I had this eerie music on my answering machine. 004-081-5573 showed up on caller id, but when I googled it they said it's really some creepy guy at 716-200-4992.  Let's report this to the FCC, FBI, CIA, BBB.  Anyone who threatens people ought to be stopped NOW.  Who the F... are they to harass us?

i also got this call   can someone tell me if theres somehere to report this   thanks   m

Called and said I had to call and take care of an important criminal matter. When I got through to them, they said I had an unpaid online payday loan with Cashadvance America to the tune of $420 dollars. They said it was from 2008. They had my personal information. The thing is, I had no loans with Cashadvance in 2008. Mine were all this year, and were all paid off on time. When I pointed this out, they said they would send the police right over to take care of matters. I told them this sounded like some kind of scam to me. They said thank you very much, and hung up.

recieved a call from this number saying they were with the "Dept of Crimes" The man had an Indian/Eastern accent. He could berely speak english and was like " Please have him contact me, this is verrry important, it is about an ongoing investigation regarding a verry serrrious crime." I was like uh-huh, okay, Yah, sure, mmhmm...riggggght...okay, then I hung up. He called over ten times in one hour. He also contacted another family member of mine saying "if he did not call, you will regret it." sounds like a threat to me. What do I do? He gave me the phone number 716-200-4992 but my caller id says different. wtf? Creepy and wierd, you know its a scam. People are desperate.

This guy, Brian Taylor, called me NONSTOP!! So I finally answered him! He gave me a bunch of numbers like 716-200-499 and 904-222-8310... then fax numbers like 206-203-0067 and 206-337-8793. I was ready to give him $300 on Monday. But last time he said I owed $700, but as a settlement I can pay $300. I kept pushing the date on it because I wasn't sure about this. I asked him for my information all the time, he gave me my address and name, and I asked for what company and he said Cash Net, and then I asked him if he had my social, but he said his system couldn't be refreshed. So I was like, okay. But he called today, because I was going to pay them on Monday, and I asked him again for my Social, and he was like, that's not important and we are a real company!! I've taken out loans before through the internet, but I know I've paid them all. Then he said that they were in charged of all the Internet loan companies. It was weird that his name was Brian Taylor, because he was had an Indian accent, and his name sounded American. But maybe he was adopted. But he threatened me and said that they would take me to court and I would be fined $1000 if I didn't pay them back. So it was serious. I was about to send out a Fax that gave "Brian Taylor" authorization to take money out, until something in my GUT said to do more research. I found this website and another website, (http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/90422 ... qAjMBd7F9w)that stated that this guy was a scam. Thank you LORD for my gut feeling that this was fake!!

a man named tom brown called my work; and keeps calling me at my cell number; threatining to arrest me on serious charges;  even called my step dad in another state.  like a dummy i gave out my debit card number because ; he had me scared.. i am calling my bank now to stop the withdraw..  he gave me a fax # 2063378790;; to send a written permission to take out this amount of 200.00. and to include my ss number  marcia logsdon......i dont know if this is real... what do i do??

YOU FILED THE REPORTS CORRECT?   IF NOT DO IT NOW!!!  

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 who are posing as federal law enforcement. Be sure to give as many details as you can.

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://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01

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.)

I have received at least a half a dozen calls today, same outfit, two different people...on my work phone no less! The first was Jennifer McKenzie and the second was a man whose name I did not get. After I confronted Jennifer, the next three or four calls where from the man. He finally told me this was the Department of Crime Prevention. I'm thankful for this website because I was able to educate myself about these people. They are still calling but I am done with them. The first number on my caller id was 31107108942 which I did not answer and the message included a different number (716) 200-4992. All subsequent calls showed (256)665-9340. Pretty sneaky!

i also got this call,,,,,,,, i didn;t fall for it,, but they were good,,,,,,,,,,,   they also had all my information,,,i need to keep a close eye on my acct;s,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,i will also be filing a report with my local police dept,,,,,,,,,,

This person called me with a name, Brian Taylor, and he had a middle eastern accent. He left me a voicemail saying, "this regarding important documents..." I googled the number he gave me on the voicemail, but it was different from the number on my caller id, and I found this site. Thank you all for the clarifications, I will be sure to report this to my local law enforcement.

on august 25 2009 I received a phone call from Jason Hunt services claiming they were a fraud prevention investigation service and that I was a prime suspect in money laundering and they even gave me my own case number 006372.They also said they were filing my paper work in court at 11am on the 25 of August. They told me I would be arrested and sent to prision and they had all my personal information along with 2 of my friends phone numbers.They told me if I do not settle this debt by 12pm on the 25 that I will be arested and put in prision and lose everything.They would not tell me excately what company they were calling for but that it was a pay day loan company and that I need to take care of this debt.They also told me that Maryland is a zero tolerance state once they told me that I laughed at them and told them I will take my chances.The reason being Maryland is a zero tolerance state but that only has to do with drinking and driving nothing else.So if anyone receives phone calls from these people or this number just hang up on them they can not do anything it is a scam.Also if you live in Maryland in case you don't know if someone ever says that Maryland is a zero tolerance state that means drinking and driving nothing else.

I have very important updated information about this phone number and business listing. I have called this number several times in the past and always received an answer phase such as " Department of Crimes Pervention " today... I called the number again and this time they answered " Front Desk May I Help You " I told them that I was with the federal government and I needed to speak with there CEO. I was aksed to leave a message and someone will call me back. I was also given the physical address of the business: 101 Kingston Avenue Buffolo, New York 07001 and they also shared with me that they were a Debt Collection Agency. I had to take desprate measures to obtain somekind of information to work with. I will now report this information to the authorities listed in the last comments message. Remember this phone number is a Scam and a Debt Collection Agency trying to be sneaky about its collection efforts. Hopefully we can get them Shut Down! Don't call the number back and just hangup when they call you. Be safe!

this man aso called me and had my work number and knew people telling me if i didnt pay any money today i would be arrested i asked him what for and what company he wouldnt give me that information nor tell me when the transactions happened very rude indian acent and had the never to tell me if i dont understand english english is my only language. i reported to the police nad a fraud alert

I've received 4 calls from Jason Hunt at 716-200-4992 about someone that I used to work with. I have been told the same thing that this is a big legal mess and it's in my best interest to have her call him. I have asked what his company name is and was told Crime Prevention. I told him that I do not contact this woman and she does not work here and to remove my name from his file. He called me again and left another message. I will report this person.

got a call from this number and he said the same things to me! he yelled and told me he was going to arest me and harrased the people i work with someone need to stop this nut!

My cousin called me and asked me what I got myself into and of course I told her nothing why? She then told me that a Deputy Jason Hunt called and left a message saying that he need to speak with me as soon as posible because I was in a serious investgation and I was the main suspect in it, so she gave me the number I called it and he was going on and on but I couldn't understand what he was saying at first because of his accent. Then when I finaly understood what he was saying he told me that I had a warent put out for my arest because of theft because I took out a loan from Check-n0Go and didn't pay it off so they were pressing charges against me and that I was going to jail till I went to court. I was so upset cuz I have 2 little girls so went to Check-n-Go and the manager there told me that they don't ever get the law involved so I went on line and Googled the number and found this sight I an glad I printed it off and I am going to my local police to get help on how to stop this guy.... thank ya'll for putting this up

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-901-328-7180

Judging from the previous reports about this caller, it's a typical debt collection scam. As the other reports indicate, this caller claims he's with the "Department of Crime Prevention"; there is no such thing.

These type of crooks attempt to extort money from their victims with a myriad of false and illegal threats. They alternately pose as debt collectors, federal and state law enforcement officers, lawyers and bankers. And they use any number of phony official-sounding names such as US National Bank, US Legal Investigation Bureau, Hopkins Law Office, Morgan Associates, White Collar Crime Unit, Department of Crime Prevention, etc. They also crooks use caller-id spoofing software and/or VoIP to disguise their real location. And many of them are calling from overseas.

One thing to remember is that anytime someone calls you demanding money to prevent your arrest, 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 dirtbags routinely impersonate law enforcement, it's also important to remember that American law enforcement officers aren't in the business of debt collection.  What's more, debt is a civil, not a criminal, matter.

The bottom line is, these are criminals trying to steal your money. I suggest you do all the following (most of which you can do online):

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 give them all the details.

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://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01

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 few 800Notes links with reports about similar scams. Read the reports and you'll see the same pattern time and again -- phony official-sounding organization names, foreign accents (most of the time), and dramatic false threats of arrest and lawsuits.

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 who are posing as federal law enforcement. Be sure to give as many details as you can.

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://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01

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/1-410-505-8128
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-917-464-2534
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-210-858-6602
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-245-1402
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/1-925-262-1327
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/1-888-775-2121
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

and, many, MANY more.

Update on phone number (716) 200 4992. My uncle who is a sheriff called the number and got the same person with strong accent. When the man was asked what kind of business does he work for.. he failed to say anything but "who are you calling about?" its clear that this company is either a summons carrier or collection agency in buffolo, ny. There employee by the name of Jason Hunt has a very tacky-way of looking up personal information about you (via internet or some other source) and try to use it for a return call from you. He will try to scare you into calling him back. Do not return phone call from these people.... if they call you at home or work report the call to police and tell them these people are unknown to you and are making threats and now stalking which makes you feel unsafe. This will make the call more serious and it will start being tracked by computer and put on public record. We have notified the FBI (west coast branch) and according to them the matter is already being worked on. It sounded kinda serious. So, do not return there calls. If they call you simply hangup... when called back hangup again until they stop. They will say personal things about you... how they get the info is unknown to me. They will be delt with soon. No Worries.

I received a message on my phone that I need to call this number that it was an very important business matter that they had a legal document and if I did not call them back that they would take it that I was avoiding the situation.The person barely spoke english with an Indian/Eastern accent.  They also called to my work several times and spoke to a co-workier and told them I was not there and he said I know she is and I want to talk to her.  My co-worker transfered them to security.  They hung up and called again.

I had recevied a call from someone from this phone number by the name of J. Hunt. He started to tell me that someone I knew was in a legal mess and the person should call him back on this number. It sounded like a debt collector seeking information. We called the number back requesting that the person whom answered the phone tell us about the company. The person would not say anything and asked who are we calling about. I said again can you please tell me what kind of company is this? He refused to give any info. They answered the phone like this... Dept. of Crimes Pervention.. may I help you?? The number is based out of New York. Be careful when calling anyone at this number and never give any of your personal information out to them.