415-259-5026
CA, US
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2014-02-26 20:15:30
Unknown
This is bull sh*t! If you are going to get served, they have to serve the papers to you in person not over the phone. I've received numerous calls from this number (it's a San Rafael, CA phone number) and never answer because I don't answer calls from numbers I don't recognize. I have debt but I'm paying that off. This has got to be a scam and a fraud.

Has anyone who received a call from this number run their credit report to make sure no one has tried to use their personal info?
amanda
amanda
2012-04-05 04:57:16
Debt Collector
They are using a magic jack phone and calling from India thats why it shows up as a CA number. They most likely got your info from a payday loan site, Do NOT give them a dime it is a scam they will try to bully you into sending them money via western union. They call and claim to be with a law firm and will say things like "if you dont send $300 you will be arrested by the next day" or " you commited wire transfer fraud and will lose your job" these people use very simple american names exp John smith, Jessica jones, Brian davis, Nathan Rice. Do not worry they cant do anything to you but they do need to be reported.. I received these calls regarding a co-worker so I started to look into it. I called the number back and a man answered using a american accent but the more questions i asked the more upset he got and the indian accent came out. He refused to give me a address or even a fax number. A few mins later he called my co-worker at work threatning him saying a investigation team was on the way to arrest him. 2 mins later he called me back still claiming to be a lawyer I told him I had reported him to the police and he responded with "your a f**king stupid idiot woman' and hung up on me. You can report these people to  F T C the number is 877-382-4357 they deal with identity theft. Now time is money to these people its just a suggestion but calling these people and taking up thier time is keeping them from calling and scamming others they will become so annoyed with you they will stop calling, it worked for me :) good luck
Vanessa
Vanessa
2012-03-05 23:24:00
Unknown
So glad I seen this. I have been worried and stressing like crazy and trying to figure out what money I supposedly owed. Freakin scammers!
Zelga
Zelga
2012-03-04 03:23:08
Unknown
Received a call from  (415) 259-5026 said I had committed several crimes in Califoria. Explained I never lived in or visited California. They had last 4 digits of my social. They told me to call this number and speak with Mr. Rice. I called and was put on hold for quite a while. They refused to say who they were or any details on their info they stated they had on me. I'm reporting this to the FBI. you should too
Jackie
Jackie
2012-03-03 19:07:34
Unknown
This number called my phone identified himself as attorney officer peter miller even tho my voice mail had said to call a John back. Very heavy middle eastern accent so rude and it was urgent time sensitive business matter. At the end of the message he said the same thing if you don't return my call today I wish you the best of luck as the situation unfolds and god bless you.
Carla Crenshaw
Carla Crenshaw
2012-03-03 18:40:15
Unknown
These people feels that America is Free for them to try to scam. this needs to be taken care of just like you would an illegal person, or a guilty criminal. I recieved a threatin call today and I don't appreciate it at all. PLEASE take care of these people!!! If I was an elder person or someone that got scared easily I would fall for their scam and be out of alot of  money. PLEASE HELP!!!!!
Ms Crenshaw
brian
brian
2012-03-02 23:03:55
Unknown
yea i got one too same senerio called FBI had number traced back to california they said that its a scam that they are just fishing and that its a scam just punch in the number and search google there is a thousand report on this number good luck
brian
brian
2012-03-02 22:58:31
Unknown
Just got off phone with the FBI same s*** number tracks back to san rafeal california told me i had warents i would be arrester called the number back now they dont answer sain i was being suied and a bunch of other s***
jim weber
jim weber
2012-03-02 21:49:34
Unknown
Got a phone call a few weeks ago and told me I was being sued for insuficent funds and I told him that my account is good and never had a bad check.  He kept saying I was being sued, I told him to send me the papers, never got them, now I get a phone call at work from some guy named Marshall and it's important that I call back, so when I called some Indian guy answered and when I asked for marshall he wasn't there,  how did these people get my information
ALLAN
ALLAN
2012-03-02 21:05:56
Unknown
have the same phone call today and also three days ago.guy had a very thick indian accent too.it's weird how they got my work number and the name of the company i work for
MDJ
MDJ
2012-03-02 19:36:09
Unknown
I got the exact same message on my voice mail about a time sensitive matter that I must call back about. Only this time it was "John Smith" but also said the same thing that if I didn't call back he wishes me good luck as the situation unfolds. I never called back of course but I have seen the number coming up again on my id. I just hit the ignore button on my phone.
sTACI
sTACI
2012-03-02 16:52:00
Unknown
RC'VD phone call from 415-259-5026 very rude man with very bad broken english- said there are ctiminal charges be brought against me...pending lawsuit blah blah... I demanded proof of the debt be setn to me. I would not verify anything. I ended up hagning up on him. He called back twice. Did not like an American woman getting smart with him. Then he gave me this number to call for details of my lawsuit that number is 415-259-5006. This is a business #, and they have no idea why I'm calling them. They have gotten other  calls like mine as well. This is obviously a scam!!!! Please... DO NOT GIVE OUT OR VERIFY ANY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFO.
Marie
Marie
2012-03-02 02:55:04
Unknown
I received three call today told him if he can't tell me what the charges are for then he was lying he hasn't called back this is a scam. Glad I googled his #
Ryan
Ryan
2012-03-02 00:38:28
Unknown
3 calls today,  pretty sure the number is outside of the country.  Arabic or Indian guy.. I told him if he couldnt tell me who he represented he could kiss my a**.  And don't call back.   I'm sure its from the online loan thing.  Hopefully they only have the last four of my social and not the whole thing.
ashlee
ashlee
2012-03-01 23:46:01
Unknown
I just had the same thing happen...he left me a threatneing message and told me to call back or else...he even had the nerve to Csay "god bless"...
Kawboy03
Kawboy03
2012-03-01 22:42:10
Unknown
Received a call at work today from John Walter who had a very heavy Indian accent.  Said I had a lawsuit filed against me in California.  I should call this number and ask for Nathan Rice or David Cooper. Must be some kind of scam.  They had a lot of my info which is very scary.  Be very careful !!!!!!
Anon
Anon
2012-03-01 05:24:13
Unknown
Yes I got one of these calls also and applied for a loan. but whenever I get a call like this I answer Homeland Security Cyber Crimes and they always hang up. Lol
Cory
Cory
2012-03-01 00:24:47
Unknown
So, I got the very same call today. He even gave menames of lawyers but their call-back number was the exact number he was calling from. He said I needed an extension. I stupidly applied for a loan online a month ago and provided my information. Guess these a-holes got it too. I am following up with a report to the police. Beware... If anyone attempts to contact you from WhisperLoans do not talk to them. Do not go to their website. I have a police report against them and am in the process of getting a call recording from Chase. They called Chase and used my information to ensure I could cover a $400 loan. They then deposited the money into my account. They want me to pay $120 plus the $400. 2 weeks have gone by and them came in a took $120 from my account. Left the original $400 so they can come back in 2weeks and take $120 again. I tried to call them and resolve this and they hangup on me. I was even willing to pay the $400 to stop this vicious cycle. Screw that now! I am closing my account (Chase said that is the best thing to do because they keep seeing these) tomorrow. Don't let these guys at this 415 number bother you. Ignore them and report it to the police.
Big Mac
Big Mac
2012-02-29 21:52:01
Unknown
I got the same call today, and I also applied for a loan recently online. The guy that called had a very strong Arabic accent (couldn't halfway understand him), and told me that there was a law suit being filed against me and to call back 415-259-5026, ext-891 and ask for David Cooper. I'm not calling anybody!! They called my Cell & my Work Phones. How do people get away with things like this?? There should really be some way to fight back and put these people behind bars!! Or, deport them back to wherever they came from. I'm just tired of Scammers, Spammers & Frauds!!
William Grant
William Grant
2012-02-29 16:52:51
Unknown
They just called me and told me the same thing. Told him I have never lived in Cali.. He said yes you do and that I am living in Sana Anna.. I said I will contact my Lawyer and he can talk to him. The guy hung up the phone as soon as I said that.
annoy
annoy
2012-02-28 01:34:45
Prank Call
I GOT THE SAME CALL TWICE IN ONE DAY, I HAVE NUMEROUS NUMBERS OF CALL OF THIS NATURE. I DO IGNORE THEM, BUT I AM ABOUT TO GET A LAWYER AND REVERSE THE PROCESS ON THEM. I AM MORE THEN SURE THAT THE CALLS CAN BE TRACED AS TO WHERE THEY ARE ACTUALLY COMING OUT FROM. IF THEY WANT TO PLAY BALL THEN I CAN PLAY BALL. I AM VERY ANNOY THAT PEOPLE CAN BE HASSARED BY THIESE MISGIVING INDIVUALS THAT HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO BUT CALL PEOPLE TO SCAM THEM OUT OF THERE HARD EARN MONEY.
Betty
Betty
2012-02-27 21:10:13
Unknown
I received several calls from this number and was told that the local sheriff would be picking me up on my job.  Unfortunately I did apply for a loan online so they do have some info, but I would not give them anymore.  When I asked where he was located. He said California, Sacramento.  Then told me I was stupid.  I told him he was the stupid one for saying California, Sacramento.  I also told him I was reporting him to the local police.
Rachel
Rachel
2012-02-27 19:30:22
Unknown
yep..... got me today tooo!   I like that camel humper!!!

Told his dirty a** to come see me!  My ex-hubby was a police and taught me how to shoot!!!
Rachel
Rachel
2012-02-27 19:18:02
Unknown
Strangle him for me too!!!  till his little eyes bug out!!!!
Rachel
Rachel
2012-02-27 19:14:43
Unknown
I just got the same call!!!!  from a David White with a thick Indian accent

Called to ask if i knew about certain legal issues and threatened that I would be in big trouble if i did not talk to him!!! ******* with a thick accent and an Anglican name????? Hang up on this criminal!!!


YES THAT FOUL ANIMAL SHOULD BE LOCKED UP WITH BIG MALE *** PREDATORS!!!! and a can of vaseline!!!!
Rachel
Rachel
2012-02-27 19:12:46
Unknown
Dog just called me.....went through court records and pulled information to try and make is sound authentic.....  Need to turn his a** over to the folks he ripped off....
Rachel
Rachel
2012-02-27 19:11:01
Unknown
Called to ask if i knew about certain legal issues and threatened that I would be in big trouble if i did not talk to him!!!  

******* with a thick accent and an Anglican name????? Hang up on this criminal!!!

YES THAT FOUL ANIMAL SHOULD BE LOCKED UP WITH BIG MALE *** PREDATORS!!!! and a can of vaseline!!!!  HE NEEDS TO BE JACKED TO SEE HOW IT FEELS!!!
Sunshine
Sunshine
2012-02-27 17:55:15
Unknown
Received the same call from the same indian accent man " Mark Jones" stating that he was an attorney and I was being sued. He is now calling my daughter, my husband and called me twice at work already. Rude as hell. Threating me stating I was needing to obtain an attorney, and that I was going to be served papers. And I am in the works of reporting him to the police.
Alfalfa
Alfalfa
2012-02-27 16:36:13
Unknown
One leg of this scam has been shut down:

Even scam artists are outsourcing. On Tuesday in its first crackdown on fraudulent telemarketing in South Asia, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it was shutting down two California-based companies that used a call center in India to defraud Americans out of more than $5 million over the past two years.

Workers in India made threatening calls to Americans getting them to pay money on debts that they didn't owe, the FTC charges. At an FTC press conference in Chicago on Tuesday, fraud victim JanLaree DeJulius explained that she had received a call from someone claiming to be an enforcement officer from the (phony) "Federal Department of Crime and Prevention," who threatened to have her arrested and have her wages garnished if she didn't pay a bill of more than $730. The scam artists had gotten her name and information from a payday loan her ex-husband had taken out in her name.

"It was very embarrassing," Dejulius said. "He knew everything about me so I agreed to set up an installment." She is not alone. According to the FTC, more than 8 million calls were made since 2010 and at least 17,000 transactions processed across the United States related to the global scam.

On Tuesday under request from the FTC, a U.S. District Court in Chicago stopped the international operation, charging Varang K. Thaker and two companies he owned, American Credit Crunchers, LLC, and an affiliate Ebeeze, LLC, with violating the FTC Act and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.

"This is a brazen operation based on pure fraud, and the FTC is committed to shutting it down," said David Vladeck, director of the FTC's consumer protection bureau. "Consumers should not be pressured into paying debt they don't remember owing. Legitimate debt collectors must provide consumers with both written information about the debt, and instructions for protecting themselves if they don't think they owe the debt."

According to the FTC's charges, Thaker used Social Security numbers and bank account numbers obtained from payday lenders to identify the victims for his scam. He outsourced the work to an Indian call center, where workers made threatening calls to American consumers to pay fake debt or collect on bills for which they were not authorized.

Thaker was not available when contacted by telephone on Tuesday. A woman who claimed to be Thaker's older sister and asked not to be named for privacy reasons said he is working with the FTC to help the Indian government pursue the fraudster call center operators. She also said he was innocent in the scam. "He was being used by somebody. He didn't even know where they got the information," she told The Huffington Post by phone. She said that her brother got 10 percent of the earnings from the scam operation.

The FTC charges against Thaker are the latest in a series of police actions by the government agency to put an end to rogue debt collection operations that have become more frequent in the aftermath of the Great Recession. In January, the FTC struck a $2.5-million settlement with debt-buying company Asset Acceptance, LLC, charging that the company had falsely represented itself to customers, including making up phantom debts that customers no longer owed. Last October, the FTC filed a complaint against seven other fraudulent debt collectors, alleging that they had engaged in the same techniques -- demanding money from customers who owed nothing at all.

The growing number of Americans who are unable to pay their bills has meant there are more companies looking to profit from their economic difficulties.

Debt collectors have been taking more aggressive tactics as fewer people are able to make ends meet or are in a cycle of debt. More than 30 million Americans are in debt collection, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Since 2010, more than 4,000 complaints have been filed with the FTC and state attorneys general about fraudulent debt collection calls, the FTC said.

Charles Junitkka, a personal bankruptcy attorney who represents clients in the New York City area, said, "In the last few years, the desperation of the collectors and their efforts have intensified because of the economy."

This story has been updated to reflect comment from a woman who says she is the sister of Varang Thaker. Thaker himself was unavailable for comment.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/21/ftc- ... _n_1289751.html



Consumers across the country report that they're getting telephone calls from people trying to collect on loans the consumers never received or on loans they did receive but for amounts they do not owe. Others are receiving calls from people seeking to recover on loans consumers received but where the creditors never authorized the callers to collect for them. So what's the story?

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation's consumer protection agency, is warning consumers to be on the alert for scam artists posing as debt collectors. It may be hard to tell the difference between a legitimate debt collector and a fake one. Sometimes a fake collector may even have some of your personal information, like a bank account number. A caller may be a fake debt collector if he:

is seeking payment on a debt for a loan you do not recognize;
refuses to give you a mailing address or phone number;
asks you for personal financial or sensitive information; or
exerts high pressure to try to scare you into paying, such as threatening to have you arrested or to report you to a law enforcement agency.

If you think that a caller may be a fake debt collector:
Ask the caller for his name, company, street address, and telephone number. Tell the caller that you refuse to discuss any debt until you get a written "validation notice." The notice must include the amount of the debt, the name of the creditor you owe, and your rights under the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
If a caller refuses to give you all of this information, do not pay! Paying a fake debt collector will not always make them go away. They may make up another debt to try to get more money from you.

Stop speaking with the caller. If you have the caller's address, send a letter demanding that the caller stop contacting you, and keep a copy for your files. By law, real debt collectors must stop calling you if you ask them to in writing.

Do not give the caller personal financial or other sensitive information. Never give out or confirm personal financial or other sensitive information like your bank account, credit card, or Social Security number unless you know whom you're dealing with. Scam artists, like fake debt collectors, can use your information to commit identity theft ? charging your existing credit cards, opening new credit card, checking, or savings accounts, writing fraudulent checks, or taking out loans in your name.

Contact your creditor. If the debt is legitimate ? but you think the collector may not be ? contact your creditor about the calls. Share the information you have about the suspicious calls and find out who, if anyone, the creditor has authorized to collect the debt.

Report the call. Contact the FTC and your state Attorney General's office with information about suspicious callers. Many states have their own debt collection laws in addition to the federal FDCPA. Your Attorney General's office can help you determine your rights under your state's law.>

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt076.shtm
unknown
unknown
2012-02-27 16:33:35
Unknown
Got the same call same detail n he knew the last four digit of my soc. He said to.call David cooper phone num 415-259-5026. Freakin lame. I would be so pissed off if he calls at work. Harass me and I will harass him ten times harder. I am tired of this and yes I also did apply for a loan online.
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