THEY CALL ME ALSO FROM A BRAIN JACKSON SAME THING  THEY REALLY NEED TO GO TO JAIL OVERSEA ALSO

This is an extortion scam originating from India and one of the scamsters has been indicted on fraud charges:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/fraud-charges-f ... ory?id=17069702

i recieved a call from a brain jackson also dont know anything about a cash adavane please stop call.no longer works there

Calls for my brother in law 3 or 4 times a day leaving threating messages.  Heavy accent, very hard to understand.  Wants some kind of payment.  However, if you talk to him, he will not give name of company.  Mostly get messages on answering machine.  Says his name is Jacob Jones.  I have talked to him several times telling him that is in the incorrect phone number, asking him the name of his company, offering to give him brother-in-laws ph # but he just hangs up.  I am ready to get my ph # changed to get rid of this idiot.

my boyfriend was being harassed by theses "jacob brown"s and "michael sinclair"s for a $500 payment and paniced when he heard that they would be at his job to arrest him if he did not pay. i guess they agreed that he could do payments and said his first would be a "good faith" payment of $100 to keep the police from his job, but not to keep him out of debt with them. he asked for the information to pay the money, but the guy told him "no", that he would only give him the information step by step when my boyfriend arrived at a local moneygram site to ensure they would receive the money. he ended up sending $100 to a "rory jenson" in california. im so ticked off cause im aure theres norhing to be done to get our money back.

they have called me so many time telling me that i was being sued because i owed cash advance then i called again trying to get information out of them and they told me it was american payday loan ... his name was said to be nigel and he kept threatning me... I being military am not allowed to take cash advances other than from the government and I explained that to him and he told me that I was liying so I told him if he kept harrasing me i was gonna call the authorities... so now my chain of command is doing an investigation..

Get a phone that blocks insects. Why did you let that insect threaten you? Ignore it and go on with your life. He'll call you with other numbers. Just block it call and you should report all their numbers to the FTC. Here you go www.ftc.gov. You should know that he's trying to extort money out of you by playing around with your emotions. Don't answer them. They can't do a damn thing to you other than call you with multiple numbers.

i just got a call and they said that i got a pay day loan and i have never got one beforwe ever but they said they were going to throw me in jail and i was crying and saying i never got one and the guy was mean and said he was going to hang up on me and send out law inforsement after me he even went as far as to saw can someone watch your kids wail you sit in jail then he said we can settle this right now for so much money and i asked if it was a scam and he got mad and kept saying he was going to send court papers and i would go to jail if i did not give him money i told him i have to call my boyfriend and get his debt. card and call back he is waiting for me to call back is this real i am so scared i have never been in trouble in my life and i never got out a pay day loan what do i do?

i get calls from Alex Watson, Michael Sinclair, Chris Morgan, and tons of others... they call my place of employment, my cell and have all my personal information... they call me telling me i will be arrested the following business day at my place of employment.. well each and every time they call i hit them back with question after question... they don't know what to do... lol they get mad and start cursing at me.. One dude told me To Shut the f*** up.. shut my mouth, do as i'm told and give up my f****n lawyer information... Seriously... naaaa u definitely had the wrong one... i have friends on the police force and immediately contacted them... they told me what to do and report them .. all that happened was they called me from a  few  different numbers.. its always an accented man sounding like he is from india.. .. this one i jus recvd a few moments ago was from Roger & Smith firm...hummmm yeh ok.... don't feed into this b***s*** and never fill out any online forms... Im still lost how they got my ALL MY PERSONAL INFORMATION SS#, WK #, ADDRESS, CELL .. YEH BE SCARED &  CAUTIOUS BUT DON'T FEED INTO IT..

i just received a call from carl green..stating I  owed money to some cashadvance or i will go to jail. Who ever reads this message. they are conarrest. i have reported there number and other numbers to the fbi.   ..go to the FBI website and there is a form that must be filled out. The FBI is aware and they are trying to local this people. They also go by Officer John Snyder and other names. Do not pay them. i promise them you will not go to jail.

I got a call from them talking about i'm a primary suspect of a crime from this brian jackson guy. He claims to work at a law firm... i told him send me a letter & i'll get my lawyer.

I just recieved a call from these people. Telling me I was being sued for not paying my "debt" and joke was on them because I was at my lawyers office and told them I NEVER RECIEVED a Loan from any company at all what's so ever. Luckly for me I told them I was losing service and could barely understand them. I pulled my bank statements and when they called back they were speaking to my lawyer! haha! Just taught them a lesson not to mess with this girl! ;)

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've been receiving these calls a for a few days now.  The latest is from 567-248-4851 from Brian Jackson at Credit Bureau of Investigations stating I will be arrested for a bad check owed to Cash Advance.  I requested that he not call again and to send me a letter stating who I owe and the amount.  I said if he is legit I will receive the letter if not I know this is a scam.  I received the same type of call last Friday and reported it to my State Attorney General's office and the FTC.

I just received a call from jacob brown on my msg machine, telling me i should call back or i would be in trouble...i called back and a micheal sinclair answered..anyway they said i was being sued by morgan law associated for  an outstanding payday loan...i have NEVER taken a payday loan told him so in so many words  lol and he apologized and hung up..both of the men sounded to be from india and what was scary is he read back the last four numbers of my social security #...i didnt say it was mine but how in the world did they get it?? sounds to me like these people are breaking some laws!!!!

Mike Evans does not work here and hasn't worked here in over 3 years!  You are calling a buisness.  I have tried several times to get hold of anyone (Jacob Brown) and can not get thru..  If you keep bothering us at our place of buisness, I will be reporting your number.

Sincerely,
Bridget L Young
Office Manager