This # called me several times.

So this guy calls my phone on a private number...so I dont pick up. He leaves a message saying he is an officer with the " law and Investigation" office. That works for the US government. He has a real real real real thick arabic accent. Says his name is " Officer Gary Smith"....Gary smith??? sure. Anyways he gives me the whole shpeal on how I owe him money, saying I need to make a written statement saying Im going to pay his company this much money. Saying he is collecting for a loan company called " Net Cash" Says I owe 2000 dollars and need to pay 700 today. Says I need to put it in writing with my debit card number on it and get it notarized and send it to him in an hour. I was just like sure bud will do. Little did this dummy know I work for the US Government. SO i decide to take it to my superiors who then want to speak with him. So I call him a back and my Superior speaks to him and he is fumbling his words ...cant come with quick answers to legitimate questions. He then denies stating that I owe his company money. Then says tell my attorney to call him and hangs up. So I left it at that ...but about an hour later he calls back and says "your attorney never called" I say because Im not paying you anything. So then I hang up. I get a call from them again....this time the person on the phone says this is the attorney general...and I say attorney general of who? he says " law and investigation" my name is "leo Walter. But this guys sounds exactly the same as "gary Smith" very think arabic accent.I said I dont give a F. So then he says please call me back. So I Call him back and another guy pick up by the name of "David Spelling" I say connect me to Leo walter...I get put on hold for 5 minutes. I call back ask for " leo" again...he says hes busy...then I say to him ..."why is it that when i google your phone number it says you are a scam?" all he says in " NO, We wil cal you back" and mind you this guys sounds the same as all other three people I spoke to..think arabic accent..havent heard from him since...scammer....so Now this phone number has been blacklisted in all US Military Government black lists.

Hey everyone....I wanted to clue you into a possible way to fight back against these Eastern b*****ds that are calling and using criminal means to get money from people...btw , what they are doing is called EXTORTION and is a FEDERAL CRIME!   Here's what to do and it HAS worked so far.
I'm posting this solution on every forum i see about these idiots and others like them that target our telecommunications systems, etc.

Pick up the phone.  
Wait for a dial tone.
Press *77.

This will set your phone to receive NO "unavailable" calls.  SO far it has kept this number out, as well as numerous other bogus numbers that they block where we cannot see who they really are or if they are using illegal means to hack in or otherwise compromise American phone systems.

Tell everyone you know.  Do this, and it appears it will ONLY let people call you who are legitimate businesses.  BTW, it will also allow the feds to track these morons once and for all if they are STUPID enough to use an UNBLOCKED number!!

Please do this. It works!

Good luck!

Yea they called me in the same exact way....Im an Army officer so I told my commander who is a Major in the Army. so when he called back I told him that I was an American Army officer and that my superior officer would like to speak with him and he hung up...stupid a** hajjis

I know what these people are up to and they are about to get shut down, big time!!!!!!!!!!

I just recieved the same excat phone call.  With the same name Kenneth Spencer, saying that a legal matter had been filed againist me and I needed to return his call as soon as possible or face legal action.  After sitting and thinking about it for a while I decieded to do some research.  He knew the names of my sisters which in its-self is scary.  Be very weary of thyis scam.

Ignore it...that's the only language these b*****ds understand

These people are frauds they have been calling my sister and harrasing her telling her a bunch of CRAP they really need to catch these people because my sister suffers from depression and they have her going bonkers. So it is a big SCAM don't give any of your information what so ever.

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-714-333-2981

This is just another one of hundreds (and perhaps even thousands) of numbers these overseas payday loan debt collection scammers are calling from:

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-9141:

It's a scam, and all their threats are false and illegal.  The bottom line is, these are criminals trying to steal consumers' money.

Here are a few news reports and government advisories warning consumers about this scam:

ABC News:  http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5621205&page=1
West Virginia Attorney General:  http://www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam.cfm
WTAE TV4, Pittsburgh:  http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/call4action/17285785/detail.html
Florida Commissioner of Consumer Services:  http://www.800helpfla.com/newsletter/2008/092008.html

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 gobbylgook 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, Christian Nicholas & Associates, US Federal Bank, Sonic Bank, Hopkins Law Office, CashNet, 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.)

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 (
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) 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.

2) 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 or lawyers, officers of the court or bankers, be sure to include that information in your report.

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

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

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/1-772-228-4008
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-213-255-7015
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-336-553-3965
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-909-6789
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/1-310-909-8245
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

...and many, MANY more.

Someone called and left a message on my cell phone stating that I needed to call them because my name used in a fraud case.  I returned the call ASAP to Officer Ron Lewis from FDLE - Florida Department of Law Enforcement (which is what he stated in the message)and after about a minute I realized this person was calling me to get a hold of someone else, so I immediately knew this was a collection agency.  I told him not to call my cell phone ever again or I would have my attorney call him.  Well a few days later he called again (18 times within a 10 minute span)  I was livid!!!! Finally fed up, I called my local Sheriff's office and lodged a report.  The officer came to my home and placed a call to this number and the same guy answered the phone (I knew it was him because of the accent - and his name was Ron Lewis, yeah right)but stated that Officer Lewis wasn't there.  So the officer left a message for Ron Lewis to call him at the Sheriff's office.  Fifteen minutes later the infamous Ron Lewis called my cell phone once again and left a message apologizing for what he did and stated he would not call me again.  I guess you have to turn to the local authorities to make these people stop calling.  But the nerve to call themselves officers with a state agency - how deceiving is that?

"Officer Kenny" called my sister today stating he was calling to collect a debt from some "CASH NET" internet loan company.  He said that this loan was direct deposited into her account in 2007 and that she needed to start making arrangements for someone to bail her out of jail.  He claimed to have had an "affidavit" in his hands stating that she owes this money.  He also called my other sister to get more info on the one who supposedly owed this debt.  My dad is a retired police officer and called the gentleman back and basically told him where he could stick it (putting it nicely).  Not sure who to call to have this stopped, but it's ridiculous!  She has recently had a baby who is a month old, and he had her so upset she couldn't even talk.  These people need to be HANDLED!!  Oh, and he knew WHERE she banks at and he knows the last 4 digits of her account number.  I recommend closing the old account and starting a new one.  Better safe than sorry!!  She also called her bank and they pulled records dating back BEFORE the supposed date of the deposit and no such deposit has ever been made!

I just received the same call, but this isn't the first time.  He has been harrassing me at my place of employment and every few minutes at my home.  He tried to get information from me, I had already, inadvertently said yes to my SS# when he read it.  When I told him that I was done giving info to him he threatened "I will send cops and investigators to your work".  I knew it was a scam.  
I don't know who to contact about this.  Any suggestions?

Received a message from a man claiming to be a law enforcement agent in fraud department for the government.  His message said to call this number back.  Ya, right!  Next time the number showed up, I answered.  Claimed that I owed money for a payday loan and he was representing a company called Cash Net.  For all I know, that could be correct because these payday loan companies sometimes go by several different names.  But, I filed chapter 13 bankruptcy on 4/15/09.  When I told him this, he said have your attorney call us back or we are proceeding with prosecution!  First of all, these companies claim that when a payday loan is in default, you are going to be prosecuted for bouncing a check and fraud!  According to my attorney, not the case.  A payday loan is just the same as an unsecured loan...your check was simply your form of repayment.  This guy has called my siblings, my work, etc!  Don't be alarmed and think that US Official Agents are coming to your work to get you, which is what he just told me...LOL!  Tell him to shove it and speak to your attorney!!!

They are trying to talk my mom, via her cellphone. The man claimed to be a police officer and was trying "collect on a credit card debt" that my mom never applied for. He asked repeatedly for her account details and SS number. She blew them off figuring it was a scam. Next few days, the same guy called me and asked for details on my moms account and SS number. I, too, blew him off. My mom heard he called me and got angry, so she called him back. This time he said he said "is trying to collect on a "pay day loan" she took off the internet"". None of this has been done. I'm assuming it's a scam and will be reporting to the local authorities. Hopefully, shan and I can figure this out.

They called me too. Who are they?