Well this number is enrouted through some guys with heavy accent and in background they talk in some foreign language name like Uttham, seedhaarth and they forced me to pay back the month which already paid twice to them through money gram or pay pal which is in name of Patrick Williams. God i don't know from where they got my information and threaten me by saying if I don't pay then FBI will be there in 5 min to arrest me.
Do FBI interested in such cases?

I have already reported this telepphone number to the FBI, FTC, Maine State Police, and the Maine Consumer Credit Protection Bureau.  They all say do not pay them any money, they are a scam.

She says her name is Mary Brown, but I can't even understand her, I don't think that is her real name.  Very asian accent.

you guys i got a call just a few days a go first i ansered and i could not understand what he was saying so i hung up on him,then he got mad and left a very threatining voicemail and told me that i had better have an attorney on hand  he had my ss# and everything. sd that i was going to be arrested and all kinds of stuff so i called him back his name was "officer williams" and he was so rude and threatining but he could noot tell me why he was saying such harrassing things he gave me his name number and supposed badge number! well guess what so happens i do have an attorney on hand and now he has all that info and is going to put a stop to this right away!!!!!!

JACK SMITH is the name used in the phone scams. This appears to be one of the scammers here who posted this message tryign to convey a message that they are real..not so smart with the grammer is written just like the people talk....anyway to track who posted this as posted by Jack Smith????

THE PHONE CALLS ARE CON PEOPLE USING A ROUTER FROM NIGERIA OR INDIA REGION!!!!!!!!!!!! DO NOT GIVE THEM ANY INFORMATION. INSTEAD ASK THEM QUESTIONS ABOUT WHERE THEY ARE, ASK THEM QUESTIONS ABOUT WANTING THE STREET ADDRESS< ASK THEM QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT BUILDING THEY ARE LOCATED NEXT TO SO YOU CAN COME THERE> ASK HOW YOU ARE TO COME TO THEM..THEY WILL HANG UP ON YOU AND THEY WILL EVENTUALLY STOP CALLING FOR AWHILE UNTIL THEY RECRUIT SOME MORE POOR SLOBS TO CALL YOU. IT IS A SCAM SINCE NO ONE IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OR THE PHONE COMPANY WILL HELP ANY OF US BECAUSE THEY DO NOT HAVE ANY WAY OF MAKING MONEY OFF THIS THE ONLY WAY WE CAN GET THEM IS TO KEEP POSTING. ANYONE HAVE NAY MORE INFORMATION NOT POSTED YET< SHARE IT!!!!!!!!!

I have been getting threatening and harrassing calls from this number too and the same persons and persons. I tell them I want thier mailing address, they ask why do I need that. I ask them other personall questions too and then they put me on hold. They have gone so far as to hang up on me when the questions were getting to tuff for them. I have reported here, I ahve contacted teh FBI, I have contacted the business that owns that phone number and they all just act like no big deal, the phone company won't give me any informaton, won't assist and the feds could careless. If I find out anymore will keep the group posted, but our government isn't going to do anything about it, it isn't a money maker for them in anyway so they could care less about the fraud of these poeple..

Even though we informed Mr. Lee??, that we had turned everything over to the FBI, FTC, Maine State Police, and the Maine Consumer Protection Agency and that they had advised to pay no more monies, he still call!!  I see some of the comments on this site type the English language just as bad as they speak it.

Mr. Lee called today, Thanksgiving, and left a message on my husbands cell phone asking him for a fax number so he can fax him an affidavit.  My husband is not going to respond to him.

Ben Lee called my husband back after he called and said no more phone calls, that we had contacted the FBI, Secret Service, Attorney Generals office, and the Maine State Police.  My husband ask for his address and he gave him 307 Main Mount Dr, Ashboro, NC.  This address not exist.  He tells us he is recording our conversations.  Even though he has no idea where my daughter is now living, he is going to have her arrested  if we do not pay up.  Another thing, he has not quoted us the same pay off twice, they all vary by quite a bit.  I reminded him of this and he ask me if I was sure, and I assured him that took notes every time.  These scammers need to be stopped.

Glad to help, Queen.  Good job holding their criminal feet to the fire!  :)

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You are so on it.  Thanks a million.  It's funny because the very same scammers are writing responses praising themselves (as if we AMERICAN'S don't know) This Mr. Lee guy and Mary calls me and expects me to pay 2,753.40 for a 400 payday loan I got in 2007 but have since moved from the address.  Mr Lee refused to give me details and or any other information to contact the originator.  He did not even ask for my current address.  He threatened me stating I would incur legal expenses up to 6K and stated the settlement he was offering was 2,753.40 (YES MR. LEE AND YOUR INDIAN POSSE ? I AM DOCUMENTING EVERYTHING)  he continues to call me (at work) even though I stated not to call me there. This is annoying at best and these people need to be shut down.  Thanks for the information.  I want to ensure those who are also being harassed to request something in writing from them, and once they refuse (and they will) then you know it?s a scam and just hang up in their face.

i received 3 calls today from a James Maxwell and the number he called from was 415 880-5599, but the number he left for me to call back was 336 308-4124-4125. Same type of call, wanting me to pay a debt, the debt has already been paid. You really have to listen to understand him. They give no real information even when you call them back, they just make threats.

It's a scam. See my message below for more details and for information on reporting these crooks to federal and state law enforcement.

It's a scam. And all their threats are false and illegal. ABC News and the West Virginia Attorney General have warned consumers about this scam; here are the links:

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5621205&page=1
http://www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam.cfm

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 gobblygook 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, Legal Affidavit, Hopkins Law Office, United Legal Processing, Morgan Associates, United Pay Services, National Processing, White Collar Crime Unit, United Federal Bureau 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.)

The bottom line is, these are criminals trying to steal your money.

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 (Read 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/1-925-262-1327
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/1-949-743-1156
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/1-954-678-9724
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-610-571-3252
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-310-909-8245
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-321-221-0018
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-408-404-1520
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-901-328-9342
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-908-244-2001

This person, Ben Lee, keeps calling and threatening to have my daughter arrestred if I do not pay back her pau day loan.  He called my office 12 times in a row and my cell phone 7 times.  I had to have my cell phone number changed and am in danger of losing my job.  If you do *69 after he calls, the number comes up for Nevada but the return number is in N.C.  This seems kind of fishy??  Is the for real or just a scam??

I get a call from this number and I immediately put this no. in "Google" and d funny part of these notes is that I am not able to understand that why some of us r making a big issues of dis. I think u r d peoples who wants to escape from paying back whatever u have taken from. I agree that their way is very very wrong but they r doing for the sake of our country America.

yes dear. i m the same person.
thnks 4 tht.

Are you the same John Cena that I watch on WWE Raw. If so you are a tremendous athlete.

www.wwe.com/superstars/raw/johncena/

It is amazing how such an American sounding name (Jack Smith) has such little command of basic English and grammar. I received the same type of call from Sam Duncan, Don Wilson, and Alfred Thompson all with heavy accents. Sounds fishy to me.

THE AGENT WHO ARE WORKING IN UNITED FEDRAL BEAUREA IS SOMETHING LIKE GREAT PEOPLE IN U.S. BECAUSE THEY HEPLING THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY FORGET THEIR PAYDED LOAN TO PAY. DUE TO THIER CALLS WE CAN COME OUT FROM LEGAL CONCEQUENCE...AND ONE MORE THING KEEP DOING THIS GOOD JOB AND ONE OF YOUR AGENT MR SMITH IS ONE OF THE BEST AGENT..GOD BLESS HIM..

I dont understand that why some of us are making a great mistake in recognizing them. They are not as bad as we think.They are F.C.D people i.e. Financial Crime Division working to protect bank & bank assests from the defaulters. It is our moral duty to pay back whatever we have taken from our country AMERICA!GREAT AMERICA!. I hope u all will listen to me!!!!

i jst got a call from this number and first of all i was taking this vry lightlty but after tht they gave me such information (personal) tht i was shocked and than i got to know tht this call is really vry serious...
i suggest u to take care of the amounnt to get out of this legal mess. i wud lik to THANK those guys who gave me a vry genuine way to get of it. THANKS... GOD BLESS YOU ALL...

I got a call just a few minutes ago. He said his name was Adam Smith. Could not hardly understand the accent. told me to call right away or I would regret it. The number that showed up, was different from the number to call back on.

See http://www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam.cfm

These guys are not legit. Do NOT give them any information.

I just got a call too from a "Mary Brown" from United Federal Bureau and it took me 3 times listening to the voice message before I could understand her.  How do we stop these calls?  Are they for real?

Tom Henry called, matter of extreme emergency for me to call back immediately.  Accent was so bad I had a hard time understanding the number.  I think they are collecting for a payday loan company but they will never give details, only threats.  They also keep changing their phone number every few weeks.  Extremely rude and hostile.

I had call from united fedral bureo.They were working with me & they allowed  me to take care the legal matter outside the court.I really appricate the work which they r doing & trying to help us so guys if u had a call regarding this department plz take care of that O.O.C.R Restitution.We can be away from this legal matter.

I agree. I got the same call, but it was a woman named Mary Brown and she could barely speak English. These people are getting more and more ridiculous.

I got a call from this number at my office..  I never spoke with him, but the funny part to the guys in the office was he said he was from the Federal Investigation Unit and his name was Shawn Wilson, but he could barely speak English...  I am sure it is a bill collector of some sort but why do they have to try and sound like they are police, just be real with me and I will talk to you!! sheeshhhh