567-248-7590
OH, US
 | fraosgo@aol.com 2012-09-06 22:23:15 Unknown |
Call the toledo OH police the scum can be there 1-567-248-7590
| JR 2012-09-04 15:48:05 Unknown |
Call from this Morgan Law Assoc 4 times back to back with no time in between. I wasn't answering it because I had a feeling it was a scam caller. I have been receiving this call at my office and I can't get them to stop and it is embarrassing me at work to have my phone ringing off the hook and not answering it. What do I do?
| JR 2012-09-04 15:45:56 Unknown |
I received 4 of these phone calls at my office back to back. Finally picked up and I knew it was a scam and told him he had the wrong number. He then started threatening me and told me he knew it was me and would continue to call over and over again. I hung up. How do you get these jerks to stop calling? I can't have my work phone number constantly ringing and me not answering it. It is quite embarrassing.
| Fed Up 2012-08-17 16:51:02 Unknown |
I just received a call from Samuel Bishop. All he said was if I did not call in 2 hours, I would be arrested. No other info, such as who he was calling for or why I would be arrested. What a crock!
| Nece 2012-08-14 12:59:53 Unknown |
No. Because it's a scam. I received the same call from the same person except he told me his name was Alan Smith. He has a heavy Iranian or Hindi accent. So don't stress its a scam. He didn't have anything on me but an old bank name and my email address stating I had 3 charges pending against me on an account I had not had in 3yrs. on a loan I had never taken out which was deposited into this bank account in March of 2012 he couldn't even be specific on the dates. I tell you what next time he calls ask him questions and see where his info won't add up and then tell him you have went to the district attorneys office and the y have gotten with the FBI to investigate and that you know its a scam and they will find out that that call is coming from overseas I bet then he will stop calling.
| cliffne 2012-08-08 18:52:57 Unknown |
No, this is an attempt to scare you into paying them. They use intimidation to get you to pay a bill that you do not owe. I had these clowns call my house after my son had filled out a payday loan. I asked who they represent, and they won't answer. I ask what bill they are collecting, and they don't know.
They imply there will be consequences, but there won't be.
They imply there will be consequences, but there won't be.
| Alfalfa 2012-08-08 15:33:48 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
| Mimi 2012-08-08 15:16:24 Unknown |
I just recieved the same call. He got a little belligerent with me saying he was sending the police to my job to arrest me. Indian accent. What's scary is they have my info. But as soon as I told this individual that I know this is fraud & reporting them to the FBI they got nastier with me. I have had they calls before... You just have to stay strong & keep telling them it's all over the Internet & the FBI knows..they will stop. It is ridiculous how they threaten you! The nerve of them.
| Rachel 2012-08-07 19:05:47 Unknown |
And his name is Samuel Bishop
| Rachel 2012-08-07 19:04:47 Unknown |
I received a call saying that the police was coming to my job to arrest me. If I dont pay a certain amount today. But when I mentioned that I would have my lawyer call and settle this out. He hung up on me
| Sharon C 2012-08-06 17:50:10 Unknown |
I have been getting the same exact thing. I am done with it.
| Will 2012-08-03 16:59:19 Unknown |
Got a call from an indian accented man posing as an attorney from Blanchard named James Smith, left me a simliar message as some described & said he'd wish me good luck if I didn't call back. Another # to be reported to the FBI
| Bobbie 2012-08-02 18:22:50 Unknown |
My daughter received call from Morgan & Assoc. Stating she did not make the court date today and an officer will be by her job to arrest her.
I called the company - out of Ohio, man with Indian accent I spoke with and I have asked him why he called my daughter saying she was going to be arrested. He denied saying the threat and when I asked information on who hired him he stated he gave her all of that information. My daughter denied getting such information, I called them back asked spoke some more to another individual, they did give me a fax # to fax her bank information as proof she never rec'd $ from anyone. When I asked for the company name and # of who hired them this individual hung up on me. My daughter could not call them because they blocked her work # they first called on.
Thank You everyone for posts on this fraud company - I hate hearing that some people got so upset and easily give $ to them without looking up the information first.
I called the company - out of Ohio, man with Indian accent I spoke with and I have asked him why he called my daughter saying she was going to be arrested. He denied saying the threat and when I asked information on who hired him he stated he gave her all of that information. My daughter denied getting such information, I called them back asked spoke some more to another individual, they did give me a fax # to fax her bank information as proof she never rec'd $ from anyone. When I asked for the company name and # of who hired them this individual hung up on me. My daughter could not call them because they blocked her work # they first called on.
Thank You everyone for posts on this fraud company - I hate hearing that some people got so upset and easily give $ to them without looking up the information first.
| Zena 2012-08-01 12:14:57 Debt Collector |
Iam getting threatening call stating if I do not pay I will lose my job and they will send the police to my home or my work . Can they do this
| Marilee 2012-07-25 18:42:14 Debt Collector |
A payday loan collector with a foreign accent
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