A guy named David Scott called my mom house and asked for me first he said my social sec number was stolen then he said I was going to be arrested. He called again and asked my mom if she had a boyfriends
she is 82.My mom said a spanish man left a voice message that called her by name and then said he was going to stick his johnny in her mouth and then he said thank you an hung up she said he sounded like the David Scott guy she was pretty upsetI told her I dont give her number out.
She swears its the same guy

We are getting the same type of phone calls for a person in our office.  The phone caller is presistant in calling every few minutes.  He has cursed at all the staff.  This morning he is trying to be sweet but we recongize his voice since it is a small office.

He has told everyone in our office he is going to come her to F*** us all.
This person has called every minute for over an hour.

I have been recieving calls from this person and they are very loud and very vulgar! This needs to stop! I have no idea what they want from me! They are even saying that I will lose my job! I know thay cant really do anything to me or make me lose my job but this is rediculous!!

Seriously?

Those people called my husband job today and spoke to the owner and cussed my husband boss out. well they fired him. how do you stop these kind of criminals?

I started receiving the same type of phone calls recently.  Have you found out any information regarding the company calling and have the harassing phone calls stopped?

I received numerous harassing phone calls from this number 567-248-5723 at my place of employment.  They did not identify themselves as a telemarketer or a collection agency, so I do not know the reason for the call or their type of business.  They also made derrogatory remarks and used foul language when they left a message with our emergency answering service . A person who identified himself as "Jim Cross", with a foreign accent,  also called back using several different numbers.  I contacted our local police department to file a complaint of harassment.

I got a call today from a guy with a thick indian accent he then proceeded to tell me I took out a payday loan (which I didnt) and I had to pay it back he then said he had to transfer me to his supervisor after about 2 secs he comes back on trying to change his voice to sound different but Im far from dumb...After I call him out on his BS he starts calling me names very bad prfane  words so I hang up over the next several hours he calls my job line over 50 times.....

i have been harased by this indian man and keep calling my job and curse out my co workers and getting tired of this foolishness and anyone out there that know of a number to stop these people please reply.

it has this indian man that keep calling my job that keep claiming that i owe money and keep harashing me and my co-workers on the my job and i am getting tired of it so anyone that no the people to get in touch with to stop these people please reply.

They need to stop harassing people and get a real job! Stop scamming.

My boss called me on my day off and said a guy named scott was lookiung for me and he was really ugly to him but that i need to call him scott back it had to do with my ssn so i did on my mother number. I talk to them and her phone got cut off so they called back and stared calling my mom moth******er. Later on after that i got into it with them then later they called me a bi***.

We are receiving these calls also - please post list of all numbers associated to this Mr. Scott.  Thanks

This caller (sounded Indian) called our business looking for an employee stating that it was a medical emergency and they needed to get in touch with him immediately.  It appears that they have been trying to get banking information from him and have been harassing him for a while.

This number keeps calling my job threading me and I'm getting sick of it.  It they don't stop I'm going to call the police on them.

Tell them the next time they call you are aware this is an extortion scam, have called the police and the FTC and hang up.

This guy named John....yeah ok don't know of an Indian sounding speaking person with the name John keeps calling my job and cell phone using obscenities. Saying he's coming to my job I told go ahead I'll be waiting. Saying I owe him $ for something I have no idea what for. Today he said he's gonna get my daughter and my son. Well I don't have a son. Someone needs to do something about this scam artist. Ughhhh

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

Hello Mr. Jones, I am have the same problem as you. I work for the Delaware National Guard. I need that number to start harrassing them back. I think i have it but am not totally sure 567-248-5723. can you please let me know. thank you.

For two days we received those harassing calls from someone who said that his name was David Scott.  Of course Mr. Scott with the thick Indian accent, used every vulgar, profane word that his little mind could think of, and promised we would not do business, because he would harass us all day, until he spoke with the person that he was calling for.  That person left the company years ago.  I assured him that his threats were not going to work with me.  My staff and I started calling him on all of our phone lines (4) and our ipads and ipods, and getting other people to call.  At first they stop answering, but we never stopped calling, and by 4:30 pm someone from that number was calling and begging, yes my friends begging, us to please stop the calls, and even said "I can hear you all laughing in the background".  Yes, we were laughing, and the more he begged, the more we laughed. All of the calls were recorded.
Get some relief, harass them...Payback is a "mutha"...  If you cannot get their number, reply on this post and I will tell you how to get it.

I just got a call at work too and the guy cussed me out I had to laugh also told me to suck his (((( ....I have had the ol' calls with threats to come to my job my house etc which are all fake as we know but this one takes the cake!!!

Is there an agency that can stop this mess?   Lots of profane and vulgar language...

RAGUEL GOMEZ FROM LAREDO TX, THEY KEEP HARASSIMG OVER THE PHONE AND AT WORK,  EVEN TEL MY BOSSES OFF.

Yup got those same calls,we gone a have u arrested,the gona get u at your job,so u better be ready!!call this person to,blah,blah...the only difference is they called from 707-506-6790,then gave me the 526-248-572357235#to call for the info on what the warrant was about,this was all day thur,then fri morn,6am they start to call again...really these people need to be dealt with asap..~_~!!!

Thhi number keeps calling me at work yelling at who ever anwers the phone they alo keep calling my cell phone leving message that they are the police and they aare coming to arrest me

This number has been calling my work number and harrassing whoever answers the phone. They have cussed me, my co-workers, and my boss. They state they are calling from a legal company but, I don't believe that legal companies call their clients M***** F******, bit**es, and talk about how they are going to f*** your mother. These "companies" need to be shut down IMMEDIATELY!! They are nothing but trash and benefit no one.

THIS PHONE CALLS AND HARASSES WHOMEVER ANSWERS THE CALLS. THIS NEEDS TO STOP!

Hey what did they say when they called, I got a call from this number telling my husband he was going to be arrested