I received a call from an East Indian man claiming to be Allan Roberts saying it was in my best interest to return his call, that the severity of the matter could not be left on my voicemail and to have a retainer attorney. Also ended his message with "God bless you and have a good day". Excuse me me get a life!!!!!

This caller by the name of Adams Jadob left a message on my phone saying that I need to get  in contact with him at PHONE # (646) 652-7427 of a loan.  I Called three times and no answer as a matter of fact the phone rang once each time i called. This person  had an indian accent.  People, watch out for the foreign Scammers.

Got a call from these scam artists this morning, threatening me with a subpoena for court tomorrow....said I had taken out a pay-day loan which I never did.  I did apply because I have fallen on hard times, BUT, I NEVER received any funds from anyone.  The guy's name that called and left a message was Dexter Brown, but when I called back and asked for him and what this was about, I got the run-around.  They told me that I had received funds (when I haven't), and threatened me.  I told this guy (who wouldn't give me his name) "fine - see you in court, and I will sue the hell out of you for fraud, harassment, defamation of character, false statements and anything else that I can get my attorney to come up with."  Don't fall for this scam.  These people are the scum of the earth.

I got the same call todays.ago they will not my hard earned money the hell wit  them the fbi said dont worry and im not at all not a little bit my god is t rue not false

I just got a call from a women named Kathleen straight shetold me that shewanted me to contact her by the end of the day to resolve something she claim she could not discuss over my voice mail she never gave the. Company she worked for but she claim that if I call her back she could help me out of the alleged situation without help of an attorney which I do not know what she is talking about. I've been getting a lot of phone calls from these payday Advanced people who I have repeatedly have asked to stop calling my phone. These people should be stopped from harrasing people. Who are these people.

It's always the same guy, different name & number. He said his name but I could barley understand what he was saying and he said no company name. They don't have my cell number anymore (changed it) but they have my work number (the first time it happened I called them back from work, should not have done that). I aggressively, with no curse words and a strong tone, told them to stop calling me because I know what they're doing is a lie but these are some persistent b*****ds; guess I'll have to get ghetto.

Does anybody know how to get your name & number deleted from there list?

same thing.. same they left message to my cellphone and house phone.. Ron williams. dan jhonson. mike hamilton.. they are the same scamers.. F... them all.. first time i return call.. one read me a long script.. froud, money laundering.. i said.. hell no... then i call again i ask them my lawyer want to know what law firm they are. said walkers and edwards at florida. when i check the number its in NY.. crazy scambug

today i received a call from an east indian man claiming then i was under arrest for an owed payday loan. i raised the roof and threatened him with an attorney. this company is a scam! he told me there was some fraudulent activity regarding my bank account. i have no record of this lender or record of these specific transfers. i told him so and he quickly changed his tune.he then said thet he would put me on a do not contact list. these people should be arrested!

I just got a call from this phone number at work but the phone number came up as 00000 some man from India call and said that he could not leave a message on the voice mail but needed  me to call David Jackson and if he does not here from me by the end of the day then my attorney should call who are these people and do they not know they are calling on a govt line and the calls are recorded.

Phone Number Report: This is the same person who is calling consumers with a (heavy middle eastern accent)which calls himself David Jackson-John Smith-Gagrette which has ph# 904-300-2556 and 646-652-7427 and claims that he is with the BCI criminal investigation, and a Police Office. I complaint to the 48th PTC in Bronx and they didnt do anything. Check out www.napps.org to get info on sprint spectrum LP which is the carrier of 904-300-2556, the police, or FBI should stop this company, or person in violation of the FDCPA LAW.

THESE PEOPLE CALL MY WIFE TELLING HER SHE WILL GO TO JAIL IN THE MORNING IF SHE DOESNT PAY. I CALLED BACK AND ASK HIM SEVERAL QUESTIONS THEN HE HUNG UP . COME TO FIND OUT SOMEONE HAS BEEN TAKEN MONEY OUT OF HER ACCOUNT SO IF THEY HAVE BEEN CALLING YOU PUT A SECURITY CODE ON YOUR ACCOUNT. WORD OF ADVICE

Just received call ffom this number couldnt say my name well and he said his name was michael sinclair.he couldnt speak of the matter over the voicemail but i had better get back to him by the end of the day if i dont want cops at my door. Im gettingtired of these people tey need to be in throuble for doing th

I just got the same call on my voicemail and on my voicemail at work. Same scenario about Ron Williams contacting me etc, etc,....I don't know what he is talking about. They need to be shut down.

Yep: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/

This extortion scam was featured on ABC News last week:

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 GOT THE SAME CALL AND MY CALLER WAS RON WILLIAMS, HE TOLD ME THE SAME THING ABOUT HAVING ME ARRESTED, BUT WHAT IS CREEPY IS THAT THEY KNOW AAALLLL MY INFORMATION EVEN MY BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER..DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO OR WHERE TO REPORT THEM??? PLEASE HELP

Thank God for this web site, I'm just trying to look that phone number up. I got a call from 646-652-7427 the caller was Dexter Brown with Indian accent, self -styled attorney harrassing and issuing a threat that I was a fraud, I took a loan from instant-cash, he called my cell phone and left me a message at my job. I knew nothing about his accusation, I never took loan from a payday loan company, he advised me to pay $8,000 today if I don't want to go to jail, even though I was scared to death, I told him to give me his physical address and my attorney will contact him. . .  I have never had a message so threatening and rude like that before! . . .Please let FBI go after these scammers ASAP,

OMG!!!!!!!!!!! I got the same call fromRon Williams but they were calling me from a 0000 number.... He called me Friday afternoon about 5:45 and left me a vmail... Said i needed to get with him asap for the my case was severe... But could not give me any information on my loan I supposidly had... All he told me was it was from insta cash loan AND they didnt want talk to me cause they were filing charges!!!!!! He needed 390.00 in full and my case would be over... Now I do have a 390.00 loan out but not from an Insta Cash loan group...... I went to my bank and verified that my loans were being paid.. So when he called me yesterday to get the money i told him until I recieved something in writing he could kiss my a**... I wasnt payin s***... He said ok then wse will see you in court i said yes you will!!!!!!!!!!! I was so freaked out friday thinking that I was having charges filed on me I didnt know what to do... Till my husband told me to calm down that it was probably a scam... Im glad to know now that it was.....

A women called my place of employment today . Said her name was Susan Brown and it was an emergency. When I returned the call some indian guy claimed that I owed them 8000.00 from a payday loan I supposedly took out in Jan. of 2012.  He said the name of the company was Instant cash .He told me I would be receiving a supenia at my home tomorrow that they are sueing me. And I would be charged with fraud. I'm calling the Attorney Generals office in the morning to report them. It's a scam trying to get money out of people.

I received a call today from a Ron Williams who left a totally inappropriate and rude message on my phone.  He then called my work and left a message with them.  I called them back and asked for Ron Williams and they would never tell me he was there but started questioning who I was.  He then said this is Melinda Taylor so he had caller id.  I got the same threats about I was going to jail for a long time.  I was a fraud because I did not pay my debts.  I asked him for a copy of the contract.  He said I had it and that they did not keep copies of contracts with a debt made online.  1st mistake.  I asked him for the origination date.  He did not know but it was before May 9 when this claim was put against me.  2nd mistake.  Next He said they had been calling and sending me emails and I failed to respond to them so I was a fraud.  3rd mistake.  I had a payday loan about 3 years ago paid in full.  My email is new so thats a lie. 4th mistake, if it is a debt collection company, they will say they are recording the call and that never occurred.
I told the guy I was going to contact an attorney before I paid anything.  He told me the account had to be paid today or it was going to the courthouse closest to my residence and I did not want that to happen because I would be paying over 8000.00 in fees as well as attorney fees.  I told him I was going to call my attorney and would call back in a couple of hours to inform him of what was going to happen next.  He told me I had taken my own fate in my hands and that what ever happened was what I deserved.
I was so scared I almost gave him and told him my account number.  I am so glad I didn't and researched this number.  Thank goodness for this website

I got a call from David Jackson,and also one from Alex Jones,from this 646-652-7427 number,who both has indian accents,they dont speak proper english,first i want to let people know who get calls from these scammers,that indian people doesn't have these kind of English names,they are using fake name's ,but they go by their nicknames out of where they are operating from,i  hope someone will help the FBI put a stopping,to these people,they were asking me for my credit card information
and i ask them for what reason,i never receive any loan from them,and they are threatenning to sue me for $8,536.00/ but however they can put my file on hold if i come up with $275.00,please do not give your credit card or debit card information to these crooks,hope the network of these scammers can shut down Asap.

I had Dexter Brown call today with an extremely threatening message that if my lawyer didn't contact them by Tuesday a warrant would be out for my arrest . They have all my personal information. I told them I spoke with the police. This isn't the first time they have called. It is scary but after reading the other posts I feel so much better. Something has to be done with these people!

Yessss... I got the same message today!... May 24, 2012 @ 1:18 pm from a David Jackson starring I am about to be sued for an outstanding payday loan that was taken out 4-5 months ago and that the payday loan company financial institution is sueing me for the amout of 532.62 cents and that if nothing was done today they will put the paper work thew to the court house this Monday in the city I currently reside in. After thinking about it I never took out a payday loan!... They had me terrified! I thaught I was going to
Get arrested!!!!.... But thank god I looked this number up!!!!.. Now I know it's fraud!!! Who can I contact about this matter please let me know.

I got a call from this number a man saying his name was dexter brown but he was definitely not american saying i had charges filed against me for an unpaid loan in the amount of 8,000.00 but stated that we could settle today for 300.00 or we had to go to court..

NOT WITHOUT LEGAL PAPERS AND THEY DON'T ARREST YOU FOR A BAD DEBT

IF YOU SEND THEM MONEY  LET US KNOW SO WE CAN ALL CROWN YOU THE NEW KING

SCREW THEM    E-MAILS ARE NOT LEGAL CORRESPONDENCE WHETHER YOU RECIEVE OR NOT

I got the same call today from a Ron Williams.  Same Indian accent.  Called my cell and my work #.  As soon as I heard the voice I didn't even give this guy time to talk.  I told him straight out that he was the same a***ole who called me last week and I've reported them to the FBI and Fraud Dept. and to go f*** themselves!!  Afterwards, I called them back (payback is a bi***)!!  I asked what company was I calling and they kept asking me for my name.  I told them they get no name until I know who they were.  I then proceeded to tell them how they liked being taken for a ride and thank goodness I reported them, especially Ron Williams!!!  I then mentioned my law firm would be looking into this and they would then have to deal with a lawsuit for harassment.  They couldn't hang up fast enough!!!  Love it!!!

These people are crooks,i never receive any money from them and,they are threatenning to sue me.

I just got a phone call from an Indian named Jason. He left a voice mail saying that he has been leaving me messages and that I never return his call and that I was avoiding him. He said that he will be contacting my place of employment and that this would result in legal action if I do not call him in a few hours. I checked the message at 8pm and could not reach him. I have never received a message from him or anyone else at that number. He left the number on my voice mail and said that all he can do is wish me luck and that this is all my fault!

I have never had a message so threatening and rude! You could tell he was reading a script!

These people called me aswell and I've never gotten any kind of loan from them. Obviously its a fraudulent number and they are just trying to get money that's not theirs. I told them I have reported them to the police and if they continue to call me I will get them for harrassment and impersonating a cop. Lets get together n file some kind of lawsuit against them