What they did to you they've been doing to me. They left a message on my phone telling me that they will call the police and have me arrested, I called our local police department and reported it.

I too have been contacted at my work with the same "someone is on his way to arrest you"  when I hang up they just continue to call back.  This behavior is scary, I contacted my local police department and they confirmed this is a SCAM.  Please do not respond and send them any money.

i got this same call this am very same conversation exact.scared me although i new i had no loans ,you never no what they can pull.i would like to sue the pants off of them.then i would have my scaredness back,sometimes they call me 35 times a day...too much there driving me nuts.im going to have to change my no. not fare....

FYI they also try to scare you by calling in and making it look like it is coming from the sherrifs department, attorney generals office, or even work. Losers even tried my work phone, which came up that I was calling my self. LOL what are they trying to do make me think my boss is calling? So I called the Sherrifs office and we had a great laugh about how dumb these guys are!

Received a call from these lovely people (pure sarcasam btw)... They called me a bunch of names... I returned the saluations. Now I occasionally hit redial and let them yell some more while I type at work, they eventually hang up and I get a significant amount of satisfaction. :-)

I just talked with them and they called me a barage of names, I returned the salutations and now I hit redial and let them yell away while I type at work... They will wish they never called me.

I did apply for a cash advance online, how this man is not the person I have been dealing with. I am not sure what is going on, but since I know many people in the legal department at work I am ready and able to file charges against this individual. He is rude and demanding and will not explain the reason for the call. I WILL NOT give him any money nor will I waste my attorney's time dealing with this obviously derganged and sociopathic individual.

I got a call from 551-497-7495 the man said I owed money for a payday loan that was supposed to be put in my checking acct. I never had a payday loan ,The man also said I was going to jail for fraud, he will not tell me how much is was for

I received a call from a person who swore at me and was completely rude to me, I have no idea what they are talking about and wish to have no more part of being called a f**ing b**tch, being told I am a dumb woman, and asking me if I am f**ing stupid.  I am calling my local police and reporting them as a scam.

My client is receiving harrasing calls for an alleged debt which never existed.  the caller curses, swears and uses foul language.  This is an attempt to harass the victum into paying a nonexistant debt.

said he was an attorney and that I took out a payday loan and never paid it back. says that the police will be at my house to pick me up if I request a copy of the court documents. said I was going to jail and that I better hire a really good attorney. I contacted an attorney who said if they call again they must by law send me something in writing and if they ask for my address let them know I don't give it over the phone. He said he has had numerous calls about this scam and if someone actually gets a letter from them, he will take on the case in court.

this same number called me and told me the same he was a attorney and that the cops were going to arrest me at work place. i got so scared. then i looked it up  online and seen all theses post. i called back and he cused me out and said f*** y**.

I just got off the phone with these degenerates they told me they are calling from a law firm stating that I have a case put against me so I asked for the case number then I asks for the bar # number he began to yell saying I was only to ask one question I said to him you know it's illegal to misrepresent yourself even if your bring to collect a debt. he started to threaten me and hung up on me I tried to call it back but he hung up on me. guess I pissed him off I don't think he will be calling anymore.

I got a call from an supposed attorney claiming they were suing me.  They did scam me out of some money as I did have an exisitng loan in good standing. I am now contacting an attorney to address this issue.

I have received multiple harrassing phone calls from this name, threatening law suits, jail time and "to make my life a living hell". They are threatening my credit, wanting to speak with my employer and threatening my job.  They are now calling both my work and my my cell. Why are they still in business?????

I received this same call from a person who couldn"t speak good english at all. He said he was with starnet, the phone number he called from was  1-551-497-7495. I hope they get their just reward PROSECUTION.

I made the mistake of actually borrowing money from these bozos. I paid them back and then they called me and said that they were sending the payment back to me and would I kindly pay them via western union. You must be kidding, thinks myself. THEN Mr. David Jones called and threatened me with arrest and lawsuits if I did not pay them $5,000!!! A flunky of his, who had NO English skills at ALL, called me and issued left handed threats. My 86 year old mom got on to tell them where to pound it but ended up all paranoid. Don't f--- with my mother, you A-Holes.
I pay my debts.... and they can keep the payoff but that is it. Bloody scammers is what I smell.
Root them out and send them back to the poop-pit they grew up in - airfares on me.

I just got a call myself from these scammers lol i kept calling back and harassing them myself. I am tired of even listening to them. I told them that they would have to file phone harassment charges on me before I would stop.LOL scam scam scam but they are funny. Please dont get upset with these calls just cuss them and hang up

this number551-497-7495 call saiad i had a lawsuit filed against me told me i had a bank account i dont told me i work at mc donalds and i dont and proceded to threaten me saying im going to kick your a** you fu**ing blank and i hung up

I recived call  and 5514977495 they saying the same thing.

this guy is a a***ole

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

I got one of these calls also.  Has any one been able to help you.  I've already called several agencies and I've been told not to worry, however, I am.

Did anything come out of this?

im sorry to hear that u need a wheel chair. my husband i parilized. where do u live?

I got 3 phone calls from this number to and i could not understand a thing he was saying. he said the same thing to me that i needed to send money from a green money pack.whats up with this? do they get off on making people sick. and he also said that i would be picked up for money londering and fraud.i thought omg i literly got sick bad.who r these people?

I dont know the name of the company but it has been 6 times since last year.I worked 30 yrs and it was hard work and now I am disabled and will need a wheel chair because I stood on my feet for so long with long hours.I know that I am not looking for pity just to live in peace without being harrassed.

Yes I also got same message and he wished me luck and God bless.NO God bless that fool for he cant speak properply and that I was going to be arrested for not doing something didnt get that part either because I couldnt understand what he said.Listen I feel bad for the guy and am willing to pitch in with anyone for speech therapy.If one is going to harrass another to scam them then pls pls brush up on your english and vocabulary.I feel sorry for the pple who get upset by these pple.If you dont want to be scammed pls dont listen this is the sixth time since last year and I check my credit score so I always want to be responsible but not to a scammer.

This is a "lawyer" going by the alias of David Jones. He states that he is going to press charges for fraud etc. for not paying back a loan of some sort. He will not give out his "clients" info nor has any substantial information as it is "confidential" DO NOT pay anything. This guy is full of it!

Got a call yesterday from this number. They 'read my my rights' and the charges against me.
The line kept breaking up like international calls do but I didn't interrupt Mr Anthony Anderson (Middle Eastern man with this name? Yeah, ok buddy)
He told me they would proceed to call my work and social services and issue a warrant to arrest me.
I asked for something in writing, they told me they couldn't
I asked who was their client,couldn't get that either.
I asked why I was never contacted in writing and he gave me some lame excuse about them emailing me??
I was worried because they had last 4 digits of my social, my work and my home address
I asked to speak to someone about clearing up my account. Placed on hold and spoke to a man with a very bad impersonation of an Southern accent by the name of Kevin Harris
He told me that he could settle for a percentage off as long as I could get it in today to them.
Needless to say, I told him I didn't have the money and he told me to borrow from someone. I said I'd call them back. Jumped right onto the internet to do research and lo and behold, I see nothing but comments about these being scammers.
Twice already, I've had messages. I haven't answered them. The last one said that I would be arrested and God save me. I think I may answer next time and tell them that I was arrested for not paying my debt.