I was called by a man named Bob Marshal threating to have me put in jail. The reason he said i owed a cash advance and i need to pay 1,200 dollars in payment to a money cash advance witch sounded suspicious to me. I ask for his badge number and he said 1978, so i googled it and found this web site.
It was strange the everyone was hindu or west indian.

Get numerous calls.  they are a collection agency.  They threaten but won't provide any verification.  When I said that I wanted something in writing they refused and said they can not do that.  Any one legitimate will provide you information in writing if you ask.

I was contacted by Paul Smith from Federal Credit Department who is employed by the federal government of the United States of America.  Paul Smith advised me that I was going to be arrested for charges of check fraud, writing bad check and not paying back a payday loan.  He stated that he is representing the company Money Cash Advance which is the parent company to about 1500 companies.  He claimed to have my social security number and other personal information.

My wife was contacted by Officer James Brown, badge number 1978, who is a federal officer for the Federal Credit Department. Said my wife was a primary suspect, they have her SS# and will have her arrested. She called me with this info from her voicemail, so I called Officer Brown. I gave him a hard time, he was threatening to arrest me because I wouldn't answer his questions. He also informed me that I was making an illegal phone call to them by not telling them anything else but my first name. This fool also informed me they were tracing my call and federal officers will be here to arrest me. He did end up hanging up on me after I said "listen James Brown, you can't dance, you can't sing and sure as hell can't f*****g arrest me. I think I will call again tonite- just to give them a taste of their own medicine.

I just got a call AT WORK then on my cell phone also from a so called "Officer Frank Johnson" telling me pretty much the same thing and demanding money by 5:00pm or i would be arrested after that and in jail all weekend. I played along without giving any personal info to him. but he gave me a fax #(206-666-3152) to mail a sheet of paper with my name, Social security, copy of drivers license,and asked me for my credit card or debit number and when i told him i didnt have one(which i do) he called me a liar and said i was lying under oath.lol. I didn't take an oath.IDIOT!! then said since i didnt have either one of those to please go to walmart and get a prepaid card and fax all that information on it with the card number,exp date,ect and it had to be for $300.00. And he got so mad when i told him i couldn't understand him and i asked for an american speaking officer and he said there was none available.lol.
Do these idiots think we are that stupid? And to top if off i asked him what cash advance it was and he said uscashadvance and i have never done a loan through them.

I love how this company says that their federal officers.  Refused to remove my phone number from the system even though the debt is not mine, its for a relative.
Refused to give me an address to contact via mail, refused to give me a company name.
told to me contact the county sheriffs office.  Left me on hold for 15 minutes hoping to get rid of me.
Called my sister and well and hung up on her, called her back just to call her a B**ch
In fact I'm still waiting on hold, they told me to contact the court office, put me on hold to get the info LMAO

A man with a heavy Asian (India) or West Indies accent left a voicemail claiming to be John Jacob Matthews. He said there was a complaint filed against my name and SSN, and I was being investigated in a serious legal matter by a federal dept. He advised me or my attorney under retainer to call back ASAP to this number, ext. 918. He said it was my moral obligation, and if I did not, my SSN would be frozen. This is a scam! First of all the claims and threats being made are illegal. If you have applied online for a payday loan, this network of scammers have obtained your personal details, and are trying to scare/scam people into giving them money for made-up offenses/debts. Don't fall for it!!

I have been receiving these calls on and off for over a year, and each call is funnier than the last.  One of the messages advised that I would be picked up and arrested, and my children would be taken away. Ummm..... nice assumption that I had kids.  I'm sure that line might actually scare some poor person into paying them for a non-existent debt, which is sad.

Report their calls to the FTC and your state Attorney General's office.

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These people are out of controll. I was abel to locate other numbers that they have or do call from reaching back as far as 2008. These people have been linked to 810 area codes and 310 area codes with many more reports than are here. All reports have the same information and conotation. I found instances where they have even threatened to go to a NYPD Officers work and had no idea what the NYPD stood for. I am sure many people have taken payday loans. I have and there is one I am fighting right now but not for the amount described to me by the rep. I really hope more people will file with the FTC using the link I posted. It really is one of the last recources we have to protect our rights. No one has the right to intimidate you or threaten you the way these people have. Based on the descriptions I am wondering if we could not start a class action lawsuite against this company. Also if any rep reveals to you your social security number over the phone please contact your local atterney general immediatly as this is against privacy laws.

Most importantly DO NOT GIVE THESE PEOPLE ANY INFORMATION about where you live or work or how to contact you. If they want to send you something use a FEDEX or UPS store to receive the fax and only the fax. This will keep them from linking you to your employer and creating more trouble.

Took a report from a resident in my town that she was getting calls from this number claiming to be Chief Officer Eric Foster of the Federal Credit Department, employed by the federal government of the United States of America.  Resident reported Eric Foster threatened to have marshals come and arrest her for not paying back the loan she accepted from them.  They claimed to have her social security number and additional personal information.  

Upon speaking with them I found numerous men with accents from either the West Indies, each of whom answered to the name "Eric Foster."  They hung up on me several times and could not provide me with valid contact information.  They became rude and unprofessional immediately and tried to intimidate me.  I advised my resident to ignore any further calls from this number and try to have it blocked by her phone company.

This website has been extremely helpful to me in my investigations.  This is not the 1st one I have come across in my town.

This company tried to bully information out of friends and family about me and how to reach me. I did call and received much of the same unprofessional treatment as described by others. They could not validate any information and wanted my work number and my lawyers number and I gave them nothing. They can not treat anyone whether it is a legitimate debt or not in this fashion. I have filed a complaint with the federal trade commission on thier website at https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/ and I encourage others to do the same.

A man with a heavy Asian (India) accent left a voicemail claiming to be John Jacob Matthews. He said there was a complaint filed against my name and SSN, and I was being investigated in a serious legal matter by a federal dept. He advised me to call back ASAP to this number, ext. 918. He said it was my moral obligation, and if I did not, my SSN would be frozen. This is a scam! First of all the claims and threats being made are illegal. If you have applied online for a payday loan, this network of scammers have obtained your personal details, and are trying to scare/scam people into giving them money for a made-up offense. Don't fall for it!!

I have been receiving these calls on and off for over a year, and each call is funnier than the last.  One of the messages advised that I would be picked up and arrested, and my children would be taken away. Ummm..... nice assumption that I had kids.  I'm sure that line might actually scare some poor person into paying them some non-existent debt, which is sad.

Report their calls to the FTC and your state Attorney General's office.

I just talke to these same DB's and they do have all my info but i know they are a debt collector collecting on an old payday loan that i had from 2005. they say i owe 900ish but it was really like 200. and it is all going to be taken care of in my BK!  but they say that at 11am i am going to be arrested. I played there games in the call until it came time for them to want money from me when i told them no i needed there info for my BK lawyer now i am going to be arrested. Then the guy became very very rude so I told him that I will have my Lawyer contact him and he called my phone over and over and over and left mulitple messages that are long and very funny when I listen to them at one point he says that I will have to face the judge and magisty! so obviously not in NE like he says :)

why can't these guys give you a company name. I'm getting tired of getting these threatning calls. you think that these guys would know how to deal with us Americans. how can we stop these  harassing calls???

I recieved a call as well and they were stating they are officers with a Federal Crime Dept. They say i owe 1500 dollars and that without paying that I would be in jail. They told me today that at 6:30 I will be arrested. If a cop does arrive I am showing them all of this information and the phone number they gave me which is 4027881666. I hope that whoever is doing this will be arrested for the crime that they are commiting by getting peoples information. I even posted this scam alert on facebook for my friends to spread as well so that no one has this happen to them. I just went through this and actually paid about 600 before we finally relized it was a scam..

Yes i recieved a call from them last night about a payday loan that i was suppose to take out with Us cash advance.. The man with a heavy indian accent called cursing me out about this laon then he threaten to have a warrent put out on me today if i dont give them 987.78 yesterday. So I asked him to let me speak to his supervisor and he git upset calling me all kinds of poor black bi****s excuse my laungage. So he told me that he was calling from the federal crime unit and his name was officer jame then he calls back telling me his name was officer marshall and then officer brown..... I then told him to go ahead and then i made a compliant with the ftc after i went to this payday loan site to see who they were just to find out thst if you are not from there state they dont approve you for a payday loan..........

You cant get arrested unless you are first served with papers.....it is not a crime to not pay a loan back, the worst they can do is sue you...these people are stupid...you will receive a certified letter from your state and counties courts...I called the attorney general in the state of ohio about these people and they told me you couldnt go to jail over this..

Differents "officers" call me yesterday and said if I don't pay the amount I own the police will arrest me at next day by 5:30. The person was with indian acent, and when I say "excuse me just listn me, I ready pay same amount the some monts ago" he start screaming and harassing me, they also callme at my work, and tell a lot information of my self to my superviser. This people is using the bad way to recovery money, ALso he use a bad language.

The Better Business Bureau has released many alerts on this scam, google "bbb.org alert phony debt collector"

Same moron just called both mine and my wife's phone....knew it was a scam when he said he was from the Federal Crime Unit and asked for her Social Security Number....Might have been convincing if he didn't leave identical voice mails on our phones and sound like he was calling from New Delhi. Said my wife owed a 250.00 Payday Loan and that if she resolved this issued today, they wouldn't send out an officer to arrest her...lol...can't these people come up with better scams.

this is crazy because the anything just happened to me not even 5 mins. ago and now i am researching the # and company but am having no luck.

Person has a thick indian accent  Name they used was Henry Scott Called a friend trying to get a ahold me saying they were filling lawsuit against me.  Did not give a company name.