Left a message saying he was George Young calling for inspector Jeffry Hall regarding interstate checks that have bounced. They also called my work(!) and said the same thing! Anyhow, i called back both the number he gave me 716-3325980, as well as the number on my caller ID  716-335-9320.  There was no answer at either place, but since i do not, and have not had a checking account in years, i tend to think it's a scam.

This is a scam and you are part of it, you and your company are a bunch of sperm burping trolls...

Received a phone today from "Jeff Hall" saying he was from "Chex Systems" and I had a pending case against from internet check fraud. First, Chex Systems does call customers, they are just a reporting agency from banks who have customers that have been charged of. Secondly, "Chex Systems" is not "Chex Systems" anymore they go by a different name. Third, I work for a bank and know what these scammers are doing is dow right ILLEGAL. Protect yourself, ask for verification in writing, don't be intimidated by these fraudsters. Personally, unless I receive something in the mail that is legit I don't give these idiots the time of day. And anyone who posts here that believes what they are doing is right needs a wake call to reality. Fair Debit Collection Act is how to protect yourself, don't be fooled.

Hank Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953), born Hiram King Williams, was an American singer-songwriter and musician regarded as among the greatest country music  stars of all time. He charted eleven number one songs between 1948 and 1953, though unable to read or write music to any significant degree. His hits included "Your Cheatin' Heart", "Hey Good Lookin'" and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry".

Williams died at age 29; his death is widely believed to have resulted from a mixture of alcohol and drugs.

These guys are not scammers, i thought the exact same thing but now Im getting sued! trust me, its either you go to court and handle it expensively, or they settle for WAAYY less than lawyer fees alone. i learned the hard way, take my advice, settle with these guys first, they sent me a legit letter clearing me of my debt, for good! im so relieved.

You need to shut the hell up!...you must be one of the scum bag debt collectors! I understand if people are being called because they need to pay a debt. But low lives such as these jerks are breaking the law by making threats to people.

It is a scam,they violate national laws by the use of defamation of character and terroristic  while trying to gain information by asking questions to make you verify info they already have,and asking for more info to add for an identity theft scam. They try to catch you of guard with quick,loud and threatening questions so you answer without thought. Typical scam on elderly. Be careful and never verify anything on the phone,internet,or mail if you don't know where it is coming from. If it is legit it will be put in collection and you can protest it. (also by law they have to allow you to protest it and it can not hurt your credit until resolved). Trans union ,equifax,experian are three you can get a free report from once a year. We receive these calls by auto dialer all the time because we have multiple line at our center. As soon as we advise them their being taped they disconnect instantly. Speaking of instantly Instant Cash USA 1-716-203-1912 *Jack Woods* is one of the major callers. Ps. Dont judge people on here their looking for help, and how do we know that they dont have people on here making comments. Think----then react.

its not a scam u f***in scumbags pay your debt

Wow, so my wife isnt the only one huh? My wife got what  considered to be a very suspicious phone call yesterday. Actually the call came through on my Mom's cell phone. I forget the gentleman's name but he called my mom's cell phone leaving a message for my wife with regards to her being investigated for internet check fraud. Gan you say...kick rocks? First of all, my wife has not owned a checking account in atleast 5 years. Secondly we received not notification in the mail with regards to this matter. My wife has not made any internet purchases in about 2 years, we both use prepaid debit cards for online purchases, never online checks. we dont even pay our mortgage online. Yeah, I think they better kick rocks and keep moving because people arent  as easily victimized as these scammers believe us to be.

Got a call from this number.  The guy identified himself as Office Jeffrey Hall, and that he was a sheriff with orders to 'pick me up'.  Also, got a guy named James Garcia on the line (voice sounds the same).  Very abusive on the phone, and would not let me get a word in.  The, they claimed they are with Chex Systems.  I do not have any outstanding 'bounced' checks, but they refused to even discuss it with me.  I demanded that they stop calling me or my family (they had previous called my son, saying I was in big trouble), and that any discussion needs to be in writing via the mail.

INVESTGATOR CALLIHAM- LEFT A MESSAGE ON A WEDNESDAY SAYING I HAD 2 PENDING CHARGES FOR REFUSAL AND NEEDED TO CALL BACK BY FRIDAY OR A SUMMONS WOULD BE ISSUED THRU MY COUNTY COURT HOUSE FRIDAY MORNING. GENTILMAN WHO CALLED HAD MY FULL ADDRESS. STILL A LITTLE CONFUSED HOW HE FOUND OUT MY LANDLINE NUMBER. A NUMBER NEVER GIVEN OUT BUT FOR COMPUTER PURPOSES ONLY. DID CALL BACK AND HAD NO ANSWER BUT A VOICEMAIL DID COME ON WITH INVESTIGATOR CALLIHAM'S VOICE AND HIM IDENTIFING HIMSELF ALSO ON IT!! AWAITING FOR MY CALL BACK!! FOR ME THIS IS ALL BULL. I HAVE NO ACTIONS ON MY BEHALF TO BE CHARGED FOR!!! I LIVE IN PA THE NUMBER 716-332-5980 IS COMING OUT OF BUFFALO NY NEVER BEEN THERE EITHER!!!

Um these people are scammers, for one I noticed that guy that leaves you the message doesn't even get his name right, he called my phone for my sister and said he was George Young when he called her work he said he was John Young. The second thing is that they said she was being investigated for Federal Charges but said the papers were filed in our County Court, you CANNOT file federal charges in a Superior Court. And the next thing is that they didn't even cite the Civil Code right. Not to mention there is also a code (cannot think of the citation at the minute) that every debt collector trying to collect money from you must give you written notification and at least 15 days to respond no more than 90 days to respond. To top it off she called the District Attorney and they said there were no cases with her name on it. The most fake debt collectors are the ones that try to scare you, that is how they scam you. Who really wants to go to jail? So you pay to prevent that. Be more thorough and know your rights. Whoever you are that said they are ligit...you are probably being paid by them to say that cuz you are bogus.

No message left.

Hank Williams (September 17, 1923 ? January 1, 1953), born Hiram King Williams, was an American singer-songwriter and musician regarded as among the greatest country music  stars of all time. He charted eleven number one songs between 1948 and 1953, though unable to read or write music to any significant degree. His hits included "Your Cheatin' Heart", "Hey Good Lookin'" and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry".

Williams died at age 29; his death is widely believed to have resulted from a mixture of alcohol and drugs.

its not a scam u f****n scumbags pay your debt

PROTECT YOURSELF!  IMPORTANT INFORMATION YOU MUST READ ? HOW THE SCAM WORKS AND WHAT AGENCIES TO REPORT THEM TO
LONG RUNNING AND KNOWN SCAM ? ALL OVER INTERNET AND NEWS FOR ALMOST 2 YEARS NOW

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.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2010/01/ks_debt_collection.html   latest release of information on this scam

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
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-771-9249   Scammer posting here as GARY and GARRY JONES
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-866-860-4509   Scammer posting here as Mike Henderson
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-212-500-0839   Scammer posting here as Ricky
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-201-244-7722   Scammer posting as Carole, David Brown and Amanda
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-626-200-4646   Scammer placing false postings at this new number as silshan kanniue and Tina ? preparing a new number to use.
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-424-354-4270   Scammer placing false postings as Rose
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-785-4479   Scammer posting as Robert
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-909-327-4870   Scammer placing false postings as Marry
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-646-274-1143   Scammer placing false postings as Karen Miller
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-561-300-8018   Scammer placing false postings as Marco Polo (real original)
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-877-226-7488   Scammer placing false postings as SAM, David S
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-706-7463   Scammer placing false postings as George
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-209-349-7382   Scammer placing false postings as Towanda Robinson, Shannon Walsh, Jack Dawson and Cynthia
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.

INVESTIGATOR JEFFREY HALL