.  

If I were you I would print this whole thread right now and show it to my boss at the start of my next shift.

what could would it do if I told my supervister was going on ? aslo that other stuff ???

Tell your supervisor what's happening so your super will not be taken by surprise if this criminal should reach your super. Disclosure is the best defense. Then consider using a whistle, air horn or screaming smoke alarm to blow his ears off.

The so called "ryan Johnson'' has been calling my work and cell phone and saying we owm him money . I called and Reported Him to hotline and what are suppose to do stop calles at my work ?????

Steve I called and report it and he wont stop calling now what ??????????

I called the fdc and that didnt do anything and He wont stop calling.

Same here just happened a minute ago, I had this also happen to me months back. Don't give him any money, its definitely a pull.

i got a call from this number today at work. the person had accent and claim his name was deputy rye johnson. i called him back after i got the message from a co-worker he couldnt get give me specific information i was asking for. He kept saying that i have suit against me for not paying a loan. when asked what loan he couldn't answer. i told him that i was going to get my lawyer involved and for him to stop calling me. He then said he was going to contact my supervisor and that i could get fired if I dont resolve the situation. I hope someone does something about this because I don't want these people to keep calling my job.

the same ryan johnson called us asking for money we owed and saying he would clear our credit and if we didnt do it then he would see us in court tomorrow, That we was committing federal affiance and would pay for it, I wouldnt give him any information and told him i had to talk to our agent and let her find out about it and he didnt expect that and fought us on it then hung up.

the same here he called saying we owed money had some of our information and said he had to collect 555.oo dollars from us. he name was ryan johnson.

fake officer ryan johnson called me too. what a fool that guy is. i reported them and called back and screamed at them.

Liars trying to manipulate my situation to extort money. bunch of criminals! I reported them to FTC

Tell them you won't settle no matter how mean an threatening they get you don't owe them anything they cannot do anything but harass you have fun with it humor them block your number and prank them they are worthless thieves I told them I won't do any settlement they haven't bugged me since

same thing happening to me

I have aslo been called today at work 3 times and I dont know what do about it.
do I call that number for the federal trade commission ?

This person called yelling and saying that there was a file against me and had my social.

Received 2 calls today, one at home & one on the cell. This # also called my work no less than 6-10 times over a 2 week period, ridiculous. Claims his name is "Ryan Johnson".  All calls are being reported to the FTC hotline either on line or by calling 877-FTC-HELP (877-382-4357). This is a major SCAM operation out of India.  All people called are encouraged to contact the Federal Trade Commission and report this, do not give them money.  An online payday loan database was hacked back in December 2011 and many people had their personal information compromised. This is not the first attempted scam via repeated aggressive calls from people with thick foreign accents, I've had to deal with at least 8 others so far since then.

I got that call at work today 3 time $110 today that there would federal case or somthing also saying he was a sheif.

Just got that call too. At work! Hung up on him 4 times!

This number keeps harrasing me and got my work numbere some how. said he was a sherrif, was an emergency etc the list goes on.

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 have had the same call about 4 times now, this guy has even called my work. I returned his call today since it's to the point of calling my job. When I returned the call he had an accent I couldn't understand him at all but he did mention Advance America, federal fraud, federal court, reporting it on my credit and they would also be at my job today before noon to pick me up. I contacted my attorney right away since I had filed a recent bankruptcy and had him call the number back that had called my job. He called them and gave them my bankruptcy case number and advised them of the bankruptcy, when I advised him of the bankruptcy he told me I was submitting a refusal to pay then hung up on me. We will see what happens and if the phone calls stop.

I got a call from this number regrding some cash advance company holding me in violation of federal banking laws and that they were taking me into Federal Court to file papers against me. He wouldn't give me any solid information and kept yelling at me to settle this matter. He sounded like he was reading from a script. I told him I had an attorney and he refused to take the number saying he didn't need to talk to my attorney. He also said he ws calling from Florida and this is clearly a Michigan number. I was leary because it sounded like someone from another country trying to scheme me out of some money. Be leary and don't give out any info if you get a call from them!