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 from unscrupulous websites like the one you may have filled out an application with, 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.

ABC News released an investigative report on this scam 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

Got two calls this month from this # and they call with a heavy accent and ask for someone who doesn't live there and then ask who YOU are. I just told them I don't give info and they better not call back. Scam scam scam!

I received an unwanted call from this number.  Did not answer or return.

Very poor English-has an accent

Just got a call from 347-474-6911 today. Several months before, from a different phone number, I started to receive harassing calls. Each time it was the SAME strongly INDIAN accented voice, stating that he was from a STATE"S ATTORNEY office. Once he said it was an office in Florida. Every time he claimed there were several lawsuits filed against me and I needed to call ASAP. Then he ended the calls with "good luck and God bless". They were all calls from PHONEY PAYDAY LOAN SCAM artists. I never called them back , but did check the numbers in this website and confirmed my gut instinct it was a fraud scheme. I blocked the numbers with my phone company and for a while had no further calls..
*******************HERE THE NEW ATTEMPT THEY MADE *******************
The call today from 347-474-6911 had a new twist. First off, they left a message for MISS _____ in the SAME strongly INDIAN accented voice from the times before. This time he identifies himself as RAJAH. The whole tone of the message was extremely police. He says he is from US PX and needs to urgently speak to me about my presciption. It's a matter of my health. He fumbled on the callback number and had to repeat it twice.
Here's the thing:
I recognized the voice
I have not filled any type of prescription for over three years and then, at the local Walgreens.
Needless to say, I'm also blocking this phone number

Same person who called from -229-299-4399. Call him a Bhenchod (pronounced Ben-Chote) and see what he does lol.

I am getting these calls and at first it is scary , u think jail??? What did do to put myself and family in this situation. Then u really hear what they are saying and realize u didnt do,anything an are being scammed. I am so sick of this I could scream.  I am also getting a call from PDLR group... Sayin they are going to garnish my wages??? Really .. What happened to our rights against these people.  I am so frustrated..   Crazy.. Any advise I am all ears

Once again I am receiving threatining phone calls.......harrassing both me and my family members.  Here is what I have done.  I have filed a formal complaint with the FCC and FTC and the Attorney General's Office in my state.  I am suppose d to have a Pay Day Loan .  Which i do not.  My advice to you is change your password and test questions on your E-mail account.  These low lifes will even hack into your computer.   So stop it before they have a chance.  Also if they know where you Bank and important Personal information ...the Attorney Generals office told me to notify my bank and have my account number changed. And above all NEVER give them any money.  When they call take control of the conversation and (ask for a paper bill sent through the U.S. Postal Service which can be used as proof in a legal case...if ever received turn a copy over to the proper authorities) and get off the phone as soon as you can.  This is what I have learned and I hope this helps someone else without having to through what I have had to go through.

I am constantly getting harassing phone calls from this number and other numbers with the same people just different names, they called me about eight months ago with their threats of arrest, legal actions, etc... etc.... etc... etc.... I almost fell for it until he called me the big "C" word and to suck his, well you know, I had to file a police report and the last time I had heard from them I told them that I have filed a police report with the local police department and they hung up on me until yesterday they started it up again!! I really don't know how to stop them unless changing my phone number, but they are also harassing my family members now!!!!
This has got to stop, does anyone have any advice? These people are the scum of the earth!!!!!!

347 474 6911 (New York) and 713 239 3420 (Texas) are run by the same scam artists out of Hyderabad, India.  I have a common Anglo-American surname which is ALWAYS mispronounced by these shysters.  I have reported 347 474 6911, in writing, to the New York State Attorney General's Office.

These people can barely speak English, other than to say "go f**k yourself" (if you call them, no pun intended, on their harassing calls) and, if if a Voice Mail has been left, "if I don't hear from you or your attorney by Friday (it is always "Friday," whether the call comes in on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Saturday; they must be Good Christians since they don't call on Sundays. (Sarcasm) ], "all I can say is I wish you good luck.

Since Texas is seemingly an anarchist, anything-goes wasteland (sorry, my northeastern biases are coming out here), there is NO form I can fill out to file with the Texas AG Office.

this guy name john marshall keeps calln me everyday sending me threatening message saying that i owe a payday loan for 845 which i never applied for and has been talking money out my checking acct is this true or is it just a scam

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

This number has called one of my phone numbers yesterday at least 10 times, probably more.  He had a very strong accent.  He called saying that a payday loan co. had 3 lawsuits against me and he put another man on the phone.  The 2nd second man,too, was very difficult to understand.  But he said the same thing, a pay day  loan company has 3 lawsuits against me involving a check. He had my email address.  I just told him to send me something through the United States Postal Service and I would look at it.  I started hanging up as he continued talking...

I got repeated calls from this number and states that his name is Joe Adams (very strong accent) with the State Attorney's Office he said that I was going to be arrested but he would not send them $800 he would turn me over to the FBI.  His number came up on my phone as 911 and the number above.  I asked him not to call my job but he still keeps doing it anyway.

they called my job saying the where with the Federal Credit Bureau!!!I knew it had to be a fake person because why would they call my JOB!!!!!

got a phone call from this number.  did not say where they are calling from or why.  said it is a time sensitive matter and also said something about my attorney.  Very foreign and hard to understand.

I got a call from this number from an indian sounding man who was threatining me over a payday loan i never recieved. DO NOT talk to them this is not real!

whose no. is it.