I received my first phone call from these guys at the beginning of the week? Very puzzled I called my husband and told him how they said I had a criminal case pending in California and summons would arrive soon for a court case in my home town. He also gave me the address to the court house in my city. My husband called them and they gave him the same story, something a collector would never do. I decided to dismiss the phone call and wait for something in the mail or this summons that was on its way. This morning I listened to my messages and this same loser had left yet another message with threats of jail.
He accuses me of a online pay day loan that was not paid??? At the beginning of the year I had looked around for a payday loan but could never get one because I was  not working. I had spent the last year going through treatment for breast cancer and had no income of my own. Theses guys are getting our information from these online applications and really think someone is going to pay them some money?????? I don't get it???? Scary?????

Company wouldnt tell me who was suing me, he transfer me to attorney in 2 secs both middle eastern  
Then Attorney would not give name or law firm name when I said was recording he hung up! There number is registered as telemarketing llc not law firm. I suggest everyone complain on fbi.gov this is a fraud deception to can ur info and get u to pay the debt with CC then use card #. In terrorist groups! Thank god 2020 did special a few months ago!

Just received a call from this name someone with a thick indian accent stating to be steve johnson from a law firm. He stated that i have outstanding payday loans and that i have a case against my SSN.

just got a phone call for this number. an left me a voicemail an that said if i didnt call them back by 5 today they was sending me to jail.. really they can't do that have been dealing with this for months? what should I do

Received a call from Steven Johnson this morning.  I was told I was being sued tomorrow in CA if I don't send them 500.00.  This is spam.  DO NOT fall for it.  I have been blocking there # everytime they call.

I got the same phone call yesterday on my cell phone !

I received a call from 714-709-4564 and a man named "Joe Anderson" said that he was an attorney representing the Lawrence Taylor law firm.  He said that I had an outstanding bad debt for a payday loan and that if I didn't authorize him to make a $500 charge to my debit card, that he would be filing "court papers" the next week.  He also mentioned that I would be arrested, I would lose my job, and that "bad things" would happen to me if I did not comply with his demand.

When he said this, I knew that it was a scam.  1) I have never taken out a payday loan.  2) According to the Fair Debt collection laws, a debt collector cannot threaten to have you arrested.  After he said all that he was going to do, I requested that he provide the legal documents to me (which you can do) and he said that he can only provide those records to my attorney.  So, I told him that I represent myself and that I would like to see those papers.  Again, he refused to share the documents with me.  At that point, I asked him if he could provide me with the address (even the web address) of his law firm and he refused.  I then asked him for his bar license number and where he attended law school.  Again, he refused.  At that point, he told me that he would see me in court and then he hung up.

After waiting a while and doing some research, I called him back and said that I was an attorney and that I wanted to speak with "Joe Anderson."  A different Indian man was on the phone claiming that he was Joe Anderson and when I told him that I was an attorney, he hung up.  I have since called them back several times from different numbers and they hang up on me every time.  Also, when I've called back, they have never answered the phone and said, "This is the law office of Lawrence Taylor."

So, don't let them scam you.  These people are clearly fishing for information and want to take your money.  Don't disclose ANY information to them.

Also, there is a legitimate law firm in California and I called them to report this.  They said that they have received hundreds of calls regarding these people posing as attorneys and they are actively investigating them.

I have been receiving calls from this same company, I have been paying back my payday loans and then i got a call from them, telling me that legal documents will be filled against me and that i must have my lawyer present, if not i can go to jail for 30 days.
So what you are all telling me is that they are a scam.
I asked them who is the Company and they would not tell me they said it is a payday loan. Then they wanted me to pay 150 every two weeks, when i told them no i can only afford 50 they told me that the company has already paid thousands of dollars towards this.
They told me i have untill friday to call them back
I know that payday loan companies will accept 50 a month because i am paying one off right now and it is thru the company i borrowed against.

they just called my phone with that number twice and then from private.........this happened before and they somehow got my work number and made my life a living hell here at work.......embarassing.

I also received a call to call 714-709-4564 ext 616. They told me to speak with a Joseph Henry. He had an Indian accent and stated that he was from the Law Office of Lawerence Taylor. I googled this law office and that lawyer is actually a DUI lawyer not a criminal lawyer at all! After reading all these posts I am for sure I am not calling these people back!

I have gotten several calls from this number from as early as 7:00 HST...which first of all..is against the federal collection laws.  Legitimate collections are done no earlier than 8:00 am their standard time, depending on the time zone.  These people call from the same number , yet under different company names.  They can't give me any inforrmation other than my name..address..email address...and phone number..They call about an online payday loan that doesn't exist!!...Being a former collector---I have called them on many things...and all the can say is that I will be arrested the next day for things they cannot even answer!!....

There are some SICK people in this world just trying to scam people for money they don't even owe....

someone named Joe Anderson,with a thick indian accent just called and said there was a case against my name and ssn number, I am not going to return the call because I do not owe anyone anything

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

Last Friday a man called my house and left a message with my mother.  He told her he was from the law offices of Lawrence Taylor and that there were criminal charges pending against me.  He left the phone number of 714 ? 709 ? 4564, extension 616 and told me to return the call to a man named Joseph Henry.  I was very surprised by this, particularly where I have recently filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy and wiped out all my debts.  I went to my attorney's office and showed him the information.  He called on the speakerphone and the man who answered had a thick accent, maybe India?  The man recited what sounded like some sort of script including threats of criminal charges attaching my wages at work.,  Losing my job being "behind bars."  Etc. when my lawyer asked him if he was a debt collector, he said he was not.  My lawyer told him but that did not make any sense where he was a third party collecting for someone that allegedly was owed money by the person he was calling.  It was right about this point in the conversation when the man disconnected the call.  We immediately try to call back.  The phone rang and rang, eventually went to a busy signal.  They never picked it up.  Some law office!

My attorney has told me that this is clearly a scam, what they are doing is highly illegal.  He told me that if they call me again.  I should try and learn their address, perhaps offer to send them money just to get the address and the name of the company, but certainly not actually send them a dime.  My attorney tells me that the chances are, they will just give a PO Box, that they know better than to give any kind of the address that could lead to their being discovered.  

If you get any calls from this company, you can rest assured that it is a total scam and whatever you do, do not send them any money!

My fiancé has had calls with the same claims from this number. Has anything happened to you over this or do u have any other info on it?

someone named Mike Anderson with a Indian accent called claiming to be from a Law office with the last name Taylor. I couldn't make out the first name. He said they have a criminal suit against my SSN and to call them to give my address to send the papers to. I'm not going to call back because I think this is a scam.

A man named Mike who had a foreign accent claimed to be from the Law office of Lawerence Taylor. He claimed they have a criminal suit against my social security number. I think it's a scam because I had this problem before. Has anyone else recieved calls from this number?