I got the same call but said his name was Jack Thomas and he has all my information. I have proof I never got a loan and he would not even give me the name of hi sclient. The man was middle eastern and he lost his temper with me cause I asked him to send me all the information about this and he started yelling at me. My grandmother had a lawer call him and he hung up on the lawer. Also he told my mom and my grandmother 2 different stories and this morning told me something totally differnt.

Remind them that they are NOT ALLOWED TO ASK FOR YOUR INTERNET ISP ADDRESS!!!!  They will tell you that everything will be settled once they have that.  But you will be left with nothing because they can log on to ANY of your accounts and have access to passwords, bank accounts, etc.  Moreover, remind them that in THIS country, WRITTEN NOTIFICATION must precede any phone calls.  They will then promise you that written statements will be sent to you once you give them your internet address!  These are NOT lawyers.  They man who called me said he was an African lawyer.  I asked if he knew anything then about American law to which he continued to evade my questions.  In America, there is a Consumer Protection Law.  Finally, if they threaten you with jail, remind them that in America there is NO SUCH THING AS A DEBTORS PRISON UNLESS IT IS THROUGH FRAUD!  I actually DO have an account with cashnetusa for which I authorize the company to debit the money owed from my account and I have NEVER been in default!  When I told the African lawyer this, then he said he would investigate further because there was a mistake.  Ha!  First Pakistan, now Africa!

Today i got the same phone call as the rest of you guys. This time claming to be kelly jones he had a female helping him out. He claimed i had made a loan for 350 dollars. Which i obviously knew i had not.He then said that i had not repaid this and i can resolve any court issues by simply paying it now. He asked for my card number and all of my details. He then claimed that my bank of american account had been paid the loan backin march of this year. He said that it was deposited in my miami account. Now i work for bank of america. Im not dumb. First of all, my account was even open in march i opened it in july of this year. And further more the account would have been in michigan not miami.I then called him out on these two concerns and he quickly avoided them by trying to get me to fax him information. He was calling me non stop and at work. Bank of america has put out an alert for this guy and his female companion, and also cleaned up my account. So if anyone receives any calls regaurding anything like this its fruad and should be reported.

We just got the call from this same guy.. with all the same description as everyone else except he introduced himself as Mike Johnson. He asked for $300 or that we were going to be sued for $12000 by Attorney of Law Hugh Foster, he used Cashnetusa as well. He has a new number, it is 4242458902 . Should I drop it and ignore him or should i take further action? I am worried because he stated the last four of my social and my email address and other information. What did everyone else do?

i GOT A CALL FROM THIS NUMBER STATING THAT CASHNETUSA WAS GONNA SUE ME FOR $6,000 AND IF I RECIEVED MY LAWSUIT PAPERS IN THE MAIL. HE SAID THAT I NEED TO MAKE A PAYMENT THAT DAY OF $821 OR I WOULD HAVE TO GO TO COURT AND IF I DID NOT PAY THEM I WOULD GO TO JAIL. HE HAS A THICK MIDDLE EASTERN ACCENT AND HIS NAME IS KEVIN LOYD. IT IS VERY HARD TO UNDERSTAND AND HE IS VERY RUDE AND ARRAGANT. HE CALLS ME ATLEAST 20 TIMES A DAY AND I SWEAR MY NUMBER IS ON SPEED DIAL. DO NOT SEND THESE PEOPLE MONEY. I GOT A PREPAID WALMART CARD AND THE FIRST PAYMENT WENT TO WEPRINT24INC AND THE NEXT ONE THEY TRIED TO TAKE WAS GONNA GO TO BEST WAY DRIVING SCHOOL. WHO THE HELL ARE THEY??? THEY ARE FRAUD SO DO NOT SEND ANYTHING CALL THE BBB AND IF YOU ALREADY MADE A PAYMENT STOP IT AND PUT A HOLD ON YOUR CARD.

hi everyone. i know everyone doesnt want to hear from a real collector, but these people are a scam. if u have any questions you should contact cashnet direclty and find out who they placed it with. its people that do this that give real collectors a bad name. people dont like us in the first place, this just makes it worse. well i hope this helps

He called me again today... with the number on the phone coming up as 052797777. I just kept hanging up on him, not saying a word when I answered simply answered and hung up, answered and hung up. THIS IS NOT REAL, IT IS A SCAM!

Looks like this a scam being run out of Long Beach.  The callers appear to be of Indian decent.  Have called me 15 times in the span of 4 hours.  Please DO NOT send them any money.  They are somehow phishing information about online loans and have access to all the information.  This person had my social as well as address, driver's license number and names of two references.  I phoned them back yesterday to demand that they leave me alone.  They will threaten to have the cops pick you up and say you have committed bank as well as wire fraud.  Do not believe any of this!  The only case a loan organization can make against someone is a civil matter that involves breach of contract for the money owed.  When I asked what "law firm" he was with he refused to answer nor give me the name of his supervising attorney.   I did contact CashCentral (who I never had a loan with) and filed a report to let them know about these guys.  I have also contacted the State Attorney General for California in order to file a report.  Seems like they are running different scams from similar numbers judging from the reports on the 562 area code.  By the way I do work for a real law firm so it really frustrated him when I knew the law and was not scared by his threats.

Now this man states that his name is Kevin Loute and is saying that he is going to be contacting references that I put down. His has called me over 8 times in the past 24 hours and left me 3 voicemails that are hard to understand. DO NOT CONTACT!

Got a call from this number saying that I had committed a fraud and that charges were being filed against. This guy had a lot of information on me. He had a middle eastern accent and said that his name was Kevin Smith. I later got another message from the same man claiming this time that it was David Lawerence, the supervising lawyer at this place. DO NOT SEND MONEY! THIS IS A SCAM!

Beware of this "law firm" calling to collect a supposed debt.  They are somehow phishing information from online loan applications for payday or other types of loans.  I called Cashnetusa and they confirmed with me that this is fraud.  The name of the person phoning me was Hugh Foster and of course the story was suit was being filed against me in California.  The only thing they want is for you to wire them money for the "debt".  I contacted the State Attorney General in California as well as the BBB.  Do not send them any money!

they keep calling me telling me i've been sued because i didn't pay a loan back.i've NEVER recieved any loans, said they were representing CASHNET USA, but cashnet doesn't know anything about them. the guy who is calling sounds middle eastern says his name is david lawerance or lawerance david, he kept calling my friends saying i put them down as references and before that he some how got my cell number. the number is a california number but comes up as a 0 on caller i.d.

Obvious Troll here....

i have searched about you, you are scam they are legit. dont try to spoil others name just for your ficiticious business.. I have faced them and i have searched them they work according to FTC, and they are registered in BBB as well.

CashNet has REPEATEDLY stated that this is a scam and they have NO affiliation with these people whatsoever:

"We get at least 50 calls a day from people just like you that get these calls. These people have nothing to do with us. It is a scam. Please don't give them any information. We are investigating".

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-201-234-4715

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

HEY EVERYONE IM A REAL COLLECTOR AND THESE PEOPLE ARE A SCAM!!!!! YPU ALL SHOULD CONTACT CASHNET DIRECTLY AND FIND OUT WHERE THE DEBT WAS PLACED HOPE THAT HELPS

Caller identified as Mark Anderson but sounded like a female with West African accent. Heard other accents in the background. Wanted to talk to Anthony ____ which I don't know and was upset that we didn't call back to tell them they had a wrong number when they left preivous message  :) After hanging up on them, the immediately called back. Identified as American Law Division from California looking for Anthony ____ saying they are investigating his name and SSN and need him or his attorney to call back.

Beware of this "law firm" calling to collect a supposed debt.  They are somehow phishing information about payday or other types of loans taken out online.  They will refuse to identify the company they are "collecting" on behalf.  Tend to have either a middle eastern or oriental accent.  Used the name Hugh Foster with me on the phone.  Very rude and pushy for payment.  Can report to California BBB and attorney general.

This number keeps calling my sister telling her that I committed fraud which is not true and that since she is my sister that she is going to be filed suite against becuase she is suposably helping me with fraud. she has asked who they are and they claim to be an attorney office but wont tell her what company they are representing.... They keep leaving her ugly vmails.