I got calls from both of these people and will be reporting them to the police today.  They told me they were looking for Towanna Wilson and that I was her mother... LOL!!! You'd think I'd remember popping out another kid, right??  They are saying she is wanted for check fraud and will be sending out the authorities to arrest me.  Then Jennifer, since she called me at work after I called to get this figured out, she said she was going to report my activity to my boss... like she knows who that is.  She cursed me out and kept hanging up on me.  At first I was scared but now it's like, bring it on bro.  I dare for them to call me again.  I've got a can of whip a** waiting for them when they do.

Me too here guys. The guy said he name was London Dupree then a woman named Jennifer Right saying if I don't pay that I can talk to the judge.  That there will be 4 felony charges against me. The called from number 334-578-0706. I cant find any information on the number. They said that I had a payday loan that I didn't pay from 2008. What do you think guys?

Same call here about some payday loan which I never did. Goog led them while on phone and let Shaun Williams know he was going to b reported. Didn't like that answer from me. I hung up on him.

333-352-9973.  Yep, that's it!  Same song 1000,000th verse.  I was unate.  I only got took for $300.  Have not been paying attention to the news and online fraud and got took.  Indian, threatening, and the same stuff as above.  They weren't so snotty with me when I cooperated with them but I fell for the court threat thing because I was waiting to hear about another court case that I was innocently involved with.  I thought it was connected.  Then they told me that I was approved for my $1000 loan if I paid the possessing fee that I agreed to on the internet agreement that I digitally signed.  I had done that and believed them and beeing a man of my word, agreed to pay the prosseing fee of $275.  My money would be put into my bank account the next morning.  One week passed when a friend of mine asked me for the phone #.  He did a search and found all this crap above.  I am not only embarrassed but PISSED!!!!!  I have a few threats of my own for them but I have far more important things to do that play phone games.  I would love to help someone bring these jack***es down.

Got a call a little bit ago and got into a yelling match with the jerk on the phone. Told him to bring it on. Show up at my work and arrest my a**. My sister is a cop and I know how the system works. Not too mention the fact they don't just call you out of the blue and give you 24 hrs to pay some huge fine. We have certain procedures here that legit law has to follow and any law abiding citizen / businessman in the states would know that. He hung up on me so I called him back. Only gave him my phone number but no other information. Kept telling me that he could only talk to the person concerning the legal matter and that was not me. Stupid man had no idea who he was or wasn't talking to. Then he wanted to know if I was going to be at the courthouse to take care of the legal matter. Told him "no". You need to come "arrest me" me cuz I know you're a scam and full of s***. And then he hung up on me.

I got a call from the same people...did they send the police?  Did they say there was a pending criminal suit against you and you may be arrested?

I recieved numerous calls from this so called "Jackson Law Firm" Heavy Indian accent man with a very American name claiming he's going to arrest me on Monday! Knows my ss#, place of work, and my address. Smh....someone needs to stop these people.

i got a call today that theres criminal charges on for a loan from some law furm wwitch the loan was payed first they said i have to pay 8 thousand dollars then they said $423.29 when i called the number back someone pick up and just listen nthe number they called from is 3343529970 ext 213

They called me today. I told them I was going to blow their brains out after I tracked down their family in New Delhi and I don't care that their phone number is spooked into Alabama. They said they were coming to arrest me on Monday morning. I said "What time?". No answer and hung up on told my a** was going to jail. Yadda.

I got a call from them this afternoon about a defaulted payday loan which wasn't paid in full. I paid what I owed but not their interest. Anyway, they said I was going to be arrested on Monday morning, listed 3 counts I was being charged with and they were coming to my work to arrest me. I of course asked what time were they coming to my work and who it was that was coming for me (which law enforcement agency) they wouldn't provide me which agency, which city, which county, anything...nothing....so I said how about you just meet me at my house and I will have your $200.00 in cash interest waiting for you and let's see you try and arrest me...you will have to go through 4 people in the home who are heavily armed and 3 very large dogs to get that $200.00...but I will leave it for you on the porch in plain sight.....it's all yours...the Indian woman (a different one this time) comes on and says "YOUR A** IS GOING TO JAIL SUCKER".

I said not before I a** rape you and your mom and your sisters in New Delhi you idiot calling me from ALABAMA?

I never take ANY s*** from these idiots. Call them out on everything...you will NEVER get a straight answer from them. They are skip tracing for the original debtor or whoever bought the debt and now owns it. The Payday loan company decided to add more interest on my original loan because my payment processed too late on their end.

Not an MP but a YP is what I told them and I don't care about the magic on those tapes.

I have received the same message as the people above.  Is there anything I can do or file to report these people?  Kevin Fernandez was verbally abusive to me on the phone for a loan that I do not have.  Any help would be appreciated!

They call and said they are going to arrest me at my job Friday but they dont say for what or anything but they have my info like ss# and all! These people need to be stopped!!!

Kevin Fernandez from Gerald and Jackson lawfirm just called me with that same bs

I received the same call from this supposed Law office. They would not give me their state bar number. The caller tried to tell me that I would owe 8442 dollars if I did not do what he said. I threatened them if they ever called me again I would be reporting them to the Deptartment of Homeland Security.  They had my information all of it, and said I took out some payday loan, which I never did

This is a criminal extortion ring operating out of India. ABC News released an investigative report on it in June. The FTC has indicted one of its ringleaders for criminal fraud:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/phantom-debt-co ... 16512428&page=1

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/08/bgm.shtm

They are idiots,  they are trying to scare people and should be stopped.  What is worse,  the caller ID shows they call every  5 minutes,  they harass you when they call,  totall unprofressional and they need to go back to the training class on how to conduct themselves.

A guy who sounded like he was from India called my phone today with the same claim that he was from a law firm and was asking me for my lawyers infomation, stating that I had committed some type of fraud and would go to jail for this "fraud." I asked what company was this supposed act committed against, he replied American Cash. I told him if he had all this information then theres no need to call my phone and hung up. Then he called me back and said How dare you hang up on me, you don't care about this matter? And then yelled you're going to jail. Of course I hung up again. Then I tried to call back to see if I could hear a recording with the name of the company, the phone rang then it was answered but nothing was said. -_- Stop It I Say!!!

they call and say that i have a lawsuit going against me.

these people should go to jail, Forget the damm drug dealers and go get these scum off of our world

I got a phone call today from a John Griffin, from this number. Said there's a lawsuit in my name and ss# and that i will be arrested, taken to court and possibly jail if i didn't pay $780 right there and then. He went on to say that if i decide to fight it, it could possibly cost up tp $8000.
I recently took out a loan, knowing what the repayment agreement is and when i mentioned that, he said he would investigate it further and hung up.

Called me today saying that I had to pay $930 or they would arrest me at work.  Refused to give me any information about creditor, or to provide me with any evidence they were a real law firm.  Also the Gerald and Jackson Law firm supposedly.  Said in order to send me proof they would have to actually file the suit against me.  Told me to go to Walmart or CVS and get a green dot card.  Thought this was WAY too weird that it would be an untraceable transaction.

I had this happen to me once. Then Sean Anderson from Gerald & Jackson Law Firm, 100 N Dean Rd in Auburn, Al at 334-352-9973 called me today. I didn't answer the call at first because I was at a funeral. When I listened to the voice message he left I knew exactly what to do. The police in my home town told me this when they got me for $419.00 the last time. I called back and got their name and address and asked for their Bar Association number as my attorney needed  it to make sure they where licensed to practiced law in my state. We of course they wouldn't give that to me and said they would call me back. Well I did a quick google search and already knew they were a scam and found that their is no law firm at that address in the state of Alabama. So then I called them back and thanked them for giving me their mailing address but without their state bar association number I would no longer talk to them. Well of course they just gave me a biogas number as I looked it up online while he gave it to me. Then I told him that I was reporting him to The US Department of Homeland Security for committing acts of Fraud, scams and Terrorism on me. He hung up. So far no more calls from him but I did turn the information that I got to the FTC and Homeland Security. Hopefully someone will see this and do the same thing I did. We have to stand up and report them so they can be stopped.

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 recieved a call with someone with an accent like he was from india in which he tranfered me to another person that read of my social security number and address it sounded as if he was reading for a script he asked not to be interupeted then he said i was being procecuted for fraud and how they were going to contact my job and the three reporting credit  companys to let them know i was a person in intrest for fraud and if  irecieved any goverment assistance they will be notified. I have already contacted leagal representation and i and going to have them apply for this loan and pretend as if they want to apply and  get them for harassment and false information.tking about in thirty days you will be arrested i cant wait to catch they a** and see them be walked off to jail they dont know who i know its going to be viral whats going to happen to them they whole world will know

I just got a call from this number the man with an accent said he worked for a law firm and claimed they have a law suit against my soscial security nmber. I told him he did not and that this sounded like a scam. He said fine he would send officer Bell to arret me. End of call.