strange, i got a call from this number 321-354-0770 and it was actually one of my contractors that i deal with on a regular basis.  connection sounded muffled, almost as if someone was listening in.

I believe the caller id (CID) is bogus and is an violation of the TCPA act of 1991. This can be a $1,000 fine in small claims court should anyone want to press it.

Also, I believe this call to my phone was from a debt collector. They are also violating the FDCPA in hiding their identity and masking their purpose. This could be another $1,000 fine.

If we all understand these laws that we fought so hard to get passed for our own protection, and then actually take these bums to court over violations, we can stop a lot of these nonsense phone calls.

people from india trying to sell me their outsourced website design service to me! I own a website design firm.

Here's the scoop.  At 9:22A on June 11th, I got a call "insufficient data" on our phone.  I *69 and got the nuber 800-660-2465 - which is JPMorganChase.  At 9:23 (yes, I barely had enough time to hang up), I got a call from 800-Service, 800-660-2465 - which again is JPMorganChase.  

Then at 9:24AM,I got a call from Seimen's Medical.  Because I had applied for a job at Seimens, I responded to the call - with the felling of being spoofed.  

I spoke with a guy named Michael Sebastian, with a heavy accent.  I told him that the person he called committed suicide due to the harassing phone calls and not to call again.  He had the nerve to ask "why I am so excited!"  He admited that he was calling from CollectCall or something like that (all under the caller ID of Siemen's Medical).  He gave me his phone number as 321-354-0770 (this number).  I told him to quit the harassing phone calls and that I was going to report him.  He wanted to know why ... LOL

At 9:41A another call came in from the ID of "insufficient data" and I spoke with Rachael.  She asked to speak to the other person, then asked to speak to me.  After I verified who she was and got as much information as I could, I told her the people had committed suicide.  She admitted she was from ICSystems, which I know to be a collection agency known to work with Chase.  So, in short, Chase is behind the following numbers:  800-660-2465, 321-354-0770, 651-204-1310 ... and they change numbers and caller ids to spoof people.  

I am going to report them as they have been told on several occasions not to call this number.

Received call today at 7:oopm 8/23/09.  Caller ID read Siemens Medical.  Mom picked it up.  Sonya on the phone wanting to talk to me.  Says she's from Premier Visa Credit Card.  Wants my check information to make a payment.  I tell her I don't make payments over the phone and that I'll mail it in.

I recieved a call from 321 354 0770 and he said he was the pizza guy and could not find our house.. Told him he could come but I was not paying for a pizza.. This is at 1139 at night. Scared me cause he had my mom's name and address.. I called the non emergency line and reported.

I think this is a number from Skype....maybe?

I got this call at eleven thirty at night. only he said he was the pizza guy and could not find my house, Scary thing is he had my mom's name and address.. I call the non emergency line and reported it.

I have been receiving several calls a day (and at all hours of the night) from the 321-534-0770 number. I am a psychologist and have to be available to answer my phone 24-7. I am currently trying to find a way to block this number. I was glad to find out that this is not a legitimate caller.

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
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-213-232-4395

...and, Many, MANY more

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

Received a call from 321-354-0770 at 1:30 am in the morning then 4 more times 1 had the number1999881688 I finally disconnected the phone Its bad enough in the day time but the middle of the night is disgusting

2 guys from India (telemarketer, then on hold then supervisor with more experience), trying to convince me to use them for outsourcing website design services. I own a website design service and I always get these calls, so I pretend that I called them asking them to outsource to me. Drive them nuts!!

I got a call from this number, and well, it is a spoof. It probably was the id of the phone company who did the last run of the call, because it was my mom calling from Nicaragua.

the number is received by my phone and is reportedly a spoof according to the phone company. there is never anyone on the other end of the line. I've also received unknown and private and 0000123456 as caller ids and there is never anyone that is on the other end.

I received a call on 3/13/09 from a man who has a middle eastern accent.
Who want either myself or my attorney contact him or things will
escalate and no one can help me.This same guy called me on 3/11 -3/12
from 407-358-6052. The message he left said to call him at 1-714-333-2943.
On 3/12/09 he said he was from American credit services and today he said
he was from Seimens medical.I filed a complaint with the FTC and the
State attorney. What else should I do?