Scam.  heavily accented caller, once pressed as to why they called, he hung up.  very unprofessional and definitely a scam.

Same thing, heavily accented caller, once pressed for reason for call, hung up.  SCAM

They called and said I was chosen for home remodeling. I live in an apartment I told them. Then he said that's okay. I'm like wtf. I just said I live in an apartment. He got mad and started cursing me, I then told him to go and suck some dyck. He said okay and hung up. They called me twice. Each time I tell them to go and suck some dyck, each time they say okay and hang up. Have not heard from them since. I guess they're busy sucking dyck now. IDK.

Same just happened to me!

calls a minimum of 5 times a day
a***oles

Received 4 calls from this number in Pennsylvania today...have not answered it as I have no idea who it is.  I have received multiple calls from Florida saying they were the health department and if I had used certain medications or birth control I might be entitled to some money - I told them to QUIT calling me...now I get a different state and number!  Will it ever stop???

get calls from thus number often, I hang up or don't answer   India accent      get calls like this from different numbers every day and from different states, usually Texas, Montana, Pennsylvania and Florida

called 3 times already and its not 10 am yet.

calls 5 times a week. never leaves message.

They said  I was chosen for a home remodel. Scam for sure. BUT, they keep calling, and use different phone numbers.

I have requested to not be called by this number to no avail.  Stop calling me.

I answered and there was the telltale pause before someone with a heavy accent started speaking. I hung up.

They just started calling me and they call 7 or more times a day, I have the # on auto reject so I have not answered it... Its BS how they can do this...

These people keep calling for my 10 year old daughter and cursing me and threatening me and my family I want this to stop! If j don't answer they continue till I answer. They Change the number and never uses the same number! Please someone help me!!! Get this crap to STOP!

I have received calls from this number and about 5 or 6 others the last few days. I have spoken with the same person 3 times and this time he mentioned pay day loans. Another time it was medical supplies. You can tell it's a call center as there are many other voices in background and they do not always talk. Extremely frustrating.

I received a phone call from this phone number and they do not say anything so I just hang up. It should be a law against these people for harassment and trying to extort money from people.

Spam

did not answer

Repeated calls about being approved for a loan. When I ask when I applied for the loan, they tell me that they don't have this information.

This heavy-accented caller is probably a scammer/predator.  They said "your loan was approved" and promptly hung up once we inquired further as to his statement.

call and hangs up when I answer..... three times today

Exactly. Even if you never received any money from an online payday loan website, your information is out there to be hacked, stolen and sold on the internet black market.

This is a criminal extortion scam operating out of India. They are making the calls utilizing VOIP and the names of legitimate firms to make it appear the calls are originating from within the US. There is NO "company" or "debt" and you will NOT be arrested. They are harvesting and/or buying consumers' personal identifying information and you need to do whatever you can to protect yourself. This includes: Notifying the FTC: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/, placing fraud alerts with all three credit bureaus, notifying your bank and employer and letting these criminals know you are aware they are attempting to extort money for a non-existent debt and have alerted the authorities.

Read this investigative report ABC News did on this scam:

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 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.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/phantom-debt-co ... ory?id=16512428

I received a phone call from this number today at 1:25 p.m. eastern time and did not pick it up as I did not recognize it.  I've been receiving phone calls from 700 numbers for the past several days.  My friend just notified me that she too was receiving calls and that when she answers, she gets a threatening message about me and some legal documents they have for me to sign.  It is definitely a scam.  Neither she nor I have given these people any information and I'm not even sure how they got our numbers.  The only thing I can think of is that I applied for payday loans a few years ago and listed her as a reference.  I'm guessing this information was either hacked or sold illegally.