415-891-9356
CA, US
chico
chico
2013-03-12 19:58:02
Unknown
Just got a call today from James Demello, telling me that the sheriff is going to come and arrest me in one hour where I work and when I start asking questions about who I owed when I don't owe anyone a cash advance he got mad and said that he will send all the documents to the sheriff because of not paying the $1,500 which he is asking from me. He told me to pay it 30 minutes. I even ask him what is my case number and he got so mad. He said if I can't pay $1,500 within an hour I will be put in prison for 6 months and will pay more than $9K.  Got so terrified and nerveous..So what I did is check his name online and here you are, saw this post on him.  Thank God this is just a scam.
rusty
rusty
2013-02-01 00:24:37
Unknown
They called my mother who is 75 years and was scared.but I too the phone and told them off told them that they were scaming the wrong person. Now they keep calling her so now I will have a little talk with them  and tell them to leave her alone or they will meet my family in little Italy in new York I'm sure they would love to play with them any one else agree.
De
De
2013-01-25 18:21:29
Debt Collector
He has a new # folks. 414-484-6151. A Ken Parker called me then Att. James Demello answered when I called back. Said I was going to be arrested the next day for 1000 dollars I stole from a cash advance! I have never had a cash advance I told him. He threatened me, called me names and then said to call him back the next day at 11 a.m. Well he started calling me at 10 a.m.! I waited and called him at 11:30 and told him sorry I didn't think I would be on the phone with the officer that long!! I told him they have no warrant for my arrest! He said it was another matter. He hung up well I just kept calling him and harassing. The number now beeps and disconnects. Does anyone have a new # for Attorney James Demello. I miss talking to him!! LOL I plan on finding #'s and keeping in touch he is just so easy to rile up! Moral of the story DON"T MESS WITH SOMEONE WHO HAS NO FEAR OF YOUR TREATS!! If you read this James give me a call I have some more questions for you!!
Danielle Faulkner
Danielle Faulkner
2012-10-18 16:21:39
Unknown
This man just called my place of employment. I am the receptionist, and he gave me the same speech exactly to a t.  Fortunately for me, i played along long enough to get some details from him, and then in a calm soothing voice asked him if i could ask a personal question. He said yes. I asked him if he thought that all Americans were ignorant and stupid.  He replied, "I'm not sure of that YET."  I said, "I think you do think we are stupid, but you know what? You picked the wrong person.  I know that you are a part of a huge scam, you do not scare me, and you will be reprimanded." I have reported his number to FTC, FCC, and filed a complaint with the Attorney General's Office.  I have not received any further phone calls from this person.  I told the little s*** he had the wrong social anyway.  He replied with, "I'm going to hunt you down and fu** you until you die."  Unbelievable.  I laughed quite hard and was like, "what are you going to fu** me with, considering I'm talking to a lieing Indian no good pus**!"  He hung up.
Tina
Tina
2012-10-09 21:25:54
Unknown
On today i received a call at work from phone number 415-952-5630 requesting to speak with me. I work at a doctors office and couldn't get to my desk in time to answer. We have called ID and it comes up as Stinson Beach CA. I had the pleasure of speaking with an "Attorney" James DeMello who says that i applied for multiple loans from a Cash Advanced USA that were never repaid. I never received any loans and i told him that. He could barely speak English. He said that i had until the end of today to make a payment of $685, but that he could not except a credit card or that it could not be withdrawn from my checking account that i had to wire him the money through western union. He said that if i didn't pay that a Sheriff would come to my job and arrest me and that it would be more expensive for me to do it that way. I told him that i couldn't make the payment. He says that he could only hold on to my file until Thursday and after that he has to forward it over to the sheriff's department and that i would have to go to court and then pay a full amount of $4,696....I can say at first it did freak me out and then i come on line and put in the phone number and all the other stories come up.....
Ktn
Ktn
2012-10-06 13:06:31
Debt Collector
Got scammed of my rent money. Homeland Security says its fraud but they can't help. She even had the nerve to ask me to pay more money...Go to hell...Total Scam...

Read this online

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/phantom-debt-co
Mad as hell.
Mad as hell.
2012-10-05 16:30:54
Debt Collector
I got the same call from the same number talking about jail and warrants for my arrest.
Alfalfa
Alfalfa
2012-09-23 15:47:52
Unknown
This is a criminal extortion ring operating out of India. ABC News released an investigative report on it 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
Worried
Worried
2012-09-23 15:45:20
Debt Collector
Same thing as everyone else said. A man who called himself Attorney Marks stated that I needed to pay several hundred dollars to avoid being arrested the next day. He new my social security number and my email address. He couldn't accept payment via a credit card or via my bank. He wanted me to go to a Walmart and do a bill pay voucher via Western Union. He had absolutely NO details about the loan (i.e. what company, how much I supposedly borrowed, account number, etc.). I was so worried. I told him that I couldn't pay the amount he wanted because I just didn't have it. He told me that if I paid half then he could put my case on hold and that would give me time to come up with the rest and avoid me getting arrested. In the back of my mind I knew something just didn't sound right; however, I was still scared and kept thinking...well, what if this is real. I literally had a family member drive to Walmart. While she was on her way to pay, I contacted the police and told them. They said, NO, don't pay, it's a scam. They googled the number and said---IT'S A SCAM. So grateful that I read everyone's info from this site to know not to pay. Thanks for posting!!!
Worried
Worried
2012-09-23 15:14:14
Debt Collector
Received a call from 415-891-9356. The man had a heavy accent (from India). He stated that his name was Jason Marks (attorney Marks). He stated that I was going to be arrested the next day. I was going to jail for four months. He stated that I owed a Pay Day Loan several hundred dollars that I never paid back. He new personal information about me (SSN). I was sooooo very scared.
scrubout71
scrubout71
2012-08-24 08:55:26
Unknown
This person so called James Stevens with a thick middle eastern like people who is from Iraq or somewhere keep calling my phone. He left a message talking the same thing and weeks before some other person with the same time of accent called with a different name and number.  It is nothing but a scam when you get a call like that call you local authorities, FTC, AND the FBI and give them the numbers and the phony name and anything else you can think of.
Elli C
Elli C
2012-08-23 00:30:18
Debt Collector
Thanks for clearing up this dude's name...Kevin Meen. I can barely understand what he says except, "All I can say is good luck to you" after threatening me about something. I called and had to leave a message. I have never gotten a Cash Advance USA pay day loan, so I know he's bogus. I will wait and see what he does. How about a class action suit? All of us who's gotten the calls.
rose9109
rose9109
2012-08-21 12:57:19
Unknown
This guy called me while at work and i didn't answer my cell. Then he called my job saying he needed my attorney information and when I said I dont have one and nobody contacted me he gave me his number to call back. When I called he attomatically knew who was calling and not conforming it was the right number. He then procceded to tell me about a lawsuit against me. Said i owed Cash Advance USA $680.00 and if i lost the case i owed them $4000. It all seemed fishy and when I was able to ask him question about a court date he kept going back to how I owed money and if I lost the case. I became angery and yelled at he. I told him if he had all this information on a lawsuit he should be able to provide me with a court date. He got upset cause I was yelling and said he was not a costumer service center and then said ok ma'am your upset and hung up after mumbling something under his breath at me.
lisa
lisa
2012-08-21 00:25:27
Unknown
They didn't even call me till today at work I don't know how they got my number couple of weeks ago they took 29.95 out of my bank account I dont know how they got my bank info screwed up my direct deposits and all my bills
matt
matt
2012-08-20 23:31:49
Unknown
Total scam. This guy named kevin meen called with a heavy accent and told me everything he told all of you then I told him to F off and he blew up. So I just laughed and was all wooww, your a professional paralegal. Dude, while laughing, he became more mad and said the cops were on there way so I told him that was fine and id wait for them to arrive since I knew it wasn't real. Just don't get scared if it was real, thered be no cops, thered be no indian dude harassing you, and they sure as hell wouldn't cuss at there possible "clients".
shelby
shelby
2012-08-20 23:20:25
Unknown
they said they were paralegals working on my case. Which I know there's nothing against me and if there were the person who is being sued has full rights to know what for and they wouldn't tell me why so I knew it was a scam. If they call u say you referred them to the FTC and u know there scammers ad hang up because they will tell you your being sued and the cops are coming inless u pay a fee to a wstern union. And ofcourse they always have a foreign accent...they can be very rude so your best bet is to hang up.
AJ
AJ
2012-08-20 18:44:53
Unknown
i recieved a phone call from this number talking about i owed a loan company and the police was coming to my job to show me some documents and arrest me. my lawyer needed to call and make a payment of $1,700.00. had me all worked up. I have 2 small babies to raise and dont have time for this foolishness!!!!!!!! if i have anything to say it is that GOD IS REAL!!!!!!!! YOU WILL REAP WHAT U SOW!!!!!!!!!!
DS
DS
2012-08-18 20:46:07
Unknown
I havent heard from them since the 16th. I think you just gotta show them youre not intimidated by them and youre not buying their bs.If you do that it looks like they will leave you alone.
Alfalfa
Alfalfa
2012-08-17 17:53:42
Unknown
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
Cam
Cam
2012-08-17 17:52:32
Unknown
I also got a call on my cell and at work I have put a report with the FTC and putting a fraud alert on my ss
Sarah
Sarah
2012-08-17 16:55:38
Unknown
Yes this man said his name was Eric Wilson and left me a message and said I had a law suit against my socail security number and to respind immediatly. I had no idea what this was about.
DS
DS
2012-08-16 05:18:17
Prank Call
This is the second call I got from these people. What a bunch of bs!! Told him I knew all about their stupid scam and that I wasnt scared and than told him f*** off. Than he told me the cops were coming to get me. I said oh I thought they were coming yesterday. Than he told me to f*** off and hung up.
T Wright
T Wright
2012-08-15 17:52:25
Debt Collector
rec'd thios call form someone with foreign accent , left msg , talking about urgent matter, stating must have attorney call.
Happy
Happy
2012-07-18 15:27:39
Unknown
If you get this call please call the federal trade commission, office of attorney general, report fraud alert, & call your local police department. Please report the number. These people are not in the U S.
Musician
Musician
2012-07-18 14:40:38
Unknown
I also received a call from the same number yesterday as I was driving the guy stated called and stated that this was a time sensitive message and I was to return the call immediately when I returned the call they connected me to some named Michelle brown and she said I owed cash advance a large sum of money and there was nothing she could do the sheriff would be at my home tomorrow at 11:am to pick me up of course I panicked and said what can I do.  I am so glad I found this post now I now exactly what to do.
nurse
nurse
2012-07-17 17:45:40
Debt Collector
Received call from james stating police going to arrest me at my job new the name of company I worked for States I owe money to Cash Advance USA which I dont Said I had half hour to western union money or gonna be arrested. He did become very angry when I asked who I owed and I asked for a phone number so I could call and find out about this debt threatened jail when I asked. I filed a complaint with Attorney Generals Office Michael Dewine complaint filed on Cash Advance USA web site link called my bank put a fraud alert out and also gonna file a police report James also new my social sercurity number and my email address.
Happy
Happy
2012-07-16 22:15:46
Unknown
Got a call from a foreign attorney name James Pemellli. Said he was gonna have me arrested.
He wouldn't provide no details.
Scam By James Demello
Scam By James Demello
2012-07-13 16:31:31
Unknown
Scam He also called me and told me the sheriff was going to come and arrest me tomorrow and when I started asking questions about who I owed when i don't owe anyone a cash advance he got mad and said well I can just send this and say that u refused to pay. Then he said you only have 30 minutes  to pay and only pay by western union. his name was also James demello.
kk0716
kk0716
2012-07-11 00:10:17
Unknown
just got the call myself.  they are coming to my job to get me
annielynn2010
annielynn2010
2012-07-10 01:55:49
Debt Collector
They had me all scared and worried that someone was gonna come get me and take me to jail all the way in california! This is ridiculous and they should be stopped!
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