They are a collection agency from India. They are trying to collect on a debt by sacring you into thinking you can go to jail for a civil matter.

This scam happened to me today. LOL She said her name was Sandy Marshall (indian accent) and that an officer named Randy Smith was filing a fraud case against me. I said really, I don't know anything about that. I said to her what is her name, she gave it. What number you calling from, she gave me 714-741-5704 which IS the Garden Grove Police department. That number is a REAL Police Department. She said to call Randy at 646-713-2945. I tried calling it blocked but it wouldn't let me so I called the police number and went to the Investigation department. We both figured it out that it was a scam. The officer did call the number of Randy and they put him on hold and kept transferring him and putting him on hold. I did call "Randy" from my house number since they already knew it and some Indian duded answered. I gave HIM a piece of my mind and he is like nah nah nah. smh. I spoke with the FBI and they said complaints need to be given to the FED TRADE COMMISSION (they handle phone scams). The number is: 877-382-4357. Call this # and make the complaints. God willing they will get these punks. :))))

Same exact thing; Indian woman stating she's from the Washington State PD and that there's fraud against me; all it said on caller id was emergency number..  Completely miss pronounced my name.  She stated that there's fraud against me and if I'd heard of Randy Smith.  When I said no, she was like, "oh my god, you haven't heard from him?"  I said no and hung up.  She called back leaving a vm stating that I'd be arrested on Friday Dec 14th and good luck because I'd be behind bars, and I hope you like being behind bars. The number was different, but same area code: 410.397.0004.

Why isn't anything being done against these people?  Its completely illegal and BS.

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

I just received a call that came up on my caller ID as 911. I didn't answer it and the voice-mail stated that Deputy Luke Johnson was calling from the Florida State Police Department ( with a very very thick Indian,  accent) and that he was requesting an arrest warrant be issued for me and the "cops" were going to come to my place of work and arrest me and that the issuing party was Jason Washington and that I needed to call 410-397-0004 right away or else they were going to come and arrest me but he did not state what the charges were and as a matter of fact the same 911 number is calling me now 8 minutes later and I am not answering it. This voice-mail states the exact same message as he left minutes ago.

same monkeye calling from 410-384-7748. They claim if I do not call some Jack Lawson  deputy John Murphy from the Fla. state police are going to issue a warrant for my arrest. Well bring it on you stupid sand monkey!!!!!!

I got that call yesterday, he said he was Deputy Murphy from NC State police and today he called my work!
I called the number and was about to cuss his a** when he hung up. I've taken loans but paid them all back. These idiots make me sick.

I RECEIVED 2 SEPERATE CALLS FROM 410-834-2877 OTH WERE FROM THE SAME WOMEN WHO SPOKE VERY POOR ENGLISH ONE SAYING SHE WAS FROM ONE STATE THE OTHER CALL FROM ANOTHER STATE AND THAT I WOULD BE PICKED UP AND ARERSSTED FRO CHECK FRAUD CHARGES IF I DIDN'T TURN MYSELF INTO AN ADDRESS IN OCEAN CITY AND THE OTHER IN FT LAUDERDALE.  WHAT THE HELL IS THIS CRAP?  I HAVEN'T WRITEN A CHECK IN YEARS AND NONE HAVE BOUNCED.  EVERYONE WATCH OUT!!

I just received a call from a guy said his name was deputy luke johnson w state of tx police and I had until 6pm to make a payment of 419.00 or I would be arrested and gave me the number 5126462797 to ask to speak to jason washington he is filing charges .then we  called blocked and exposed him he got upset and started saying f*** me im a moth******er and I will f*** u in your a**..lol this is a mess and I am contacting the BBB!

I just received a call from a guy said his name was deputy luke johnson w state of tx police and I had until 6pmm to make a payment pf 419.00 or I would be arrested and gave me the number 5136462797 to ask to speak to jason washington he is filing charges .then we  called blpcked and exposed hom he gpt upset and started saying f*** me im a moth******er and I will f*** u in your a**..lol this is a mess and I am contacting the BBB

Got a call today on my cell phone as an emergency number. So of course I freaked out. This woman tries to talk like we are friends and she claims she has no idea why there is a warrant out for my arrest but I had to call the number 410-834-2877. She then called me at my job saying I hung up. DUH  I called the number and cussed the non speaking english guy out and told him come and get me you sorry SOB I am waiting.

I just recieved a call that came up 911. The lady that spoke bad english left me a voicemail saying the would arrest me for fraud charges. For me to call 410-834-2877, and speak to a Officer Randy Smith about this matter or they would process the non bondable warrent and i would be locked up behind bars. She said she was with the Texas State police. In Texas they are The Texas Department of Publice Safety. Icalled back and the same lady answered and transfered me to Officer Randy Smith. He first told me it was over a Payday loan with cash net usa. He then told me that my money was of no importance to him that the company wanted me locked up. Then his sory changed when I told him if I owed the bill I would pay. He then wanted me to give him a card number, and for me to fax him a letter stating that i arthorised them to depit my card for 2 seperate payments. He also wanted a copy of my Texas Drivers license. He also ask if I had ever been arrested before. Then he said he wanted me to send the payment through western union or walmart money pac. He said he was with the federal goverment in Maryland. I think I will Get in touch of a old high school friend of mine that is a Texas Ranger and give him all this info.

I agree, I'm going thru it as I type. They connecting there numbers to local police station now acting as deputy's . Who do we complain too. I'm getting the same calls from a Randy Smith with a heavy Indian accent

What can be done about this? This is insane. I just got a call from "911" emergency on my phone. Scared me out of mind. This is crazy!!!!!!!!

I received a call on my cellphone and a lady with India accent left me a message saying she is Chief Deputy Marshall calling from the California State Police Department. She had fraud complaints on my name. I needed to call her supervisor Raymond Smith. She has the address of my home, place of work and is going to send an investigator out to arrest me. She wished me the best of luck. The number came in as a missed call from 1-911.

I have received the same phone call that everyone else is. When I asked him what and who was this involing he could not answer. I asked not to call my job anymore and hung up. From reading all the comments they are using such common american names

Received a call 911-unknown number on my caller id--no msg--they  called several times -did not answer! glad i didn't --had a similar  incident last yr-  some guy threatened  to  have me arrested---and i told him  well i  guess i  will have  to tell my  husband-- CHIEF OF POLICE- here  that  i am to be arrested---lol--then  no  calls for a yr--now  they are starting again  under different  number--911!  these ppl need to  go to  jail!

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=1

I got a call from a man cleaning he was from a police department in Maryland, he told me that if I did not contact this guy named Edward Jones that I would be charged with a misdemeanor and or be arrested. apparently I took out a loan that I had no idea about and now I apparently over 1000 dollars please this is such a scam. because it was me and I'm only 24 I panicked I have 3 kids and don't want to go to jail so I called the guy and like an idiot I gave him my card number and my money, I called the right away and cancelled my card and ordered a new 1 but now this b*****d is refusing to give me my money back I am so pissed.

Also he told me that if I didn't pay I would be arrested and the he would be downloading the affidavit information for the Police Department. He said give me the $400 you said you have and then I will give you an extension on the $865, I said no, I will do it all at one time. He didn't and isn't getting any money from me.

I received a call from Jack Dawson today telling me I owed $1,265.00, so I told him all I had right now was $400. I was scared and was trying to get the money together and then thought wait, if he really works for the Alabama State Police how come I hear so many people in the back ground saying the same thing. So he called back and said I am waiting on you to call me back and said you are wasting my time, I said I am working on it, I said I will have to call you back he said if you don't call back in 10 minutes I am not going to work with you any longer, I said OK. So I called the Local Police Department here in Birmingham and Local FBI office here in Birmingham and they said no this is definitely a SCAM. Needless to say I never called him back. So he has been calling me again. Funny thing is he had my SS# he read it to me, I didn't give it to him. That is really scary. The FBI office said they are actually calling from overseas and that the way they are calling it is using number from the US. The last time he called me it was from a local number here where I live.
When I asked Jack Dawson's badge # he gave me 1691, he said he worked for the Alabama State Police, I said you work for the Police Department, which department, he said no I work for the Federal Credit Department. I said and they have officers, he then sai  i work for the United States Government.

Also think about Jack Dawson was Leonardo DiCaprio's name in Titanic.

I JUST RECEIVED A CALL FROM LUKE JOHNSON OF THE FLORIDA STATE POLICE DEPARTMENT
SAYING I OWE $1,879 FOR A LOAN I GOT IN 2011 AND CHARGES WAS GOING TO BE FILED AGAINST ME BY A JASON WASHINGTON WHOM IS A FEDERAL AGENT UNLESS I PAID THE SUM TOTAL BY CREDIT CARD IMMEDIATELY. I LAUGHED HA..HA..HA...HA........

Caller id 911, warrant for my arrest by California State Police of which she (hardly spoke English) was a member.  
HO HUM....there is no California State Police and if we did they sure wouldn't have a Baltimore phone number.
Dont worry people they are scammers and get there info off the internet.

I received a call from Raymond Collins on August 17, 2012 who had an Indian accent, stating there was a warrent out for my name and social security number, he also gave me a ID number of 8637NZ2012 and had a young lady with an Indian accent call first giving me his name and number.  Then today I received a call from a DC number 2022807039 stating they would be coming to my job on Tuesday, August 21, 2012 to arrest me.  The attorney's name was Steven Johnson.  I called the number back and got a recording by someone with an Indian accent but no company name.  I also received a call last week from the 2022807039 number stating if I did not pay I would be arrested.  I never received any information about the amount of money I owed or paperwork of an arrest.  They were rude and would not allow me to explain that I had not received anything in writing.  Also when I asked Steven Johnson for his bar number he would not give it to me stating it would be included in the paperwork that I never received.  Somthing needs to be done about this type of harressment.  Also they are using the DC police department in this scram.

Young foreign lady indicated that she was calling for a Randy Smith from the Federal Crime Department
that my name was being investigated.   The number that showed up on the caller ID was 911.  Something
seriously needs to be done about this.  These indiviuals are scaring people to death.

I had a voicemail from 911, so I listened to it and it was John Murphy from the Pennsylvania State Police telling me I was going to be arrested, for what, he didn't say but that there is a charge on my name and social security number.  I needed to call Jack Dawson back at 410-834-2877.  Needless to say, I'm not calling anyone back.

I received a call from 911, but missed it because my phone was on silent.  Saw I had a voicemail so I listened to it.  Apparently it was John Murphy from the Pennsylvania State Police saying I was going to be arrested, but didn't say for what.  Supposedly there are charges against my name and social security number.  I am to call Jack Dawson back at 410-834-2877

Received a call from John Smith at my place of employment. He told my manager there is a criminal investigation going on and I need to contact them as soon as possible. Of course when I called back there was not a message saying what company they are with - just to leave a message. I refuse to leave my number on any website because I did that once and was receiving up to 30 calls per day from all kinds of out of state numbers so the only thing I can think of is I posted my resume on a job board where all my personal info cannot be seen but I guess people can still see where I work so now they are trying to scam me at my job!

Received this same number (+911) at work. He had  an Indian accent. He stated that his name was Deputy John Murphy from the Massachusetts State Police. He stated that there is a law suit against my name and my social security#. Then he stated to resolve this issue pending upon me. I (my name) need to contact Mr Jack Dawson at 1-410-834-2877. If not you will be going to prison. Then he uses the word ( GOD) bless you and good luck. I looked it up and here it is.. All these complaints and scam artists. BE ALERT PEOPLE. for these kind of scams....

i recieved a phone call from this number saying i had a charge pending against my name and they were going to issue a warrant for my arrest and that i needed to get a good lawyer and surrender myself when my local department contacted me. Randy Smith was the name of the guy with a indian accent as well. no clue what they are talking about something about a state california bank when i live in nebraska