This man by the name Jeff Anderson keeps on calling me and threatening me of internet fraud. He claims that I received a $200 cash loan on October 6. SSM Group LLC deposited the money into my account. And according to my bank they took it back on October 14...because I canceled the cash loan...why does Cash USA claim that I owe them money...are they affiliates and partners in this scam? Beware of these people they all have Middle Eastern accents... I mean strong accents. Now the cash loan is an outstanding debt of $305.He said he will call my job and if I intend to pay the cash I received, I must wire the money through Western Union. The address he gave me was in Florida, but the people who constantly call me are located in California. When I call the number 909 with additional different numbers...there's always a recording saying...leave your number and we'll call you back. Instantly the phone rings and Jeff Anderson is on line demanding I fax him a statement that the cash loan is outstanding and I agree to pay...before he asks me to wire the money. Has this happened to other folks besides me? I would like them to comment and advice me. Shouldn't a city Marshall take care of garnishments proceedings, if  I owe them an unpaid cash loan? If they are legal, and they seem to have all my personal information, why don't they hire a collection agency for the outstanding debt? I love to receive your comments. Thank you all and God bless you. Peace and Love, Andrew.

Got a call. I have no idea who it was.

I got I call today from a man that could barely speak english saying he was Officer Jeff Anderson from the Investigation department of Federal Governing.  He called me from the numer 724-320-6027.  He said I owed a payday loan $215 dollars and that if I didn't pay the money the police would be at my door to arrest me.   I called and found out it is a collection agency for something that happened over 10 years ago that I paid.  Just a scare tactic.

I got a call from this number back in December I forget the name the guy gave me, but he claimed to be a police officer saying that I owed a payday loan 1000 dollars and that if I didn't pay the money the police would be at my door to arrest me. Now what I found fishy about the whole thing is when they called it came up as 'Unknown Caller' on my caller ID, Now if this was really a police officer it wouldnt have came up as a unknown caller. I also did a reverse number lookup and it came up as 'Unlisted Number', thats how I knew this was a scam, but what really scares me is they have my ssn, bank info, address and name! I have closed my bank account after this happened and I also filed a report with my local police department.

SHE TOLD ME THAT IT WAS A SERIOUS MATTER AND THAT I SHOULD CALLED THEM BACK THEY TOLD ME I DIDNT SEND THEM $300.00 THEY WILL ISSUE AN WARRANT FOR MY ARREST I CALLED MY LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT THEY TOLD ME THAT IT IS A SCHAME NOT TO SEND THEM ANYTHING AND TO BLOCK THE CALLS SO FAR NOONE HAS COME TO ARREST ME

got the same message left on my phone at work saying his name was officer jeff anderson and he was calling with us crime department and I needed to call back today if I wanted this situation handled or something bad would happen to me.  I have got this call from mr brown last year I think they are just trying to scare us I hope I mean people these days have thousands in credit card debt and they are calling about a pay day loan that I paid.  Foreiners with a name jeff anderson come on now give me a break.  does everyone agreee?

Caller continues to call my place of employment stating he is calling from "US crime suspects dept". I consider thesr calls very harrasing.
My research has found that this is a number connected with some sort of scam. Caller's accent is very thick.

If there are additional steps i can take to force these people to stop calling me, please let me know.

Thank-You

i received this call this morning, from us crime prevention claiming we owed 815 and said that i had 2 hours to tell him if i wanted to cooperate or not! he instructed me that i better not interrupt him while he was briefing me on my husbands warrants. i said whatever!

Foreigner I could barely understand, claim he's calling from the US Crime prevention on a payday loan. I never had from this company.  The messed up part is he has my husband social, bank name, but no acct. information.  He was tryin to scam $500 from him through a credit/debit card. I hung up.

I got a call today from 707-635-0703, a man that I could barely understand left a message stating his name was Jeff Anderson and he was an officer from the United State Customs Department and I was the "prime suspect" in a matter to do with United States Homeland Security.  He needed a call right away!  First fo all I knew I hadn't done anything and for a guy I couldn't really understand to say he was Officer Jeff Anderson - red flag.  I saved the message and will go to my local law enforcement - thank GOD for this blog!!  Thank you

ITS THE FAKE DEBT COLLECTOR SCAM - LONG RUNNING AND KNOWN SCAM - ALL OVER INTERNET AND NEWS - PHONE NUMBERS CHANGE CONSTANTLY

Fake Debt Collectors ? Terrorizing Consumers

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5621205&page=1


MORE ON FAKE DEBT COLLECTORS
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-9141
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/call4action/17285785/detail.html
http://www.800helpfla.com/newsletter/2008/092008.html


http://www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam.cfm
Attorney General Darrell McGraw took the extraordinary step today of warning the public about a band of scam artists making threats to consumers who allegedly obtained Internet payday loans in West Virginia and across the nation. The consumers they threaten never obtained a loan at all or paid it off years ago.

Internet payday loans are short-term loans or cash advances, usually for 14 days, made over the Internet via interactive web sites and secured by an agreement authorizing debits of the loan and all fees owed from the consumer?s checking account. These loans typically charge interest rates ranging from 600-800 APR and are unlawful in West Virginia.

The scam artists, who speak English with a foreign accent, call themselves ?U.S. National Bank,? ?Federal Investigation Bureau,? ?United Legal Processing? and numerous other phony names. They refuse to disclose real names and addresses and are believed to be operating ?off the grid? from homes, automobiles, or from off shore locations or foreign countries, including India. Since the scammers have kept themselves purposely well hidden, thus far no law enforcement agencies have succeeded in locating or shutting them down.

The scammers typically pose as law enforcement officers, investigators, lawyers, and bankers and threaten consumers that they will be arrested for ?bank fraud? or other fictitious crimes unless money is wired immediately. They simultaneously scare and confuse consumers by using meaningless legalese gobbledygook phrases such as, ?We are downloading warrants against you? or ?We are filing an affidavit against you.? Consumers who don?t immediately fall for the scam are warned, ?Only God can help you now.?

The scammers almost always call consumers at work several times a day, and tell their supervisors, ?Your employee has committed fraud and is about to be arrested.? Such threats have proven unsettling even to the most savvy consumers and employers who suspect the calls are fraudulent.

Attorney General McGraw stated, ?Ordinarily my office protects consumers from fraudulent activities by seeking injunctions in court. But legal action cannot be taken until the scam artists can be located. Even then, it is unlikely that the persons behind the fraudulent calls and extortionist threats would obey a court order. In this case, the consumer?s best defense is to be armed with the knowledge of the scam so that all demands for money can be resisted, despite the false but scarey threats of arrest.?

McGraw added, ?Because the fraudsters make a special point of calling consumers repeatedly at work, employers must understand that the consumers are innocent victims of a criminal enterprise and cannot stop the calls from coming. I also wish to assure the citizens of West Virginia that my office will continue to do everything possible to locate and shut down the outlaw debt collectors.?

More information about this fraudulent debt collection scheme is available at the Attorney General?s website, www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam. Any consumers who have been threatened by these persons or wish to file a complaint about another consumer matter may do so by calling the Consumer Protection Hot Line, 1-800-368-8808, or by obtaining a complaint form from the Attorney General?s web site.

It's a debt collection scam. And all their threats are false and illegal.
This is a very active group of scammers, many of whom are calling from India (and probably other countries) and are in cahoots with a group of American pay day loan scammers. They attempt to extort money from consumers with a myriad of false and illegal threats, and alternately pose as debt collectors, federal and state law enforcement officers, lawyers and bankers. Their trademark is to use meaningless legalese gobblygook phrases like "We are downloading warrants against you" or "We are filing an affidavit against you." Another trademark phrase is to threaten the consumer with something like this ridiculous phrase: "If you don't pay then only God can help you."
Typical of many financial scams of this variety, they usually demand payment via Western Union or MoneyGram or credit card. They use any number of phony names such as US National Bank, Federal Investigation Bureau, US Legal Investigation Bureau, Hopkins Law Office, United Legal Processing, Morgan Associates, United Pay Services, National Processing, White Collar Crime Unit and many more.  These criminals also use many phone numbers from many area codes; they're probably using caller-id spoofing software and/or VoIP to disguise their real location.
The main thing to remember is that anytime someone calls you demanding money to prevent your arrest, or demanding your lawyer's name so they can sue you, it is ALWAYS a scam. No debt collector (let alone criminals posing as debt collectors) has the authority to have anyone arrested for anything. (And it's illegal to them to threaten such a thing.) And since these foreign dirtbags routinely impersonate law enforcement, it's also important to remember that American law enforcement officers aren't in the business of debt collection.  (Debt is a civil, not a criminal, matter.)
The bottom line is, these are criminals trying to steal your money.
A consumer posting a complaint about these same scammers at http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-718-831-7157 notes that 718-831-7157 is associated with an India-based "outsourcing" telephone bank.  Though a reverse search on WhitePages.com shows that 718-831-7157 is an unlisted land line in New York City, information on Debtbuyers.Com shows that that number is used by India-based Intellisourze. (Source: http://www.debtbuyers.com/debtbuyers.asp ) My guess is that it's a VoIP phone number.
This is another piece of the puzzle that fits in perfectly with other information about this scam. There are some reports on 800Notes that have suggested that the crooks behind this offshore scam are also the crooks behind the notorious Bass/Ellis Crosby & Assoc./States Predisposition scams in Florida and Georgia. The interesting thing is that the number of complaints on here about the US National Bank/US Legal Investigation/Federal Investigation scam skyrocketed *after* April 7, 2008 when Florida obtained a $1.3 million judgment against Ted Ellis Crosby, shutdown his operations and barred him from ever conducting debt collections in Florida (Read http://myfloridalegal.com/newsrel.nsf/newsrel ... 5257424005858A6 ) There's certainly a good chance that the crooks placing these calls from India are doing so on behalf of the American crooks behind the Crosby/Bass/States Predisposition scams.
Here's the contact information for the phone bank in India:
IntellisOurzE BPO
701, Sapphier, Nr. Cargo Motors,
C.G. Road Navrangpura,
Ahmedabad - 9. (Guj.) INDIA.
E-Mail: info@intellisourze.com
Website: www.intellisourze.com
A check on the domain name "intellisourze.com" shows that the website and name registration was created on May 8, just one month *after* the Crosby scams were shut down in Florida:
Domain Name: INTELLISOURZE.COM
Registrant:  Pragra Infratech Pvt. Limited.
Email:  ankur.ranpariya@pragra.com  
908, Aksaht Tower, Nr. ICICI Bank
Opp. Rajpath Club, S.G. Highway
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India 380054
Tel. +91.7926871353
Creation Date: 08-May-2008
Expiration Date: 08-May-2009
Domain servers in listed order: ns5.znetindia.com ns4.znetindia.com
(Source: http://whois.domaintools.com/intellisourze.com )
Though scam calls from these crooks have been going on long before May 8, the frequency of complaints about these calls increased considerably after Crosby was shut down in early April.
This is conjecture, but appearances suggest that Crosby and company were originally running a two-pronged payday loan scam operation -- with some calls being made from Jacksonville, Florida and other calls being made from a phone bank in India (and possibly other countries); then, after the Florida Attorney General shut down the Crosby scams in Florida, the Crosby crooks transferred most of their scam efforts to the India phone bank.

If you are targeted by these criminals, be sure to report them to all the following federal and state law enforcement agencies (most of which you can do online or over the phone):
1.    The U.S. Secret Service is responsible for protecting the country's financial infrastructure and payment systems from international and domestic threats. Call or write your local Secret Service field office to alert them to the details of this attempted extortion. The addresses and phone numbers for the local Secret Service field offices are listed at http://www.secretservice.gov/field_offices.shtml or in your phone book.
2.    Alert the FBI at https://tips.fbi.gov Be sure to tell the FBI that you are being targeted by extortionists over the phone. And if the crooks claim to be law enforcement or lawyers, officers of the court or bankers, be sure to include that information in your report.
3.    File a complaint with your local police. Most police departments will take a report over the phone.  Be sure to tell them that you're being targeted by an extortionist and give them all the details.
4.    File a complaint your state's attorney general, the contact information for whom is at www.wvago.gov
5.    File a complaint online with The Federal Trade Commission at https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en
If these crooks call back, promise them nothing, pay them nothing and tell them nothing other than that you know they're a scam and that you've reported them to law enforcement. (And be sure to report them to all the agencies above each time they call you.)

By the way, here's just a small sample of numbers used by this particular group of scammers. Read the reports and you'll see the same pattern time and again -- phony organization names, thick foreign accents, and oddly worded threats that are so melodramatic and ridiculous that it's laughable:

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-925-262-1327
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-678-954-6346
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-341-4004
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-856-831-0640
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-949-743-1140
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-410-505-8128
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-917-464-2534
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-210-858-6602
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-775-2121
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-949-743-1156
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-245-1402
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-245-0922
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-723-5572
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-2863
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-718-831-7157
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-2857
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-858-244-0444
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-954-678-9724
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-610-571-3252
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-310-909-8245
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-310-499-9983


Scam alert: Bogus debt collectors
By Leslie McFadden ? Bankrate.com
Monday, Aug. 3
Posted 2 p.m.
Bankrate reporter Leslie McFadden contributed this entry.
This scam isn't technically about credit cards, but it is scary enough to post a warning. The Better Business Bureau issued an alert today saying consumers across the country are getting phone calls from bogus debt collectors claiming default on a payday loan. Of course, the consumer needs to pay a large fee to avoid arrest -- as much as $1,000.
The caller poses as a lawyer, and may threaten extradition to face trial if the consumer doesn't pay up immediately.
What makes these calls alarming -- and perhaps convincing -- is that the perpetrators reference the consumer's personal information, such as the person's Social Security number, driver's license number, previous bank account numbers, home address -- even personal references.
"The amount of information they have is really troubling," says BBB spokeswoman Alison Southwick. She adds that the amount of data points to a possible security breach.
Spread the word to your friends and family: Don't give out personal or financial information to an unknown caller. Scammers can spoof Caller ID to display different numbers, so trust your instincts over technology.
The BBB offers these tips:
?    Ask the debt collector to provide official documentation which substantiates the debt.
?    Do not provide or confirm any bank account, credit card or other personal information over the phone until you have confirmed the legitimacy of the call.
?    File a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission online if the caller is abusive, uses threats or otherwise violates federal telemarketing laws or the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
?    File a complaint with the Better Business Bureau online if you believe a debt collector is trying to scam you.

I got a call this morning from that same number and my heart started racing because I thought something serious was going down, so now that I have read all of your blogs on this number I feel a huge relief! I threw the number in the trash and won't be returning that call! Thank GOD for the internet and google lol...

I got this very same call and it was a woman who I could barely understand stating she was from the U.S. Crime Suspected Division. She said if I didn't call back she wasn't sure what would happen to me. I have not called back nor do I plan on it. This sounds like a scam.

Variation of the Nigerian bank scam. They pretend that they want your help regarding $$$. Tell them you're onto them and HANG UP. These people almost never get caught, so don't waste your time.

"U.S. Crime suspected division?" That's hilarious. It's a very very safe bet that this is in fact a scam. They also go by Federal investigation department, Legal investigation department, American Credit services..I could go on. Just to be on the safe side, contact the three credit bureaus and place a 'fraud alert' on your credit report.
www.experian.com www.transunion.com www.equifax.com  Anyone who tries to tell you this is at all legit belongs in a padded cell.

I received a call from the same number.  I called a local police department and they said I should file a police report.

i received the same call this morning. He told me the same thing.. my responce was "OOHH that's sounds serious"

A gentleman who could hardly speak English claiming to be from "U.S. Crime Suspected Division" basically said "he didn't know what would happen to me if I didn't return his call.  

My guess is that it's some collection agency.  From something long time ago.