412-360-8427
PA, US
Bill White
Bill White
2011-06-06 20:48:28
Unknown
lAKITA CALL ME FROM THIS #
Andrea
Andrea
2011-06-06 20:48:28
Unknown
The number called my cell, left no message.
zane
zane
2010-10-27 19:18:14
Unknown
This is all a scam - Don't respond at all
lori
lori
2010-10-27 05:18:20
Unknown
I got one too, except he knew my social security #, an old bank account and my email address, never did ask for me to resolve the matter just read to me I was being sued and would lose my job, I searched the phone number and it is a legitimate number in new york working for a cash partners of america, I havent' took one out over the internet, ugh so aggravating
amanda
amanda
2009-10-09 05:46:53
Unknown
Shawn Michael(s)?!  Another wwe wrestler lol.  He'd kick this guys a** too lol
BBW Gurl
BBW Gurl
2009-10-08 21:32:42
Telemarketer
I received a call today from a guy with a very heavy indian accent by the name of Shawn Michael stating a lawsuit was going to be filed against me for fraud on an internet loan. I have no idea what this was was talking about. I seen something about this scam a few weeks ago on Dateline NBC.
telly
telly
2009-10-05 22:29:53
Unknown
I got a call today from officer so and so saying that i needed to call back because of fraudulent activity using my social security number. I called back and gave the representative my phone number. He confirmed my name, address and email address and advised I was being sued by payday loan online and advised that the company is midland marketing. i told him i hadn't received a payday loan. He asked have you ever received a payday loan in your life and I said yes, when I was about 20...7 years ago and that was paid, not to mention it wasn't a payday loan that I applied for online. He said he will look into it and call me back.
jean
jean
2009-10-02 16:16:43
Debt Collector
They are calling me over a payday loan I never took out, name was Roger Johnson,today's caller was peter davis, sounded like the same guy. Threatened me with an affadavit and only God can help me is I don't pay him.
Alfalfa
Alfalfa
2009-09-30 17:55:23
Debt Collector
This scam has been going on for well over a year, now and has been recognized as such by the BBB:

Chicago, IL ? August 5, 2009 ? The Better Business Bureau is issuing an alert about phony debt collectors that are calling consumers nationwide and claiming that they have defaulted on a payday loan and will be arrested if they don?t pay immediately. Claiming to be lawyers, the scammers say they are with the ?Financial Accountability Association? or the ?Federal Legislation of Unsecured Loans? and are equipped with a disconcerting amount of personal information about their potential victims.

?Because the scammers have so much information about potential victims, the BBB is concerned that this may be the result of a data breach,? said Steve J. Bernas, president & CEO of the Better Business Bureau serving Chicago and Northern Illinois. ?Thousands of people may have had their personal information compromised, and given the scammers? tactics, it appears that those who have previously used payday loan services could be particularly at risk.?

According to reports received by the BBB and posted online, the scammers accuse the victim of defaulting on a payday loan and claim they are being sued. The phony debt collector threatens that, if the victim doesn?t pay as much as $1,000 immediately via wire or by providing bank account or credit card numbers, he or she will be arrested and extradited to California within the hour to stand trial. The scammers often may have the victim?s Social Security, old bank account numbers or driver?s license numbers as well as home addresses, employer information and even the names of personal friends and professional references.

The BBB offers the following advice to consumers if they receive a suspicious telephone call about an outstanding debt:
* Ask the debt collector to provide official documentation in writing which substantiates the debt.
* Do not provide or confirm any bank account, credit card or other personal information over the phone until you have confirmed the legitimacy of the call.
* Review recent copies of your credit reports to ensure that the alleged debt is not affecting your credit. Consumers can do this for free once every 12 months, and can find more information here: http://www.ftc.gov/freereports
* Under the Federal Trade Commission's Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, debt collectors may not harass, oppress, or abuse any person while attempting to collect a debt.
* A debtor may be contacted between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. only and can be contacted at work unless instructed not to.
* File a complaint with the FTC online if the caller is abusive, uses threats or otherwise violates federal telemarketing laws.
* File a complaint with BBB online at www.bbb.org if you believe a debt collector is trying to scam you.

http://www.thinkglink.com/article/2009/08/06/ ... eading-says-bbb

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-618-5897

This is a very active group of scammers, many of whom are calling from India (and probably other countries) and are in cahoots with a group of American pay day loan scammers. They attempt to extort money from consumers with a myriad of false and illegal threats, and alternately pose as debt collectors, federal and state law enforcement officers, lawyers and bankers. Their trademark is to use meaningless legalese gobblygook phrases like "We are downloading warrants against you" or "We are filing an affidavit against you." Another trademark phrase is to threaten the consumer with something like this ridiculous phrase: "If you don't pay then only God can help you."

Typical of many financial scams of this variety, they usually demand payment via Western Union or MoneyGram or credit card. They use any number of phony names such as US National Bank, Federal Investigation Bureau, US Legal Investigation Bureau, Hopkins Law Office, United Legal Processing, Morgan Associates, United Pay Services, National Processing, White Collar Crime Unit and many more.  These criminals also use many phone numbers from many area codes; they're probably using caller-id spoofing software and/or VoIP to disguise their real location.

The main thing to remember is that anytime someone calls you demanding money to prevent your arrest, or demanding your lawyer's name so they can sue you, it is ALWAYS a scam. No debt collector (let alone criminals posing as debt collectors) has the authority to have anyone arrested for anything. (And it's illegal to them to threaten such a thing.) And since these foreign dirtbags routinely impersonate law enforcement, it's also important to remember that American law enforcement officers aren't in the business of debt collection.  (Debt is a civil, not a criminal, matter.)

The bottom line is, these are criminals trying to steal your money.

A consumer posting a complaint about these same scammers at http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-718-831-7157 notes that 718-831-7157 is associated with an India-based "outsourcing" telephone bank.  Though a reverse search on WhitePages.com shows that 718-831-7157 is an unlisted land line in New York City, information on Debtbuyers.Com shows that that number is used by India-based Intellisourze. (Source: http://www.debtbuyers.com/debtbuyers.asp ) My guess is that it's a VoIP phone number.

This is another piece of the puzzle that fits in perfectly with other information about this scam. There are some reports on 800Notes that have suggested that the crooks behind this offshore scam are also the crooks behind the notorious Bass/Ellis Crosby & Assoc./States Predisposition scams in Florida and Georgia. The interesting thing is that the number of complaints on here about the US National Bank/US Legal Investigation/Federal Investigation scam skyrocketed *after* April 7, 2008 when Florida obtained a $1.3 million judgment against Ted Ellis Crosby, shutdown his operations and barred him from ever conducting debt collections in Florida (Read http://myfloridalegal.com/newsrel.nsf/newsrel ... 5257424005858A6 ) There's certainly a good chance that the crooks placing these calls from India are doing so on behalf of the American crooks behind the Crosby/Bass/States Predisposition scams.

Here's the contact information for the phone bank in India:

IntellisOurzE BPO
701, Sapphier, Nr. Cargo Motors,
C.G. Road Navrangpura,
Ahmedabad - 9. (Guj.) INDIA.
E-Mail: info@intellisourze.com
Website: www.intellisourze.com

A check on the domain name "intellisourze.com" shows that the website and name registration was created on May 8, just one month *after* the Crosby scams were shut down in Florida:

Domain Name: INTELLISOURZE.COM
Registrant:  Pragra Infratech Pvt. Limited.
Email:  ankur.ranpariya@pragra.com  
908, Aksaht Tower, Nr. ICICI Bank
Opp. Rajpath Club, S.G. Highway
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India 380054
Tel. +91.7926871353
Creation Date: 08-May-2008
Expiration Date: 08-May-2009
Domain servers in listed order: ns5.znetindia.com ns4.znetindia.com
(Source: http://whois.domaintools.com/intellisourze.com )

Though scam calls from these crooks have been going on long before May 8, the frequency of complaints about these calls increased considerably after Crosby was shut down in early April.

This is conjecture, but appearances suggest that Crosby and company were originally running a two-pronged payday loan scam operation -- with some calls being made from Jacksonville, Florida and other calls being made from a phone bank in India (and possibly other countries); then, after the Florida Attorney General shut down the Crosby scams in Florida, the Crosby crooks transferred most of their scam efforts to the India phone bank.

If you are targeted by these criminals, be sure to report them to all the following federal and state law enforcement agencies (most of which you can do online or over the phone):

1) Alert the FBI at https://tips.fbi.gov  Be sure to tell the FBI that you are being targeted by extortionists over the phone. And if the crooks claim to be law enforcement, lawyers, officers of the court or bankers, or if they threatened you with arrest, be sure to include that information in your report.

2) File a complaint online with The Federal Trade Commission at https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en

3) File a complaint with your local police. Most police departments will take a report over the phone.  Be sure to tell them that you're being targeted by an extortionist and give them all the details.

4) The caller placed the call under a Texas area code. Even though the caller ID was probably spoofed or they're using VoIP technology to hide the fact that they're really calling from overseas, you should also file a complaint with the Texas Attorney General at http://www.oag.state.tx.us/consumer/complain.shtml

5) File a complaint your state's attorney general, the contact information for whom is at www.naag.org

6) The U.S. Secret Service is responsible for protecting the country's financial infrastructure and payment systems from international and domestic threats. Call or write your local Secret Service field office to alert them to the details of this attempted extortion. The addresses and phone numbers for the local Secret Service field offices are listed at http://www.secretservice.gov/field_offices.shtml or in your phone book.

If these crooks call back, promise them nothing, pay them nothing and tell them nothing other than that you know they're a scam and that you've reported them to law enforcement. (And be sure to report them to all the agencies above each time they call you.)

By the way, here's just a small sample of numbers used by this particular group of scammers. Read the reports and you'll see the same pattern time and again -- phony organization names, thick foreign accents, and oddly worded threats that are so melodramatic and ridiculous that it's laughable:

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-925-262-1327
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-678-954-6346
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-341-4004
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-856-831-0640
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-949-743-1140
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-410-505-8128
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-917-464-2534
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-210-858-6602
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-775-2121
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-949-743-1156
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-245-1402
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-245-0922
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-723-5572
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-2863
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-718-831-7157
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-2857
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-858-244-0444
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-954-678-9724
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-610-571-3252
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-310-909-8245

...and, many, MANY more.
Amanda
Amanda
2009-09-30 17:27:34
Debt Collector
I have been recieving the same kinds of calls, calling my work being rude to my receptionist,Not giving me any information, using different numbers, different names like, Ryan Wilson, Ryan White, officer Roger Johnson and officer Eric Johnson.  Telling me 2 days ago I had 2 days to contact him or legal action would begin.. Saying God Bless you have a good day.  I have only spoke to him twice. Then just voice messages..My husband even talked to hime.  The east india accent didn't fool him.  This man told my husband he would have my husband arrested also.
amanda
amanda
2009-09-30 15:50:17
Unknown
Same amanda as above.  It's getting weirder now.  I got a cal again today and answered it.  It was a "Roger Johnson".  He put me through to his "chief" who, ironically, sounded exactly the same.  I could also hear other conversations so it was obviously a call center.  Anyway, he read me off the usual spill but did not give an amount.  He said the company I owed to was Cash Advance.  Seriously.  I swear that's what he said.  He asked me what I intend to do about it.  Not rudely this time though.  I said i don't believe I owe this debt and have never received any proof from "Roger Johnson", "Mark Wilson", "Officer Johnson" (some of the alias' they have used before) and that I could give him my attorney's phone number.  He said ok and took down my dad's number (supposedly).  He then asked me if I am a student (which I am at Oklahoma State University) and what I am studying.  Totally off subject.  I told him marketing and asked what that has to do with anything.  I swear he went on and on about how is daughter (i think that's what he said) is studying marketing in India!  But he never said more than what she's supposedly studying and where.  I kept asking what this had to do with anything and he very politely said he just wanted me to know that he has a daughter studying marketing in India.  This is definitely a new trick!  He never said anything about how much I supposedly owe or what state I am being sued in.  The conversation actually ended politely with him saying "Good luck with your studies and future endeavors.  I will be calling your father".  This definitely a new twist.  I bet he was googling my dad's name and phone number during the daughter conversation (he seemed a little distant during some of it) and realized I was telling the truth.  I bet he doesn't call dad.  On second thought, I DARE HIM TO CALL MY ATTORNEY/FATHER!  I have been keeping dad up on these and he'll not only reem this guy's a** but try everything to actually get some real information so maybe could do something about it.
Rachie
Rachie
2009-09-23 19:51:53
Unknown
I got a call from this Guy called himself officer something.... (thats a new I have gotten alot of these calls and I did get them to stop calling at on point but now they are calling back) Anyways I just called them back and demanded that he remove my name from his scam list! Then he asked me why don't I payback the money I owe? and I said what money and whats the name of the company? They won't give you a name at all! the he said something I didn't understand (cause I was mad, and doesn't speak english well) but I did hear him call me a bloody A**hole the tell me he wants to kiss me and then make 2 kiss sounds at me! what goverment anything would let people talk like that! not mention if someone did file a suit on me I think I would get some kind of paperwork! I want to file a report on these people but I don't know how?
amanda
amanda
2009-09-22 22:23:56
Unknown
they called again today, but i didn't have my phone with me so there was i didn't answer.  No message was left.
pflegh
pflegh
2009-09-22 18:17:20
Debt Collector
I got a voicemail this morning as my reception is bad in the area im currently living in and a guy with a heavy indian accent reported that im being accused of fraud by the law investigation dept and that i must return his call immediately or they will assume that i have run from them and will take legal action!!
first of all, i had to listen to this message multiple times to even get the whole message as i could barely understand the guy.
second, i havent done any type of fraud, so i have no idea why he would be calling to do anything.

from reading the posts above, and my current situation, i believe this is a scam that a few guys are trying to do since they are too lazy to go out and get a job in the US and chose to scam people.
what tools.
amanda
amanda
2009-09-21 20:42:54
Unknown
I am getting so sick of this s***.  I have decided to look up some derogatory words for people from India and call him that if he calls back.  Maybe "sand flea" or "c**** jockey"
amanda
amanda
2009-09-21 20:35:10
Unknown
Also, if you google these words "Financial Accountability Association" and Federal Legislation of Unsecured Loans" you'll find plenty of other posts such as this one.  Basically, they simply changed their names and the names of the supposed companies they work for.  It's EVERYWHERE.
amanda
amanda
2009-09-21 20:32:22
Unknown
I would inform this person that he is violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act and file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission and your Attorney General.  I told the caller that I had filed these and that stopped the calls for a while; not permanently though.    They called a couple weeks later under a different name and number.  Also, every time they do call, I call my AG, who supposedly are following up on this.
Lucy
Lucy
2009-09-21 17:46:12
Debt Collector
Ha!!! I got a call from this guy as well, except he told me he was Officer Jim Williams.  I had a bad connection and couldn't understand him and asked to be transfered to some one state side and he said I was trying to run from this and then said "I want to f*** you, did you understand that?" then he said "your mother is a b***h, did you understand that?"  I hung up on him and called the company he was claiming to represent and they took a report from me and and said not to give them any information then I filed a police report.
amanda
amanda
2009-09-19 23:37:38
Unknown
and, if they call again, I am going to tell them that I changed jobs (which I haven't done; i still work at the same place) and give them the number to my "new job", which will magically be the same number as the one that goes to my dad's firm!  This should be interesting
amanda
amanda
2009-09-17 21:13:20
Unknown
Got a call from this number; they did leave a message saying it was "Officer Neil Johnson" (yeah right), who, for some reason, had a very heavy accent.  He said that I needed to call him back immediately for a legal matter.  I did call back and he said I am being sued in Pennsylvania for defaulting on an internet loan.  I have been getting calls like this for months now but they keep changing numbers and names.  He read off some stupid affidavit but refused to give the name of the loan company or the date I supposedly took it out.  I am not exactly sure why, but he kept mentioning the Oklahoma Attorney General (I live in Oklahoma).
I told him that my father is an attorney and would be handling any kind of legal matters and tried to give him my father's name and number.  He rudely stated that he did not need to talk to my father, my mother, or my grandfather (there were curse words involved) and told me to either pay up or contact my attorney.  I repeated that my father is my attorney.  He then rudely stated "So that gives you the right to break the law?!" (yelling at me at this point).  Then he said just be ready for court Monday and hung up.  I am going to get my dad to call them then see what happens.
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