I keep getting calls from 718-766-7916.  Threatening lawsuits.  The guy said I defaulted on a payday loan.  I told the guy I never signed up for a payday loan.  Atm that point he got angry and began yelling at me.  I told the guy to go ahead and sue me and hung up.

The number 718-766--7916 is listed on a website - www.netviewer.com - as their Customer Service contact number.  I came across this web site as I was investigating unsolicited charges exceeding $500 on my debit card.  The web site lists the companies address somewhere in Germany.  The web site listed another number 866-297-3710 but that number is no longer in service.

This scam has been going on for well over a year, now and has been recognized as such by the BBB:

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/Phone.aspx/1-214-618-5897

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) 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, lawyers, officers of the court or bankers, or if they threatened you with arrest, be sure to include that information in your report.

2) File a complaint online with The Federal Trade Commission at https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en

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) The caller placed the call under a Texas area code. Even though the caller ID was probably spoofed or they're using VoIP technology to hide the fact that they're really calling from overseas, you should also file a complaint with the Texas Attorney General at http://www.oag.state.tx.us/consumer/complain.shtml

5) File a complaint your state's attorney general, the contact information for whom is at www.naag.org

6) 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.

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

...and, many, MANY more.

Yeah the same people have been calling me saying they were going to arrest me if I don't contact them or pay the debt I owe.Granted I do have a loan but a legit debt collection agency has already picked up the loan from whomever had it last because I got confirmation from them today and these a__holes still keep calling me with the same s__t! I can't wait for them to threaten me with arrest because me and my manager will have some choice words to say to them

Habib,

If you were as smart as you think you are, YOU would be able to speak AND write english correctly instead of that misspelled nonsense you wrote.  Don't bother to reply, you will only present yourself as ignorant anyway.

Has anybody been able to locate an address on this guy? I work for a police department here in Wisconsin and we're trying to find the jack***. What he's doing is a crime. His first mistake was trying to call me at work..

Anybody have any luck?

I ALSO HAVE RECEIVED THE SAME TYPE OF PHONE CALLS FROM THIS NUMBER TWICE AT WORK. I WAS BUSY AND A CO-WORKER TOOK THE MESSAGE SO I AM UNSURE OF WHAT ALL INFORMATION THEY HAVE.  THE CALLED IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS JOHN AND HAD A VERY STRONG ACCENT AND WAS HARD TO UNDERSTAND.  I COULD NOT IMAGINE WHAT IT WAS ABOUT SO I LOOKED UP THE NUMBER.

OMG That is hilarious!

I nearly peed my pants when I read that your "Phone # 4 was one of the first ones isued and it's been passed down through the generations"

Brilliant.

I love it !!!

Don't worry about it. I got the same call trying to collect on a loan that I never applied for, nor did I ever receive. Gentleman named Keith D Simms, but he sounds Indian. I filed a police report for fraud, end of story.

This is a total scam run by idiots who cannot speak English, have heavy Mideastern or Indian accents, and use organizational names that would never exist in this country.

Their real names are undoubtedly names like paramanansa yogamatash or maktoum bin mohammad, but they have used, among many, the following American sounding names:

Ryan Smith
James Wilson
Roger Smith
Alex Green
David Richards
Jack Jones
Robert Jackson
Paul Murray
Frank Johnson
Chuck Rogers
Danny Jones
Jake Wood
Jimmy Carter
Joe Anderson
Shawn Michaels
Harry Wilson
Louis Martin
Patrick Wilson
Eddie Wilson

They claim to be from:

United Investigation Bureau Department
United Legal Investigations
United Fraud Investigations
United Legal Investigation Department
United Legal Investigation Bureau
United Stated Legal Department

It should be possible for authorities to trace them to this FAX Number:

646-786-4334

They are running scared, and they keep changing their callback number, including:

212-461-1163
937-664-5824
347-844-6701
718-766-7919
607-330-0158
818-688-7216
727-803-9802
713-568-4627
513-754-1987
904-239-3968
718-673-6146
303-968-1170

Also, they were featured on ABC News:



READ THIS:

http://abcnews.go.com/ http://abcnews.go.com/
Fake Debt Collectors Terrify Consumers
Alleged Debt Scam Calls Threaten Consumers: 'Only God Can Help You Now'
By ALICE GOMSTYN
ABC NEWS Business Unit
Aug. 21, 2008 ?

Scammers masquerading as debt collectors and law enforcement officials have terrified consumers with threatening phone calls and bilked them out of thousands of dollars, officials with the West Virginia Attorney General's Office say.

Prosecutors said that the scammers, who speak with heavy foreign accents, are known for repeatedly calling people at home and at work and threatening them with arrest if they don't repay supposed debts -- debts that, according to West Virginia officials, don't actually exist.
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The scammers operate under names such as U.S. National Bank, Federal Investigation Bureau and United Legal Processing, said West Virginia Assistant Attorney General Norman Googel.

The callers also have invoked the names of actors Denzel Washington and Steve Martin, people who've received calls tell ABCNews.com.
Googel said that the scammers have been impossible to track down, but ABCNews.com spoke to one man who claimed to be associated with U.S. National Bank. The man said he works for Financial Crime Division, a company he said provides services for USNB.

The man refused to give his name and gave little information about his company.
'It's not necessary that each and everyone knows about Financial Crime Division, and probably one of them is you,' he said. (To hear an excerpt of this interview, click here. Links to more interview excerpts are included on the second and third pages of this story.)
The man also denied that consumers had been threatened with arrests.

But Mark Feury, a 35-year-old assistant manager at a hotel cafe, said it was the threat of an arrest that drove him to wire nearly $800 to U.S. National Bank in January. The Lewisberg, W.Va., resident said that he took out several payday loans -- short-term loans -- in 2005 to help pay for Christmas presents and medical treatments for his son, who suffers from autism.
Feury said he paid his loans back in 2007, but the scammers' phone calls -- at least 35 in all, he said -- and their threats made him doubt himself.
'I was scared to death,' he said. 'Everything they said literally just stressed me out to the max.'

The group has targeted consumers who took out payday loans through Web sites years ago, Googel said.
The group has secured consumers' Social Security numbers and other personal information, which may have been stolen from Internet payday lending sites, Googel said.
What has made the group especially intimidating, Googel said, is its use of phrases that sound like legal terms -- such as 'downloading affidavits' -- but, in reality, are meaningless.

The alleged scammers have also invoked God, Googel said, telling victims that 'only God can help you now.'
Some of the scammers' tactics are downright puzzling.
One West Virginia woman, who asked that her name not be revealed, told ABCNews.com that a scammer once called her and identified himself as 'Denzel Washington.'
Feury said that one of the scammers who called him said he was calling from 'Steve Martin's office.'
Collection and Money Fraud

Googel said that the scammers' use of celebrity names may indicate a lack of familiarity with American names. Some, he said, suspect that the scammers are based in India.

Since July 2007, Googel said, the West Virginia Attorney General's Office has heard from nearly 20 consumers who have complained about the scam.
West Virginia residents aren't the only ones complaining. The Florida Attorney General's Office said it has heard more than three dozen complaints related to U.S. National Bank.

Thus far, Googel said, the scammers have been impossible to trace, using a multitude of phone numbers and fake addresses.
'The way they've hidden themselves is pretty slick,' he said.

ABCNews.com called a phone number associated with U.S. National Bank -- Feury listed the number in a complaint against the company -- and was transferred to the man who claimed to work for Financial Crime Division.
The man, who spoke to an ABC News reporter for about five minutes, said that U.S. National Bank owns Internet payday lending Web sites and that Financial Crime Division is a 'legal affidavit processor' -- a term that Googel also has dismissed as meaningless -- that works to notify borrowers that they still owe money to USNB. (The man refused to provide ABC News with contact information for U.S. National Bank.)
'They have taken so many loans they have forgotten that one to pay back and we are calling them about this legal matter,' the man on the phone said. 'That's not our problem that they have forgotten.'

The man argued against the complaint that his company had called people about nonexistent or repaid debts. Consumers, he said, have failed to provide the company with proof that their debts have been repaid.
'When we are asking the information, they are not ready to give to us,' he said. 'If they have paid it, they must have something in writing, some kind of receipt, but they are not going to give it to us, so how can we trust them?'

Loan Scams and Fake Address
When asked where Financial Crime Division was based, the man hung up.
Googel said that he has been on the phone with the suspected scammers many times and that each time they refuse to provide identifying information such as valid addresses or a licensing number, which collections agencies operating in West Virginia are required to have.
'I yell and scream at them, but it doesn't do any good. It's sort of high drama in a way,' he said.
Googel said that he has notified the Federal Trade Commission about the scam, but the FTC would not confirm whether it had launched an investigation. An FTC official told ABCNews.com that it does not disclose whether it is investigating a company unless it takes the company to court.

The official said that consumers with complaints about U.S. National Bank are encouraged to contact the FTC, the Better Business Bureau or their state attorney general's office. Read a statement by the West Virginia Attorney General's Office's office on the issue here.
ABC News' Gerard Middleton contributed to this report.
Copyright © 2008 ABC News Internet Ventures

A couple of days ago I started getting messgaes on both home and cell phone to return a call to a criminal investigation agency. It said a "Harsh Criminal Action" for fraud was pending aginst my name and the last 4 of my social security number. When I called back they told me I applied for a cash loan of $443.00 online that was deposited to my checking account the 2nd week of October 2008 and I defaulted on the loan. I looked at my accounts history and there was no such deposit. It was amazing that they were able to give me the last four of the account number and the I.P. address of my computer at my job. The accents were from India and very thick but the investigator gave his name as Rick Cooper. The number that first came up on the caller ID was 052-480-189 and 000-000-000 another time, but I was told to call back on 719-766-7916. Even though I told them on two seperate calls to sit on their camels hump and rotate they were still stupid enough to keep calling back. It worries me at the amount of personal information they have. I will put an alert on my credit report and do an online complaint to the FBI website. In a strange way a part of me wants to have some fun with this, I'm thinking of getting a friend of mine to set them up in a auto-dialer system to call every 2 minutes 24/7 for the next 30 days.

I started receiving a call from a weird phone # yesterday 496-656-7520. The person left me a voicemail saying that they had my social security and they were filing a lawsuit against me. He left me another number to call back 786-522-0539. When I called back he asked me to verify my phone # and said that a lawsuit was being filed against me for non payment of a payday loan and that I needed to send 400 plus dollars immediately or I will be sued. They had all of my information and kept asking me to verify it. I told them that I needed his company's name and address and the indian on the line got very upset and started saying that I was a professional beggar and an idiot. He then said that they were going to keep running my social and that I didnt need to verify the information with them because they already had it. This is really frustrating because they have my job's phone # and also my co-worker's number.

This guy has called several times. The first couple of times he said his name was Detective Watson, but he can barely speak English enough to spell it for me. He states my husband is about to be sued for some unpaid debt. He states he is with National Affidavit Processing Dept. He knows my husbands step-mother's name although he says she is his wife, and even his brother's name. Today he gave me a different call back number 212-461-1163. This guy is the biggest scam artist and this is really getting annoying. I think I will call him back and jack with him for awhile...see how he likes his day being interrupted.

These idiots have called me trying to get to one of my friends. The so called man used the name John. He also had a very thick accent. I told him I knew they were scammers and told him to never call my phone again and that I was reporting them and I hung up. He called back within ten minuets and started to yell at me and said he didn't care if I reported them and blah blah blah. I basically cursed him out so I couldn't really hear anything else he was "trying" to say and I hung up on the fool. I did a reverse look up on the # they left to have my friend call back and it is registered in New York. But my friend went to the police and evidently that is bogus as well. The address doesn't even exist.

I'm glad I found this website so I can see that others have gone through the same thing. They are such BS's! I have been receiving calls from them since last year and never gotten the "information" on my lawsuit they claimed I had..lol! I just got a call today and I called back just for fun. I told the guy that I never received the payday loan and that I had been receiving calls since last year. I said "this is a scam" and they guy said "you may think its a scam, but its not" I said "oh no, I don't think its a scam, I KNOW its a scam...lol." He then tried to rush me off the phone and I hung up on him...lol! TOTAL SCAM ARTISTS!

OMG that is too darn funny! They been calling me for a year straight now! I just keep calling back to mess with them...lol! I'll get into arguments with the men who answer the phone and tell them just how BOGUS their jobs and company are! TOTAL SCAM ARTIST!!!!

Recieved a call from this number from a man with a very thick middle eastern accent stating that I had defaulted on payment for an online account. He said if I don't return his call he will send the matter to the legal action department. He knew my name cell number and last 4 digits of my ssn.

I receive a voicemail message from a Jake wood calling from the nation affidavit/epidemic he had a very thick indian accent. He left a call back number 212-461-1163 he claimed that a lawsuit will be filed against me and my social security number. He also provided the last 4 digits. It had me worried until I called the number back and realized it was a non working number also I work in telecommunications and my caller I'd number showed a weird code number which is obviously international number codes. It wasn't even a full number on the caller I'd.

You c****y stuped!  I get monie from many person!  Ar ideah do not sucks!  I we trick many dum amaricins!

Same # on my caller ID!!! But the phone number they leave on my voice mail is a different one. What the heck is area code 052 anyway?

I have had several calls from various #s, all people with terrible accidents saying I'm listed as a "reference" on a friend's application and she's been accused of "internet fraud". Bogus!!! I just let it go to VM on my cell phone now - I won't call back anymore b/c I don't want any long distance charges on my bill. So annoying! Isn't there something that can be done about this??? Always "Robert Jackson" or "Paul Murray" or some American name, but these people can barely speak English.

Just got a call both on my cell and my work phone. Very heavy accent, very rude when you are on to them. The ID on my cell was 052-480189 which
may just be a verison of 905-248-0183. Call back number was 718-766-7916 which I see in a lot of earlier posts.  These guys tried this on me last year, very persistant but it's scary what they know about you. Just hang up and report and put a fraud alert on your credit reports. They use lots of different, ery American name Ivy Foster ?? Comon how stupid to they think we are...just infuriates me that I have to do all the work to put alerts on my credit etc. But the can't harrass you if you don't answer the phone !!

I am so glad I googled 718-766-7916. I keep getting these phone calls from an Arabic guy stating that he is from the National Affi Data Department by the name of Jake Wood lol How funny the same last name... yesterday he used a different name. I suposeofly took out a payday loan and didn't pay it back... now the company is filing a lawsuit against me. Weird.. I never applied for a payday loan. I even pulled up my credit report to see if anything showed up.... nothing. thank goodness I thought someone stole my personal information. lmao I just called them back saying that I was a lawyer representing my client and the guy asked who I was calling for... i again stated that my name was someone else a laywer representing my client... they guy asked me to hold so he could transfer me to someone else... instead of placing me on hold he held down a number key for 1.30 mins, then I heard some noise in the back ground.. then he hung up... i am calling back to mess with them again... what goes around comes around...lol

Extreme foreign accent naming herself "Ivy Fulser" called and left me voicemail messages on my CELL PHONE wanting me to give their number to my sister.  She said to have my sister call her back at 718-766-7916.  She said she was from the "National ?????? Debt Processing Department.  I've listened to the message repeatedly and cannot makeout the complete name of the business.  She called me at 11:43am on 4-15-09 and AGAIN at 11:48am. The number she was calling from showed up on my caller id as 052-480-189

These guys called me twice this morning (and I do mean early) and left me a voice mail stating that they were leaving a G**d***N voicemail and threatened me with legal action. I decided to call them back at the number they left 718-766-7916 and the first few times it rang and I got a voicemail saying that the person at extension 7001 wasn't available. Then I called again and I got bunch of beep as if someone picked up the phone and started pressing numbers as if to avoid the call. The last I call I asked for Apu and the guy who picked up the phone said he'd get him and then started pressing numbers and held down of them with a very clear beep before hanging up.


These guys are obviously scammers because no bill collector in their right mind would call you at 6:30 am trying to get money out of you because that alone is a clear violation of the FDCPA.

What is really idiotic is that they are threatening to sue you, they are saying that they are filing a suit against "the last four digits of your social security number" because that is part of the information that they have hacked.  This is one of the dumbest scams ever, but unfortunately some people will be frightened or confused enough to fork over money to these yo-yos!

I received another call today from that number. They called and indicated their name was "Danny Jones". He said he was calling from "National Affidavit Processing Center". He once again, had a VERY thick middle eastern accent. He asked for my telephone number and then told me I was being sued by "Quick Cash" for not paying my payment. I told him it was a mistake and asked him to verify ALL of my information and he did. He knew my name, address, phone number, SSN# and also where I was employed. I told him to remove my information from his file and he stated he would but I am still EXTREMELY concerned about this. They even contacted my SISTER looking for me. He did claim they made a mistake but when I began asking questions he was very short with me and I think this is a very dangerous situation. If you receive a call from this number you need to report it immediately. I am going to do all that I can to keep this from happening to other people. If they have my info. it is untelling the trouble I will have in the future. Please be aware that this is a scam. Report them immediately upon hearing from this number.

These are the same jokers who were using number 347-844-6701 (check the comments for 347-844-6701 on 800notes.com).  If they have called you before, you will recognize the voice of the same idiot who always gives a name like Roger Smith or Jeff Jones but whose real name is probably something like Paramananda Yogamavasa.  Their scam is basically to trick people into sending money (between $500 and $1,000) to avoid some sort of "harsh legal action" that is being threatened by the United Investigations Bureau Department, or some other stupid name that does not even make sense.  This is a boiler room operation based on hacked information, and they are obviously hoping for a return from a small percentage of people who get duped into providing information and sending money.

Since they are evidently in a foreign country, it will probably be difficult to get them arrested.  But the best thing is to inform the public about the scam by posting on sites like this, complain to the phone company, complain to the Attorney General's Office, complain to the Federal Communication Commission, complain to the Federal Trade Commission, and call the FBI.

The most effective response, though, was suggested by "paybackisabeatch" on the complaint section for 347-844-6701.  Turn the tables on these jerks by calling them back and asking for Habib.  Tie up their phone lines and waste their time, and lessen the probability that they will successfully contact some sucker who will send them money.

Here is a copy of his post:

On today's date these tards called my phone four times stating that I was committing fraudulent and criminal activity. I googled the number and located this blog. I was p-retty sure this was a B.S. scam and this site helped reenforce that. I decided it was my turn to be annoying and harassing.
I called the 347-844-6701 back and a man with a heavy indian, arabic accent answered stating he was from United States Legal Ihnvestigation. I asked for Habib. After repeating myself ten times the guy said maybe he could possibly help me if I provided my telpehone number. I told Habib that it was 4. Habib asked for the remaining numbers and I stated that there were none. Habib stated there had to be more. I advised him that my number was one of the first ever given out and that it had been passed down through the generations. Habib then placed me on hold and I hung up.
I called back. Habib answered and I asked for Habib. He stated that there was no one there my that name but he could assist me. Habib asked for my telephone number and I agian said it was 4. Habib stated that I was bull @#$% and I advised him that his company was bull #$%@. Habib hung up on me.
I called back. I asked for Habib and the man stated that he was Habib and asked what I wanted. I told him that they called me and what do they want. Habib placed me on hold. I hung up.
I called back. I asled for Habib and he stated that there was no one there by that name. Habib then hung up on me.
I called back again. Habib hung up as soon as he answered.
I called back again. Same result.

I guess Ill wait a while and call them again, to harass the crap out of them because it is highly entertaining to listen to Habib get mad. My suggestion to everyone is that if these tards call you. Call them back and harass the crap out of them. Maybe they will get annoyed and stop this crappy scam they have going for them.

I they don't hopefully the government will put a stop to this with enough complaints. Also for those that think contacting your local law enforcement with this information will help stop the phone calls it won't. Most of your local agencies won't be able to assist in this matter and it is best to contact your state attornety general's office or a federal agency. Not that local agencies are incompetent but it is beyond their ability as most of the phone calls originate out of your state or country.

So let this company get a taste of their own medicine, I will. Eventually when they call I'll answer and attempt to put a stop to this but in the meantime I can have fun too. Gotta go , Habib is awaiting my next call.
Caller ID: 347-844-6701
Caller: United States Legal Investigations
Caller Type: Collection Agency

3rd call for me...  told them to mail me the information since they knew sooo much about me!  He hung up on me!