567-248-5299
OH, US
 | mcmaham 2012-08-30 17:09:34 Unknown |
Watch out for these a** holes....they called me too. Leaving threatning messages stating they are from Federal Crime Investigation....but what they dont know is some information has been leaked, and they are about to be busted...Richard claim his an officer, but he called the wrong one this time..I work with the law
| jhalls 2012-08-29 13:25:25 Debt Collector |
These guys are idiots they said they were going to have the FBI arrest me if I didnt pay. What a joke I laughed at him till he hung the phone up.
| Helen Basista 2012-08-08 21:05:07 Unknown |
This guy with chinese accent called and said that he was going to have me arrested.
I have NO idea what he is talking about and I couln't even understand him except for when
he started swearing at me and told me that he was going to F*** me up.
I have NO idea what he is talking about and I couln't even understand him except for when
he started swearing at me and told me that he was going to F*** me up.
| scorpioomar@ymail.com 2012-07-25 00:17:42 Unknown |
Just got a call from this number 567-248-5299 today 7/24/2012 names use jack austin and Brian Oliver had my name address work place..sounds like and indian guy also saide he is a Federal Agent working for team 1...saying he was going to send some cops to my house or my work if i did not pay them $450 by the 30th of this month...
| 12x6 2012-07-20 14:43:21 Unknown |
tommy...if you have the time play with this fool,he says he is a police officer get him to admit that he works as a cop in your area and when he does then ask him questions about the police precinct of course he wont be able to answer your questions then laugh at him over the phone and i mean laugh really loud and hear him get mad and curse you out and you just laugh and laugh at him then he will realize he isnt getting any money from you and the calls will stop...REMEMBER HAVE FUN WITH THE IDIOT
| Alfalfa 2012-07-20 14:36:17 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
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
| Tommy 2012-07-20 14:34:21 Unknown |
This guy named Mr Oliver who states he is a policer officers calls me with the last four numbers of my SSN stating its in regards to a legal matter,and if i dont call him back i am going to jail. I really do want to call him back with a few choice words...what should i do??
| Tommy 2012-07-20 14:31:57 Unknown |
is this for real? the same Mr oliver called me with a chinese accent stateing he was an officer and i am going to jail. What did you do about it?
| Justin 2012-07-19 22:14:35 Unknown |
Same thing happened to me today. Guy called me twice. Said he was brain Oliver, weird Chinese accent. Same exact phone call you had. This guy is a do***e bag! Had me and my family worried sick!
| Tristen 2012-07-18 20:06:22 Unknown |
This number called and said he was a Federal Agent and that I defaulted on a payday loan. He said if I didnt pay that I will be arrested today!! Im glad I found these web sites to help out! My husband called back and asked who they were and they gave him a "law firm" my husband asked if they were federal agents and he asked for my husbands name and when he didnt give it they told him to "f off"!!!
| Tristen 2012-07-18 19:55:47 Unknown |
Caller ID'd himself as Don Rogers, he had a very heavy foreign accent. Stated he will have me arrested for check fraud (which i dont have checks) and I need to make a payment or cops will be at my doorstep! I asked if he could mail me something and he stated "no because it would be defamation of character", he also stated he is a FEDERAL AGENT, but would not disclose his badge id #. This is ridiculous, on my way to police dept now!! to get information on how to file a complaint!!
| Kenny 2012-07-14 10:23:28 Unknown |
Anyone knows who this is?
| Crystal Robinson 2012-07-12 21:37:24 Debt Collector |
These people are frauds. If I hadn't googled the number I would have gave them my info. Then they wanted me to send them a fax saying that I was allowing them to charge my credit card for the amount. Please be careful do not fall for it.
| MissyL ;-) 2012-07-12 20:14:26 Debt Collector |
These guys are idiots. I told them the last time I accidently picked up the phone that they could try to have me arrested, however no officer would ever arrest someone on a civil matter. I recieve a dozen calls a day from these private numbers and now they are impersonating Federal Officers. I have reported each number they called from and each number they want me to call them at, to the FBI, the State Departments and local authorities. All have come back with the same answer, the calls are not originating in the US.
| LTANQUE376 2012-07-10 21:07:21 Unknown |
YOU ALL MUST CALL THE STATE DEPARTMENT AND LET THEM KNOW .THESE PEOPLE WORK FOR TERRORIST AND MUST BE STOPPED ASAP. THE NUMBER TO CALL IS 202-282-8000 CALL PLEASE THEY ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY
| Gonna Make a Ohio Road Trip 2012-07-05 22:03:50 Unknown |
Got a call displayed (Private Number) guy left a message. This is Officer Don Rogers (Foreign accent, sounded like Indian, Pak, Afgan. Bangladesh) of Federal Crime Investigation, knew my name, bank, last 4 of SS#, and that they had received information of a lawsuit, I had better call him back now or he would be calling my manager or a officer would be showing up at my office or doorstep, and to call him at 567-248-5299. I knew it was a scam but could not stop myself from calling him back. Called back 567-248-5299 and the phone was answered Hello. I asked for Officer Don Roberts and he cam on the line wanted my name, which I told him then he stated that I was behind on a payday loan, I asked which one and He stated 500FASTCASH, I had checked my bank account as I did have a loan. Payments had been taken from my account the day before, I told him that I wasn't falling for the scam, said a few choice words, he said as many. Told him I would be making a road trip to Ohio (I had ran the number to see where it was from and meet him) more names flowed he stated that the Address he was at was 2313 Byrne Way, Toledo, Ohio 43614. I asked what his was from India, Pak, Afg, or Bangladesh, he said he was spanish???, I told him he is a disgrace to whatever country he was from. Sure it is a fake address. I then called 500FASTCASH to discuss this and was told that the would give me the number to HOMELAND SECURITY. NO HELP WHAT SO EVER.
| Anonymous 2012-07-03 19:51:09 Unknown |
I got the same call. Please report these calls to police department and the Attorney General from your state. Don't ever give them money!!!
| Thomas Witherow 2012-06-29 15:59:33 Debt Collector |
I received a call from these people, which I have saved on my voice mail, where they idenified themselves as Federal Officers. Since when do Employees of the Federal Government want a Debit card to take care of a payday laon, which is in good standings, for a third party. I will be so happy to press charges against these idiots!
| Amanda 2012-06-21 18:29:51 Debt Collector |
PLease be careful these guys are fraudds and use multiple numbers and names to tell you that you have defaulted on a loan. they make threats that they are pressing charges and none of it is true. For me presonally they tell me that my bank account ends in a certain four digit number that is incorrect. they have said that I had a 200 payday loan and that i defaulted on it and to make it right it will cost me over $5,000! What a crok the attorney I know who called them with me present and on speaker made them stutter and stammer and then told them that if they contact me or my family or friends again that charges will be pressed on them and then told them to have a good day! I was laughing soooo hard! Just please people be careful! Oh and they will lie and say that they are calling from the law firm ofGoodwin Proctor. that is a real law firm but not one they are associated with!They have given a different lay firm name to my husband. THey also told my husband that the FBI would be there today to arrest him at work. They keep telling me that I will loose my job in 48 hours. Best thing about that is that I am a stay at home mom and wife and the work I do is to foster puppies that have been rescued from high kill shelters! SO please tell me again I am going to loose my job!! Just people be smart and be careful these people are not legit and will use threats and every manor of coerrson to get you to give them money!
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