An Indian guy called telling me that he was a FDC and I had five warrants out on me regarding pay day loan. I have taken them out before but not recently. They said I was going to be arrested.  And they had all my information abd social security information. They wanted $621. Then it went to give me a card number and we can work out a deposit. Then the deposit went from $150-$120 by Friday or I was going to jail.
I think it is a scam b

Just received my phone call from Officer Dawson>> Thanks to the previous posts!! and the fact that I have no connections w/ The Federal Trade Commission>> I WILL NOT BE SCAMMED!!!

jay dawson or jake is a fake

Just got a call from my sister who stated that she and my step mom both received a call from a Robert Wilson with the "Federal Tax Lien Division" saying that I had listed them as a reference (false). Robert also left a voicemail on my office line stating that that there was a pending case against me and to contact them by Friday otherwise it will be forwarded to the local district attorney. I could be wrong but isn't it HIGHLY illegal to impersonate any persons in law force and especially a federal entity? There was no mention of who EXACTLY he was calling on behalf of other than to say "cases have been reported against you".

I know what is on my credit report and have completed certified mailings requesting the truth of any debts therein.

I also contacted the IRS directly and they reported that there is NO such action against me.
REPORT THEM!
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/

Scam .....don't believe it or pay a dollar

I received a message from this number on my cell phone, this man claim to be from the Feferal Trade Commission, he goes by the name of officer Jake Dawson, left a message stating that I have at least 3 allegations against me with my name and social security number, and that I am the main prospect for the these allegations, and I should call them back to resolve this matter, if I did not it would be out out their hands and it is all up to me. I did not call them back because a few months ago I was scam out of $500 dollars and this man sounded like the same people who scammed me before. This is about the second time i got calls from these people with this heavy indian accent trying to scam me out of some more money, since i have been scammed the first time. Don't answer these people they are all scammers.

I to recieved a call from this number from an officer Jake Dawson I knew that it was a scam when he said that there were charges filed against me and that the police would be out to get me and hold me before I go in front of a judge but that He could make it all go away if I agreed to the charges and wired him the 1800.00 to close my case. So I told him that I was going to contact my attorney to see if this was the way to go about it. And that I wasn't paying them anything until I had legal council. He got angry and said that there was no time and that I should be prepared to go to jail. I knew that it was a scam sometimes its just fun messing with these guys. Always remember if it sounds fishy to you go with those gut feelings.

i have received that same call. saying i owed a loan and there were three charges against me. he said if i did'nt take care of this i would go to jail. he also called my place of employment and left a voice mail on my bosses phone so now everyone at work thinks i'm a criminal i reported it to local police and attorney general office and the tade comission. also closed out all accounts. put a fraud alert on credit report

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This man called me several times about. Loan that I never recieved. Then called me the whole afternoon harrassing me telling me he wanted to have sex with me and made all these noises and gestures. He's still calling as I type

I got a text message from my boss at work and he told me that I needed to call this guy named Jack Dawson from the FDC this morning.. I called the guy and he said I have received a complaint on your name & SSN and I was like ok? I asked him what company it was from and he said United Payday Loans or something like that and I said I never heard of that place, he transferred me to his Supervisor after giving me a case #, the "other guy" than explained to me the 3 charges Check fraud and what not and I told him I dont know what your talking about and whats the # to the company so I can straighten this out. He than told me "to shut up and get a lawyer bcuz I am gonna be sued." I than hung up and called the police department, filed a complaint and was told to contact the Attorney General in Texas to file a complaint but first do a search on Google to find a mailing address or something to send them a "Cease to Desist Letter.."
But, I think I will just ignore them unless it gets to a point to where it is ridiculous..

got a call today and he said his name is officer jay dawson and that he was from the federal trade commision i have no intention of calling him back

i have also received a call from the same scammers this time they are impersonating the police saying im going to jail now this is by far the worst scam for one i did call the police and told them even though they cant do anything about it maybe they can warn anyone else who is being harassed  by these people what to do. I deal with these a** holes at work and now my phone they can piss off1

These people thats calling is just trying to get money out of people. Dont ever apply for a loan online and give out your information. They are SCAMS.... They will keep calling you harrasing you everyday until u give them money. They will make up anything. Someone called left voicemails on my phone. Then when I called back they said officer Robert Wilson was in a meeting and he would call me back. I said NO yall need to stop caling me. And the man argued me down and said im goibg to keep calling. As soon as u hang up im going to call right back!!! I told him if they didnt stop calling then I would call the police. He hung up. They havent called so far. But im still waiting to see if they do. I like to curse them out its Fun. Since they think its fun to hsrass people about a loan that doesnt exist and I never recieved...  :)

I got a call from these people to they left like 4 messages on my voicemail saying that it was officer RobeThart Wilson and that me or my attorney needed to contact him necause I have several complaints on my name and social security number. I wish they stop calling me. They have been calling harrasing me for 3weeks. Everyday NON STOP!!!!!!!!!!! I might just change my number. I never recieved a loan in my whole life so why are they callinge??? This is crazy. They just trying to get free money out of people...

I got 2 calls from this number stating they had serious criminal charges pending against my ss#.called them back to see wth was going on and some middle eastern accent guy named officer something said I had taken out a loan and not paid it back.I called the cops and gave them the number,haven't heard s*** yet

I have gotten call from this man by the name Aaron everyday or on my cell phone or my work phone. He claimed to be an officer from Houston TX. When I stated to him that an officer doesn't call your telephone unless you been in so trouble or under investigation, but he never unable to tell me what he was calling me for , so ask me if I wanted to talk to him Chief of police and told him yes and when he return back on the telephone, it was the same guy trying to pretend that he was somebody else. I continue to ask him what was this pretaining and he was never able to tell me, so I immediately started telling him to stop playing on my phone,  and that he stated to me that I will be sued and that I need an attorney and hung up.

I have gotten calls from them about 20 times in the past 2 days and I was fixing to pay them $290.00 and the guy named aaron told me I had to go to a western union or go to walmart and purchase a moneypak card. So I said let me give you a call back in about a hour. So I decided to call the sherriffs department and the officer I spoke to told me to tell them that you done filed a report with the better business bureau and that I know they are scammers and they just hung up. They called me back a hour later and was acting like another guy named fred williams said I was gonna be fined 5,000 and sent to.jail for 10 wi 20 years. Then I said bring it if you.got the balls to and he said I will bring it so I told himbtongo.f*ck.his mo and he hung.up on mem

on august 24th, I too received the same phone call but my guy was Officer Dawsonand, spoke with very heavy  accent and he sounded Indian ..... he threatened me that if I do not call him back "only God will be able to help you" he left on my cell phone..... also accused me of some kindof sevear crime regardiing my SSN# and some other crock.......
truthfully i think these people had to much curry and should bathe more often and please stay out of 7-11 because we can't understand you anyway.....

I just got a call from this number stating that I have 3 federal charges against my acct. One was check fraud. Bc a payloan place couldn't retrieve money from me. He said I will get arrested and the agents will be at my door. I said I am calling my lawyer. His response was "he can't do nothing" then said forget and hung up. I called the number back and his "assistant" some guy says. We have nothing more to say to you. See you in court. I will be reporting them.

They just called me saying that they were with the government and that they had a serious complaint against my name and SS#. I was worried at first and then started to think scam. The first guy I talked to was named "Robert Willson" and passed me over to his head officer that would give me the details on my complaint. I was placed on a long silent hold. A man now going by Officer Jack Gates gets on the phone and is trying to make it all seem legit and starts to tell me I am going to go to court with a online payday loan service for fraudulent charges!? Now I'm a little freaked out and still thinking scam, well I ask the b*****d if you have all my info right there and the case aginst me, what is my SS#. He then raddled off my number? Wtf!? I told him that I had not gotten a payday loan and never had the bank he claimed I had and that he had the wrong SS. He became rude and then settled down again, asking for only $90 today to put a hold on the case till next Friday.. I told him once again that I have no money to give him and he picked the wrong person, he then says okay so Mr Thomas I can expect a call back from you by noon.. No you can go f@ck yourself! SCAM

I received a call at 630 am on a Tuesday morning!  He had all my information (SS# and Bank Acct) saying I owed money and if I didn't clear it up he would take me to court.  A lady with a thick accent called first and then transferred me to a supervisor named Jack.  He also had a thick accent.  I did not give any info back to him just that I would have my lawyer contact him.

did you get a call from 409-5397-464 ? is a scam !!! i had a man with a heavy indian accent calling ,and sayed i was borrower from pay day loan 3000.00 online  02/2012, i was asked him who the .....  are you? i had owe you not things .and he say i will be ready for  go to the court  .i was told indian man ,iam wating .and don't call me again not too good ! what can we do with the pepple like that bad.too bads !

It's a scam! They are NOT from the FTC! AT ALL.
I've been having fun with them telling them that I know who they are and that we are sending the REAL FTC to come get them....they don't think that is too funny and get VERY nasty and curse me out. Real professional. But what do you expect lol
Do not give them any of your info-if you can, block the number on your phone or with your service provider.

I have been getting call from this number 409-539-7464 threating to sue me if I do not call them back the person that keeps call is Robert Wilson claim to be from Federal & Troy Commison that is I don't call him back they will take legal action against me, that there has been and afidavit filed on my name and SS#

That.is.scary.:-(

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

these fools have called my cell and work four times just this morning...claiming to be from the FTC....yeah right.

Same man calls me I tell him I am not supporting his terrorist act and he hangs u

Was contacted by this Robert Wilson I called the ftc and filed a complaint was told to not have any contact  don't answer the call there is a debt scam going around and was told to write the numbers down and report them to ftc each time