Some Indian dude left me a threatening message that if I didn't call back, "Good luck to you from all that will rain down on you."  Freak!!

I just received a call from this number and was titled unknown caller and said my job will be subpoened and gave some reference names and was very rude and would not give the came of the business who hired them. He said he was Attorney _____ Cooper. Did not catch the first. The first guy that I talked I could not understand he had a very heavy accent. But Mr. Cooper was supposedly the senior attorney. He was very rude and because I was asking questions and trying to understand what this was about he said I was getting smart. I want to know who these %&$%^^?!!! are.

These idiots called me Sept and Oct of 2009 from 717 638 7276 and a couple of other numbers with thick India accect.  Same story, wanting me or my attorny to call them back, which they have a warrent out for my arrest on a unpaid loan.  I believe that these people are legally obilgated to produce a loan contract that I signed to the loan, a bill with payment options, and a letter saying when the loan was paid off.  If they can't produce them, they have no right to say have a warrent to get money out the people they call.

rcvd call from mark murphy who has a thick Indian accent. mr stated he is a federal law officer who is sending me to jail for an unpaid loan that I never had. this is not my first type of call.  I have filed a restraining order with the state of VA which is where I live as well as a report with CA which is where the cell tower is for this fraud ring.  If you receive these calls they are fraudlant and people are aware of it.  Keep a log of all the calls and notifiy your local police.  Keeping a whistle handy will help as well.  Next time you get the call blow the whistle into the phone.

Received the same call and same threatening voice mail. Got 7 of them yesterday from a different area code. When I called them back, they told me I was being sued by a law firm but wouldn't give me any information unless I confirmed my personal information (he had the last 4 of my social). When I refused to confirm or deny anything until they provided me with more information (about who I was being sued by and who they were), I was hung up on. The other number I was called from was 424-354-4315. Mans name was "Michael Johnson" but had a very thick Indian accent.

Do not give any info.. This call are Indian people calling you to f*** with with you... That you owe money .. PLEASE DON NOT GIVE ANY PERSONAL INFO .. THIS IS FRAUD..
JUST F*** WITH THEM BACK OR HANG UP ..ANOTHER NUMBER IS 496-909-8001

received another phone call and was threatened to have my attorney call or else
this is just a scam

filed another police report

I received several phone calls from this number today on both my cell phone and home phone.  They did not leave a message on my cell phone.  I called the number back because I recongnized the area code because I have family in Central Pennsylvanie, when I called back, it said that the number was disconnected.  Seems like a repeat of another call I received earlier in the week from not even a complete number 810 676 161.  I was asked to call back to 310 598 1752.A woman with a thick Indian accent answered and transferred me to a man who had a lot of my personal information including social security number, name of my employer and name of my bank.  They said that they were with the US Government, Federal Legislation and Financial Accountability Association.  When I asked for a street address, they give an non-exitant address in Los Angeles, when pressured, they hang up.  They said that they will ruin the lives of my friends and family and they will come to my work to issue an subpeona because I'm being sued for an unpaid debt, not true!  They said if I'm not in LA Superior Court by Monday, they wish me luck.  I just blocked all long distance calls from my home phone number, now trying to do the same on my cell phone number.  Those of you that this has happened to...what did you do?

yesterday it was a 810676-161 number but same person...called every 5 mins all day long. leaving voicemail telling me vital importance and I needed to call back immediately or too bad for my future. Starting at 830 this morning the 717 number calls, same person with thick accent telling me same thing with several voicemails. really tired of phone scammers.

since april 2009 these people call over and over.  they call for a few weeks, then i do not hear from them again.  they have definately gotten into computer software from somewhere.

i have now recorded 9 different phone numbers they have used.

do not tell them anything, if you are being taken to court for any issue, something in writing must be presented to you and normally it will come in the mail certified.

this is such a nusiance,

do not given them any info at all

I received 7 phone calls from this number. Each one was someone with a thick Indian accent. I did my best to insult them and make them feel lie the scum that they are each time they called.

Received 5 phone calls from this number today. The first 2 were sent to voicemail and 2 threatening messages were left for me stating "If you do not call me back, I feel bad for your future". When I called the number, an indian man answered the phone and claimed he was from the "federal legislation" and even swore at me when i refused to confirm any information. He said federal charges were filed against me for $8,000 for an unpaid loan (not true) and URGED me to pay off the debt over the phone... "or else". FRAUD NUMBER!!!

I received a call from a PA Number Instructing me to call this number threating me that I had Federal charges Against me for Check Fraud and theft by deception and that I was going to Jail what bothers me is none of this is true I spoke to my Payday loan carried and it is not true they have the name of my bank and threatned to go to Social Secuirty.. All they would tell me is they were a law firm and said I should have received Via email my supeona and my charges which Is not true and the law does not work that way. At the end they said to me good luck with whatever comes down on me.... They Have way to much personal info the incoming call came from 717-638-7276 and call back was 949-202-4689

Just had 4 calls in a row from this number on my cell phone. I immediately tried calling it back from another phone and the operator voice recording said the number is disconnected and is no longer in service. This is probably another one of the payday loan scams.

We received SEVERAL calls on BOTH of our cell #'s from a man that had an extremely prominent accent. He was very rude & started yelling at me, demanding money for an unpaid payday loan (which does not exist). He tried to convince me that I am going to be sued by our federal government & that I would be expected in a CA court Monday morning @ 9:00 AM. He also gave me a call back number = 1-949-202-4689. I was instructed to ask for "Mark Evans." Needless to say, the original number they called me from was disconnected. So, I called the given # several times here is what I got out of it:
Company Name: FBI Legislation Association
Employees that I spoke to: Joe Brown, Nathan Rice & Mark Evans

I work in a fraud dept. please be cautious if you get a call from these people and do not disclose any info to them. If they recite your social to you please call the 3 credit bureaus and place a freeze on your identity so that they are unable to open accounts in your name.

I just got a voicemail from this number. It was for a friend of mine (old friend). They have called 7 times today. It was a VERY threatning voicemail saying that if she didn't call back then he wishes her good luck when it comes her way.

My call sounds just like these above. I made a report of all the harassment to the FBI Internet crime website http:www,ic3.gov
I also reported it to my local sheriff's office. Protected all my accounts because they had all my personal info. Next step I will order my credit report to see if any new accounts have been opened in my name. My daughter called them back on her phone and told them they were being reported to the FBi. Mr. Peterson asked for the number. She told him that he should get it off the internet since he got all the info from there.  He also asked what number she was calling from. She told him that he was so smart then why didn't he have caller id? These guys sounded Indian to me and the first time to her on the phone but when she called back the second time after he hung up, he tried a Japanese accent or to sound Asian.He informed her that she was uneducated and hung up on her again.I was also contacted at 805-322-4573.

Did anyone else contact the authorities.

Thank you for putting this website and phone numbers out for all to see it is 4am in the morning and i have been receiving these phone calls every morning at 2-2:30am isevin Peterson then decides after that because i would not give him any info and threatened to call the police has left 15 vm messages on my phone and when i returned his call again he consisitently hangs up and as soon as i get my new born baby back to bed ge starts leaving another 15 threatening messages as he laughs on my vm.  I will be in contact with my attorneys in the morning (being i live in hawaii) and any real attorney knows time differences.  These scums will pay!  Again, without your website or postings i would not have been able to obtain all of this info... thank you again!!  will try to get a few hours of sleep now.

Good job on getting out the info on these thieves. A co-worker of mine just got a series of calls that sound like the same outfit at work. What scumbags! Caller ID showed 310-598-1661, which reverse lookup shows as a landline in Beverly Hills, CA. I gave her a printout of your message as well as an entry at Rip-Off Report and the FTC's FAQ on debt collections.

I get calls from Debt Settlement companies.  I asked for the floor manager and I explained that I had put myself on https://www.donotcall.gov/register.  Here you can list all your phone numbers including cell phones.  That weeded out alot of calls.  When you give a credit application somewhere, leave the phone number blank since Equifax, Trans Union, and Experian make it available to anybody who pulls files and pays for that little extra service.  Also, do a letter to each of the bureaus and have them include an entry on your credit report to not make available pertinent details.  This is your privacy right.  No charge.  It takes a month to be purged from the systems, but it works.  

People who have pulled your vital information, without your consent, are liable.  The way they get around that, is to simply have you verify what they have pulled.  In a court, they can say you allowed the pull.  So, simply ask for the floor manager and he will purge your phone number from his system within a week or so.  Often times, you can't even get that far and you are left with a bogus phone number.  Use *62 on your phone and list those qu*** numbers and they will get a recorded message should they call again.  That is a service included now on most home numbers.  Don't put vital information on the internet.  When I want something on the internet, I call first and then have the get their first and last name and where they are located.  Go to:  www.ussearch.com and do a preliminary find of that person.  If it jives, then proceed with your purchase.  No charge.  Most legitamate companies know if you do a debit/credit card payment, you the consumer, have at least 60 days for rebuttal.  A chargeback costs upwards of 25.00 per incident just to reconcile with you.  So, they are normally very cooperative.  The customer is always right and they want to continue doing business with you.  Profitable internet leads are difficult to obtain, so they want to maintain a good relationship.  

Inexperienced telemarketers are usually forceful, rude, or short.  They have heard so much nonsense throughout the day and they are on a tight commission setup.  So many calls, produce so many leads, and so many dollars.  

If they are threatening, play along and call their bluff.  You've played poker, play 'em.  Encourage their continued involvement with you.  All the while creating a wave file to be later used against them.  You can do this by using MagicJack and record all incoming/outgoing calls.  Don't worry about the state to state stuff.  Build a file.  Then, send the attachment to the States Attorney for review and followup.  They get tons of calls and emails regarding everything imaginable.  

I prefer to reverse the situation on the deviant callers.  As before, once you have their full name and location in the states, use Equifax.com and jam up their credit for a minimum of 7 years.  I pay $50/mth for access to equifax.  Its amazing what you can get for 2.65.  Although, I'm a legitimate businessman, I use my resources to cover myself.  Once, listed as a creditor on THEIR credit and having forwarded it to Access Capital Credit for collection, they will receive calls from the collection agency on my behalf for my inconvenience and loss of company time.  Its an easy fight that way and you are protected and insulated.  

So, the next time you get a strange call, be coy, professional, calm and collective, be wary of divulging any confirming conversation and record it. Build a file and use that computer of yours.

Just received the same call last evening, threatend to have the FBI come to my place of employment and arrest me and also stated that the call was being recorded for my court hearing in California. The numbers that were on my called ID was from 3 different numbers 717-638-7276, 310-598-1647 and 317-664-5034, the gentleman stated that his name was David Cooper and his associate's name was Kevin Peterson and they were attorney's for Cash Connect from their Federal Legislations Dept. in the "Back Office". I am definitely making a complaint with the BBB.

Just got a call "again" from a Tim Robbins, but, he sounds Indian. Very, very, extremely threatening against my family. Call, my husband's job also. He said he was going to "blacklist" my husband's SS #. Called talked, hung up, called talked, hung up, on and on. Until I block the number.

I just want to update from my last message- this number has now called 8 times, left tow message and a text message - the woman calling is indian and not asian as I thought before, Crystal Davis.  I also found this useful information on another number - 817-231-7416 - from ACS another scamming company that is constantly being reported.

At LONG last...these scammers are fimally getting the national attention they so richly deserve:

Full release from the Better Business Bureau:

Widespread Harassment from Phony Debt Collectors Raises Concerns of Mass Data Breach, Warns BBB Scammers may have Social Security and bank account numbers, home addresses and employer information

Chicago, IL ? August 5, 2009 ? The Better Business Bureau is issuing an alert about phony debt collectors that are calling consumers nationwide and claiming that they have defaulted on a payday loan and will be arrested if they don?t pay immediately. Claiming to be lawyers, the scammers say they are with the ?Financial Accountability Association? or the ?Federal Legislation of Unsecured Loans? and are equipped with a disconcerting amount of personal information about their potential victims.

?Because the scammers have so much information about potential victims, the BBB is concerned that this may be the result of a data breach,? said Steve J. Bernas, president & CEO of the Better Business Bureau serving Chicago and Northern Illinois. ?Thousands of people may have had their personal information compromised, and given the scammers? tactics, it appears that those who have previously used payday loan services could be particularly at risk.?

According to reports received by the BBB and posted online, the scammers accuse the victim of defaulting on a payday loan and claim they are being sued. The phony debt collector threatens that, if the victim doesn?t pay as much as $1,000 immediately via wire or by providing bank account or credit card numbers, he or she will be arrested and extradited to California within the hour to stand trial. The scammers often may have the victim?s Social Security, old bank account numbers or driver?s license numbers as well as home addresses, employer information and even the names of personal friends and professional references.

The BBB offers the following advice to consumers if they receive a suspicious telephone call about an outstanding debt:
* Ask the debt collector to provide official documentation in writing 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.
* Review recent copies of your credit reports to ensure that the alleged debt is not affecting your credit. Consumers can do this for free once every 12 months, and can find more information here: http://www.ftc.gov/freereports
* Under the Federal Trade Commission's Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, debt collectors may not harass, oppress, or abuse any person while attempting to collect a debt.
* A debtor may be contacted between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. only and can be contacted at work unless instructed not to.
* File a complaint with the FTC online if the caller is abusive, uses threats or otherwise violates federal telemarketing laws.
* File a complaint with BBB online at www.bbb.org if you believe a debt collector is trying to scam you.

http://www.thinkglink.com/article/2009/08/06/ ... eading-says-bbb

http://800notes.com/articles/News.aspx/UmghNAGYQwANpAjL5OOhYA

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-714-333-2981

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 ID: 817-231-7416
Caller: MANY Aliases
Caller Type: Collection Agency

I just received a vice mail, of which this number ranged 6 times before leaving a message from this number. A Crystal Davis. heavy oriental accent, left no name of a company, left a message saying I had to call her back today or my attorney of record, if I did not she wished me good luck.  She left a call back number of 215-279-5864. Same dalog as from ACS (Joesph Williams), another scamming company.

All the things you just mentioned in your comments just happened to me...apparently scammers out of the country trying to get people scared into giving them money

I received calls on my home phone and cell phone, no message left.  When I called back immediately it said that the phone number was disconnected.  Very fishy!

i received a call from a guy who was from another country like india. he stated he was calling from a govt agency & asked for me. he then read my ssn to me which i did not respond to him because i'm no fool and knew off the top i was being scammed. after calling me a total of 3x's they finally stated i was being sued for some sort of check fraud & money laundering. he told me i had an electronic funds transfer into my account, which he told me who i banked with & also read me my routing number & banking account number. he read me my old house address where i used to live & to top the cake he gave me my husband's full name & my best friends full name. i then told them i am going to report them & he hung up.