Sounds like East Indian callers who claim that references given on an account are liable for $5,000 in lawywer fees for the account.
When I called the number asking what was the name of their company, they said it was not a company, it was....? I could not understand.
When I asked why they were threatening people given as a reference with $5000 in lawyer fees, they hung up.
Does anyone know who this is?
I have contacted the FBI and I am waiting for a follow up as to what I can do.
They even had a social security number and called my son-in-laws work place!

Anyone knows who this is?

I received a call from this number at work on my vm.  The guy "Rick Martin" told me that he needed to hear from me or my attorney or he could not do anything to help me.  Further into his message he said "I pray for your children if these charges are filed against you." He left about a 3 minute message.  He's called several times, always at my job and each message starts with "This is the last warning."......

I just saw the virtual tour of the place. It's quite nice.

File a complaint with the FTC at www.ftc.gov,contact the FBI at www.tips.fbi.gov (I think that's the address).  Also, if you google the address as one poster did, it's a house for sale in Campbell CA.
I think they get your info if you've ever applied for or inquired about payday loans on the internet. That's how they got mine I think.

A caller with a thick East-Indian accent called my house around 6:40 am on Tuesday,July 28,2009 when I was getting ready for work and stated he is Mr. Brown from the Crime Montering Center. I noticed that he is using a local area code number. He said calling from a law firm and he represented National Advance Payday loan with US Federal Bank. He said he filed a legal case against me on behalf of this company. He went on to verify my information of the name where I bank and my email address. I asked him what County did he filed the lawsuit in, but all he can tell me is Campbell.

I told him I never heard of this payday company and never took a loan from them.  He said he has a case against me and want me to pay $750 immediate and also, asked the name of my lawyer.  I told him I do not have one and he told me then to come to settle this case face to face in his office is Campbell today. I told him I will not definitely travel 200 miles from my city to deal with something that I am not familiar with and he can send all information to my address and do not call me again. He keeping on said he does not needs to provide anything in writing because the contract through the internet is paperless. I hung up on him, but received 2 more calls after that which I did not answer.  

I am glad that I'm not alone in dealing with these jerks. Can give information on how to handle these scammers? Where can I file a report on them? How did these people get my information?

according to intellius.com, that address is a 3 bedroom house in Campbell CA.  So unless this is a lawyer/debt collector that works from home, I think it's safe to call it a scam.

a chinese accent person uses the ff;no. to intimidate and harass 415-200-0263,757-648-7235,714-333-2981,818-338-5053,941-961-8518.Hopefully God will forgive his earthly ambitions now that the end time is near.

I have recevied numerous calls from this number.  They started coming to my cell phone several weeks ago.  There was first a verifying phone call from on outside of US area code, the only reason I answered the phone was because I thought it was from a friend of mine in Istanbul.  The caller said nothing then hung up.  A couple minutes later, a call came in from 941.961.8518 from a dude with a Nigerian accent named "Alex".  I did not answer that call but he left the threatening message about "God help my children" blah, blah, blah.  Well I don't have any living children so I knew it was a scam.  He left the return call number of 714.333.2981 which I didn't even bother to call back. I immediately reported the scam to ATT and Verizon (as the 941 number is a Verizon Wireless number) and hoped the calls would stop.  Well unfortunatey, they called me every day at different times of the day for a about a week and a half.  I finally answered the phone the last time I got the calls and told them to stop calling me immediately.  The jerks started calling non stop until the point it hit about 20 calls in less than an hour.  I ended up having to change my number with ATT to stop the calls.  So I thought it was over.

Last week, I got a call from another department at work (I work for a very very large non for profit nationwide organization) saying that a woman in the building started receiving non stop threatening calls for me.  It was the same "Alex" dude.  He keeps calling her and they are going to the FBI with the information.  She has told him he has the wrong number (of course she did not give him my correct number) but he still keeps calling her.  Then a couple days after that, my mother, who lives 3,000 miles away from me, started recieving calls from the same "Alex" dude.  Same threatening nature.

This is so freaking annoying.  I hope these guys are stopped soon.  I cannot have others start changing their numbers because of me.  What is worse is the dude has my birth last name, which is different from the last name I go by now.  How on earth did they get my information????

It's a scam. Google FDCPA and you will find plenty of sites that explain your rights. These people are overseas, the info they give you is eronous and they never have given me any information that I can verify. I call these people every day to waste there time and pry new info from them. Ask these people for proof of who they are and if they will not provide proof or documentation of the claimed debt, then you can be sure it's not legitimate.

Hi all -

I am so releived after reading all of these posts - I took it upon myself to google a number that I have been getting phone calls from stating I owe them money for a pay day loan they demanded 750.00 dollars by Aug 3 09 or my references will be in a financial mess.  I keep getting calls from Alex saying he is with Jack Brown law firm from 714-333-2981.  I kept asking who is was with never would tell me or send me any paper work - he was calling all day and finally i had to set up a pre pay visa for funds of 750 to be paid that day and that i had to send a notorized letter by the 2nd of Aug before the payment was deducted.  Can anyone of you tell me that this is for certain a number from the scammer list?  He threaten jail and has already been harrassing my mother and sister - what do I do?
Thanks for any advice

I recieved a call from this number on 07/20/09 they also mentionioned I borrowed money from a payday loan. They had all my info even my daughters name they said if I didnt come up with the money the sherriff would arrest me and my daughter tommarrow. I tried calling back but the phone line is always busy. I'm scared they will come after me or my daughter if I don't pay.

I again received a call from a "alex", claiming to be there senior attorney. I posted here before abouth this company on 7/15/09. I work for a collection agency so you can imagine my surprise that one, I owe anyone, that second, I have a supposed attorney calling me threatening legal action, arrest, and contacting my employer. I asked for this 'alex" Bar # and law firm information and he refused. Again people, now your rights, ask questions, and ask for proof of the debt. If they cannot supply it or claim arrest, legal action, etc, they are probably not legitimate. Don't be fooled or bullied by these people.

So I got a JUST got a call from the same people.... b*****ds! They have EVERYTHING including social security number. I answered but couldnlt understand the rude person so I told him sorry and hung up.  I am out of the country so I preferred not to waste my money talking to someone I didn't know. PLUS I had no idea what he was talking about because I couldn't understand a freaking word he was saying.  919912...showed up on my cell but they told me to call back the 714 number which I did after checking my voicemail.  He left me a message reading out my entire social security number and address, name of business and then repeated all of the information again. I immediately called back to receive a busy signal. Def some sort of scam!

I was called in reference to a 500.00 payday loan. This so called lawyers assistant who name is Brian Rich.  He said his senior attorney who name was Darrick Johnson was handling the case.  I had one hour to get the appropriate paperwork and money together to pay back a now 1095.00 dollar loan.  He told me that all this info would be sent to my work for the boss to see and i would probable be fired.  What a dumb a**, So i called my bank to verify that something crazy did not happen.  and of course there was no deposit.  dont fall for it folks..... I have tried to call them back to give tehm a piece of my mind but it is always busy

I received a phone call from the same number that everybody has on this posting. The male subject that I spoke with claimed to be named "Eric Fsonseka" he said that I had a payday loan that I had not paid. I was concerned because I have obtained a payday loan in the past however, I thought that I had payed it off. He was very convencing, he said that if I did not either pay for it now that I would be facing legal action as of the following day.

I told him that yes indeed I had obtained a payday loan and that if it wasn't paid for that I would pay it I came pretty close to giving him my debit/credit card information luckily I did not have it on me. I asked him to give me his number so that I could call him back, he said that I first needed to type a letter of authorization giving the "creditor" permission to withdraw or charge $750.87 as opposed to $500.00 that the original amount was discussed.

After a couple of hours I received a second call, I tried to call them back but the line was busy. Is this a civil or a criminal issue and what can be done?

I too received a call from these guys. I asked to have proof of debt fax, emailed or mailed to me. The claimed they didn't have to provide me with anything. He then sd he worked for a law firm and they have filed legal action against me. I asked why call me if you have already filed against me. Couldn't understand his answer becuase of thick accent. I asked to speak with an attorney, was transfered to a Victor Gibson. I asked for his law firm and bar # and sd I would only pay once I verified his information, he gave the following:

Crime Monitoring Center
1432 Hoffman Ln
Campbell, CA 95008
Bar #: 02573-640A

This information is false, the address goes to a home for sale, google it yourself to see. This is a scam and they are not to be dealt with. The voice mail I received violated FDCPA 7 times alone. Know your rights, ask questions, ask for proof of debt and if they don't, then you know they are not legitimate. I work for a collection agency and these guys are nothing but con artists.

Sorry!  Here's a better link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl7bj2EShp8

http://www.challengedebtcollectors.com/videos ... -the-FDCPA.html

I just found this site that has videos of recordings from these scammers.  Very interesting!  I recognized "Stanley's" voice, but his name was "Peter".  I know that their voices all sound alike, but this one I could detect because he has a slur when he talks.  This video is just another verification of their violations of the FDCPA and that their threats are pointless.

GOT A CALL FROM THIS GUY SAYING THAT I OWED A LOAN COMPANY $500. I HAVE NEVERED BORROWED FROM ANY LOAN COMPANY, DON'T NEED TOO. WHEN I TOLD THEM TO SEND ME A COPY OF THE LOAN AND WHO I TALKED TOO, THEY HUNG UP. WHEN I CALLED THEM BACK I USED A FAKE NAME, PHONE NUMBER AND SOCIAL AND THEY SAID THE SAME THING. I KNEW IT WAS A SCAM. NOW I CALL THEM EVERY DAY TO HARRASS THEM. THESE GUYS ARE TOTAL JERKS.

This is just another one of hundreds (and perhaps even thousands) of numbers these overseas payday loan debt collection scammers are calling from:

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-9141:

It's a scam, and all their threats are false and illegal.  The bottom line is, these are criminals trying to steal consumers' money.

Here are a few news reports and government advisories warning consumers about this scam:

ABC News:  http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5621205&page=1
West Virginia Attorney General:  http://www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam.cfm
WTAE TV4, Pittsburgh:  http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/call4action/17285785/detail.html
Florida Commissioner of Consumer Services:  http://www.800helpfla.com/newsletter/2008/092008.html

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 gobbylgook 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, Christian Nicholas & Associates, US Federal Bank, Sonic Bank, Hopkins Law Office, CashNet, 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.)

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 (
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.naag.org

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/1-336-553-3965
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-909-6789
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/1-310-909-8245
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

...and, many, MANY more.

Caller said I was in default of a payday loan.  I told him I never have gotten a payday loan.  He did spit out some of my info, but it must be a scam.  He said he would take legal action against me.  I told him to bring it on, the my lawyers would rip them alive and they would end up owing me money for me and my lawyers loss of time.  What idiots.

I got the same call and I returned the call. Mine was a Mr. Jackson and he was very rude. He was stating that there was a loan that had not been repaid, which I have...I don't know what's going on...this is the number that showed on my cell phone: 919912799100

I did try to return the call to let them know that I do not want to be contacted at work. I tried to call 4 times throughout the day and line was busy every time.

caller named "alex" called and left a voicemail message at my place of employment stating that the second I get this message I or my attorney need to contact him at 714-333-2981 and if I do not return the call the only he could do was bid me "good luck". Who is this person?? If he already has my work number what other identifiers does he have???