Please do file reports with the FBI, your state attorney general and Department Of Justice,FTC & FCC..

http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx
http://www.fbi.gov/
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/#&panel1-1
https://esupport.fcc.gov/ccmsforms/form1088.action
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/

And see:

http://800notes.com/forum/ta-86217073a9c8dad/ ... 077595690349410
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http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0258-fake-debt-collectors
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http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/pubs/pressreleases/extortion_scam.htm
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Also read up on the laws and your rights:

http://800notes.com/arts/Jb8EW-eDhQA/harassin ... ou-need-to-know
http://www.ftc.gov/os/statutes/fdcpajump.shtm
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/askcfpb/search ...
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/pdf-0096-fair-credit-reporting-act.pdf

This person calls my husbands cell phone repeated, the last time he called he threatened to come to our house and commit sex act on me! if you have any further information please post - I definitely want to press charges! (we did contact att)

Just got a call from from the Department of Legal Affairs (Indian accent) stating my name is now the focus of a criminial investigation and that I should call George McCormick at 646-571-4410 ext. 1053 of the same department to find out what this was all about.  When I called the number back immediately, a female with an Indian accent asked for my name.  I refused to give it to her and demanded to be transferred directly to ext. 1053.  When I refused to give my name, she hung up.   Called back from my US Government phone and got no answer.  Knowing I have absolutely nothing to fear, I Googled the number and found this site with numerous similar (if not exact) stories and names.  I'm reporting this foolishness immediately to the Federal Trade Commission and the US Government authorities.

Got a call this morning stating they could help me with legal issues.  Stated there was an arrest warrant issued for me. Advised me to cal  6465754410 ext 1053 for George McCormick. I hung up devastated. Looked at my caller ID, the same number he gave me was calling me. What the Hell!!!!!! Decided  to goggle number

Got a call from 646-571-4410 from a George McCormick.  Was apparently the same scammers.  Returned the call, and got voice mail.  Told them I could not understand half of what this guy was saying, but was returning his call.  Then got an "emergency" call flashed up on my phone from another Pakistani, saying he was an officer with some New York police dept and had a warrant for my arrest for defaulting on a payment to the Treasury Dept.  When I accused him of being the same guy that had left a message on my phone earlier and having no jurisdiction in my state, he finally hung up, saying I would see if he had jurisdiction.  Figured it had to be a scam, but it did scare me initially.

I have been getting calls for months from this guy. First, he was taking me to court to get money. Today,he was an investigator with the NYPD and he had a warrant for my arrest. I can't believe anyone would actually fall for this crap. Something should be done to this wacko.

Please everyone that reads this post lets all get  together and stand up to these people like the lady in West Virginia did and sue these peoples a***s!! They have called me at work and on my cell phone threating me!! LOL Well I have already reported them to the NY Sherriff office for one and I am still  pissed! I wan to put a stop to these scam artist!! Anyone who is willing to do so contact me and lets do something about this!!!!

Please let me know if you find out who they are and I will sue them along with you because I got the same call on my cell and at work 2 days ago.  They told me the same thing that they told you.  I reported them to the police department.

I've been getting these calls non stop for a while and I never answer. There's a VERY foreign guy who just about screams my name in the message. Lately, he says he's an officer and he's calling from the "Sherrif's" office, of course he has a different name each time. Last week he said he was with the Financial Fraud Investigation Bureau or something like that. The message said that if I didnt respond they were going to send the sherif to arrest me and "Put me behind the bars..." That was funny but I also looked up the name of the agency and found that it was indeed legit. However, they also have a link for scams that use their name and this scam was listed. Sooo...I called the # back alllll weekend and left messages for that guy. Told him thanks for the voicemail recording because he left me enough info to report the scam...blah, blah, blah. Then I called the number every time I thought about it and left messages...just to say hi :-) Tried to annoy him just as much as he'd been annoying me. Then that Monday I called and actually spoke with someone. I started reading the article to him about their scam...he hung up on me...lol. Yes, it was childish, but I really enjoyed it!!

Receive a call from a man who english was horrible and told me there is a warrant out for me for the amount of $500.00 and demand me to paid it with my credit card or otherwise they will call the local authority and get me arrested. Now why would NYPD call me when I live in FL. I made a mistake verifying my SSN. Please don't when they ask and jsut hang up. I am taking every precousing and report to the Federal Breau. I suggest to do the same if you verify your SSN.

Good luck with that, they're in the far east

They are lying about who they are (they're not lawyers)

he called me and said i had a warrant. he used the name officer andy loffin.   i did a reverse phone number trace and it comes from NewYork. I really wish someone would track his phone and put his a** in JAIL or something that ruins his life like he is trying to do other people.

OFFICER ANDY LAWSON IS CONSTANTLY CALLING ME FROM THIS NUMBER.  THIS IS HARRASSMENT AND I WANT HIM ARRESTED...

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

A guy repeatedly called, sometimes coming up as emergency on my cell caller ID while I'm at work, saying that they were sending the FBI to my place of employment to arrest me for a payday loan I took out online and didn't pay back. They have called repeatedly this morning harassing me. They gave me the number 646-571-4111 and told me his name was Andy Larsen and i only had a few hours to get back with them. I'm in the process of reporting this information to the FTC and filing a report! Be careful and be calm, this is the United States still, if you have never taken out a payday loan then obviously there is no problem. The scariest part is they had ALL my information!!

Calls began last week with a foreign sounding man claiming to be officer Lee, told my husband that there was a warrant for his arrest and if he was home at the time, he would send the police right over.  After a few hot exchanges between the two of them, he soon hung up the phone.  Today the same foreign sounding guy said he was Officer Andy Black and to have my husband to call him at 646-571-4111 although the phone number showed up on caller ID as 646-658-3167 so what out for that one also.

I got several calls from a person who is obviously the same guy with multiple personalities. His names have included (my personal favorite) Tom Jones, Michael Jordan and today Officer Chris Wright from the sheriffs dept.They cal hang up callback hang up call back and this goes on for a few hours everyday. I have no idea what they want,but it is very annoying.

They tried that same mess with me they should be charged with impersonating police.

got a call from "officer Sam Harrison" today saying the same bs.....  contacted local pd.

so this guy calls me on my cell phone asking for my friends mom, im at work and so i hung up cause me back and i walk way from my desk before i walked away from my desk he said he was calling from the F.B.I so i told him to hold on, then i get back on the phone and he says hes a police officer.. and just asked if he could have my friends mom call him so i give her the message and sge calls him, he have her two diffrent name and said she ownd a loan witch she doesnt... IGNORE HIM if he calls you on your call it will pop up as emergancy number dont ansdwer!!

Same thing just happened to me and he stated that he was a police officer but changed his name twice. Tried to say I owed money when I know I don't. When I asked for his badge number he gave me a bogus number and a bogus police department in New York

I just received a call from this number from Officer Jeff Watson from the Department of Federal State Bureau in New Your.  What is the Department of Federal State Bureau?  Same information as everyone else though.  Thanks for the info on this number.

Got a call threatening that I pay money to Cash Advance USA for $375.00. The male caller says that he represents over 600 Pay Day Loan companies, my SS# is under investigation, the sheriff will come to arrest me if I dont settle the matter. His accent is East Indian. I report these scam calls to the FTC and www.FBI.gov and internet scam website www.IC3.gov.

I also received a phone call from these people and he told me he was officer Jeff Watson (like the movie watson and holmes). I asked him for his sargeants phone number and he did not know what to say, and I asked him for a badge number and he gave any number. He said it was the federal criminal network and I tried to find it and it does not exist.

this f*** head called my mom and she is old amd do not know any english and they threatened  to call the cops on my mom and arrest a 65 year old women my mom is outed 450 buck because this dick f***

Hey lisa did you send them money like I did? They called me again today saying I need to make another payment or I'm going to jail

I'm embarrassed to say I fell for this. Great timing- stressed and heading to my first oncologist appt. It was an expensive lesson, but I learned it...not only had they fixed it so the caller id display said "emergency" but when they tried calling later to get more, this time the display showed my work number.

I DON'T KNOW WHO THIS IS THAT KEEPS CALLING MY NUMBER BUT THEY ARE REALLY WORKING MY NERVES..TELLING ME I'M BEING SUED FOR A PAYDAY LOAN...HAS A VERY POOR ACCENT AND I CAN BARELY UNDERSTAND THEM...IF I'M BEING SUED TRUST ME IT WILL COME IN WRITING...IGNORE THESE FOOLS!! :(

Payday * Damn spell correct.