347-637-5227
NY, US
 | Brooks 2012-08-29 23:04:04 Unknown |
Identify yourself or prepared to be sued you dirtbag piece of crap. You and your company are soulless scum. Get your foreign A** out of our lives. PLEASE come see me so I can give you a 230 grain copper injection you cowardly scum sucking thief. Yeah, you work for the "Justice Department".....and my grand daughter is the real Spiderman. Come and get me you wuss!!
| Anon 2012-08-15 01:09:56 Unknown |
Ease up on the caps there, skippy.
| BON BON 2012-08-15 00:45:00 Unknown |
ROSALIND THESE PEOPLES ARE SCAM THEY CALL SAME THING ABOUT MY SOCIAL SECURITY AND THEY KNOW MY WHOLE NUMBER SOCIAL SECURITY I REPORTED TO MY CREDIT REPORT, MY BANK, IRS, SOCIAL SECURITY OFFICE, I WENT TO MY POLICE STATION AND REPORTED TO THEM TOO. AND REPORTED TO FTC (FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION), THESE PEOPLES HAVE A VERY THICK ACCENT THEY ARE FROM INDIA. THEY ARE THIEF AND SCUMBAG TRY TO STEAL INNOCENT PEOPLES WHO WORK SO HARD FOR THEIR MONEY. THEY WERE SAY SOMETHING ABOUT MY SOCIAL SECURITY TOO. BUT I COULDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY SAYING CAUSE THEIR ENGLISH IS SOO POORLY SPOKE.
| dawn cropco 2012-08-13 22:55:07 Unknown |
says his name is jack.....and a law suit is being filed agianst my name
| DAWN CROPCO 2012-08-13 22:51:08 Unknown |
CLAIMS HE IS FROM A LAW FIRM AND NEEDS MONEY
| RED 2012-08-13 15:35:15 Unknown |
Total scumbags. Never took a payday loan never will. They claim that there is a pending legal action against the person which is comical. I inturn hung up on them. They had the balls to call back numerious times. Inturn I harassed them back. I told them that I know they are full of s*** at that point they try to connect you to a supervisor which is ment to intimate you which is yet another joke. I told them to contact my lawyer at that point they had had enough of me and I have not heard back since...
| Susan 2012-08-10 17:50:00 Debt Collector |
These people are ridiculous. They keep calling my cell and my office phone. I told the guy I have an attorney and he is asking for the name and number and did not want to give me any information. I know this is a scam. I don't owe any company by the name they have given. If this is a case pertains to me then I have right to know. Let them call me again. Of course the man is name "Officer Scott" he is a man with a heavy Indian accent. Don't believe these people. If this was a real cases you would get formal papers in the mail. My sister is an attorney and these people are just a scam
| alicia 2012-08-09 17:29:01 Debt Collector |
Its a big scam heavily. Indian accent is the big tip to them being fake this Guy he calls hos self Frank Wilson that's. The most American name & I know for a fact its not your name buddy then I asked for his addresse he couldn't come up with 1 fast enough today he left me a pretty pissed off message f$#* of scamers
| ksr 2012-08-09 02:55:44 Unknown |
I have been receiving so many of these calls now-it's almost comical...I asked the one guy who stated-I Officer of the Law-really????so what's your badge number?....ummmmmm,ahhhhh,ummm...then you could hear him asking other jugheads in the background "what is bage number?" then he said-1234-yeah like I'm going to believe that...it's also fun to ask them questions that make them deviate from their scripts....if I can't get them to stop I'm at least going to screw with their heads!
| Alfalfa 2012-08-01 13:01:16 Unknown |
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
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
| Carol Mariani 2012-08-01 12:58:53 Debt Collector |
They have been harrassing one of the people in my office. We do not let her get the phone call any longer we just hang up on them now.
| 7564 2012-07-31 16:20:39 Unknown |
Thanks. They called me at my work desk and it is scam. They stated I took a loan out from some payday company and I'm being suied. The guy could not tell me laon amount are anything, He eventually got mad and hung up the phone on me..
| Lar 2012-07-30 14:56:13 Unknown |
This is a scam. They said I got a cash advance and want 480 by Fri. o
r I will be arrested. Not true!
I never even applied for a cash advance!
r I will be arrested. Not true!
I never even applied for a cash advance!
| Amber 2011-12-16 17:49:19 Unknown |
They are a scam
| dione 2011-12-06 16:41:19 Unknown |
an individual by the name of officer jason parker stated that i have ignored attempts to reach me by both written and phone communication.He had very heavy indian-sounding accent.he said that i failed to make payments on some type of loan and thata legal complaint has been filed against my ssn# and that he needed to hear from a lawyer by the end of today gave me a case# and got very defensive when i said my boyfriend is a police officer and my sister is a lawyer and refused to let me speak to a superior or commanding officer.i took the case # to get this creep off the phone
| SEE S*** 2011-12-06 00:33:54 Unknown |
THIS M------F------- CALLS ME AGIAN HE WILL NOT GET ME HE WILL GET MY LAWYER,,, AND THAT MY FREIND WILL NOT BE PRETTY,,,, F----- OFF YOU IDIOT
| Sad but True 2011-12-01 19:09:31 Unknown |
This is an offshore payday loan debt collection extortion scam that has been going on for at least five years. The FBI is aware of it but is unable to go after those involved due to lack of money and manpower. I looked back and found some old information which may prove to be helpful:
They obtained your information through Teletrack:
Kudos to "Sam" for giving the most intelligent and informative posts on this scam. READ, Bookmark and use as needed:
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-631-456-4041/2
http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/paydayloanscam_120710
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-951-489-0227
They obtained your information through Teletrack:
Kudos to "Sam" for giving the most intelligent and informative posts on this scam. READ, Bookmark and use as needed:
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-631-456-4041/2
http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/paydayloanscam_120710
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-951-489-0227
| Rosalind 2011-12-01 19:03:07 Unknown |
They say they are a Financial Investigation Company. They talk about a lawsuit being filed against my social Security. I never heard of that before.
| Rosalind 2011-12-01 18:58:45 Unknown |
Who is this and who do you work for?
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