This NUmber Is A 5K Loan Company

There is a fairly common IRS or "tax scam" being practiced by scammers in both Canada and the USA.
USA tax payers should read this:
http://www.irs.gov/uac/Tax-Scams-Consumer-Alerts
Note particularly the links at that site, warning of the scam!

Here is a growing list of (mostly government) sites were you can report or learn more about such scams.
While you are at that site, look at the other pages as well, for good information on how to recognize or prevent scams.

http://phonehelp.2truth.com/complaint_sites.html

Irs Scam They Took 500 Dallars From Me

Total scam. Its some dumb Indian, probably lives in some s*** house in Mumbai, calling innocent people trying top extort money. They will threaten deportation etc LOL

Caller posing as IRS and asking for personal details. When challenged for authenticity became foul mouthed. Clearly a scammer.

I keep getting the same calls as Beth has from the same person he just called again today 3/4/14 demanding money just for reassurance on my part this is a scam right someone please help

He calls me 4 or 5 times s day and even ony dork phone

This is a criminal extortion scam operating out of India. They are making the calls utilizing VOIP and the names of legitimate firms to make it appear the calls are originating from within the US. There is NO "company" or "debt" and you will NOT be arrested. They are harvesting and/or buying consumers' personal identifying information and you need to do whatever you can to protect yourself. This includes: Notifying the FTC: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/, placing fraud alerts with all three credit bureaus, notifying your bank and employer and letting these criminals know you are aware they are attempting to extort money for a non-existent debt and have alerted the authorities.

Read this investigative report ABC News did on this scam:

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 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.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/phantom-debt-co ... ory?id=16512428

Thank you for every thing.  He has not stopped calling and i was wonderig if there was a way to find out where he is located.  If there is any more info you can help me with this... i do thank you!!!!!

This is a scam. It's been all over the local news here in North Carolina. You should NOT have paid anything. No one asks you to get a green dot card to pay something off. Google "Green Dot Scam", I'll bet you a ton of stuff will come up.

I got a phone call saying I had a warrant for me from the federal legiastion of custmner affirs on 2/26/14.  I was talking to Mike joshton from there. l was told to get a green dot vocher, not a green dot prepaid card.  I was told to pay 179 at first, but after I paid I was told to pay a total of 298 more.  I did not have that amount so I pay 116 on another green dot vocher.  They took the money and then they said I had to pay 776 more after that.  I don't know where all this is coming from and they woud not explain it to me.  They said I would get arrested today If I did not ay the 776.......I don t have that amount in full and I am worried my bank account is going to be hacked(if it is not alreadly)  

Is there any way we can get help with this problem?  I believe and my husband believes the guys is trying to rip us of of our hard earned money and getting pissed.  I hope you can help in any way!!  please call George ate 732 773 7560 asap today before the guys calls him at 9 am.