724-972-0962
PA, US
 | lovee 2012-11-05 23:50:25 Unknown |
Received call from this number Legal officer William Scott with United Nations Legal Dept. Said I have an arrest warrent for check fraud (40). I don't use checks
| Alfalfa 2012-11-03 10:42:40 Unknown |
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 from unscrupulous websites like the one you may have filled out an application with, 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.
ABC News released an investigative report on this scam in June. The FTC has indicted one of its ringleaders for criminal fraud:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/phantom-debt-co ... 16512428&page=1
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/08/bgm.shtm
ABC News released an investigative report on this scam in June. The FTC has indicted one of its ringleaders for criminal fraud:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/phantom-debt-co ... 16512428&page=1
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/08/bgm.shtm
| blackiann 2012-11-03 09:45:40 Debt Collector |
I got the same call from 724-972-0962 its a scam saying owing a payday loan which i never took out one they are such scammers which they would leave people alone. can not understand them when they do call.
| Yang 2012-10-05 22:38:06 Debt Collector |
Recieved a few calls from 724-972-0962, first person was a Paul Smith and second person was the manager Mike Wilson regarding on a loan that I had defaulted with. I had called the original owner of the loan and it was sold out to a different company and that company still have it in their office. These two people are FRAUD! They are claiming to be attroneys calling from Texas, but the number came up in Greensburg, PA. They are making harrassement remarks and also threats of being taken away to jail and embarrassing me at work and making sure I lose my job for good. DO NOT give in because as a Debtor we have rights that Creditors have to honor and cannot do such horrible things like that. I told them to stop calling me at work but they still calls me at work and they won't pick up any of my calls when I try to call them back. They are BAD PEOPLE only!
This Guys Are from India Ahmedabad
office Add is
LL29 Maruti Center,
BL Punjab Honda,
Gurukul, Ahemdabad 380057.
Gujarat. INDIA.
https://www.facebook.com/resolveinfocom
+91-9898661506 +91-9377523232
http://resolveinfocom.com/contactus.html
There Web site
This Guys Are from India Ahmedabad
office Add is
LL29 Maruti Center,
BL Punjab Honda,
Gurukul, Ahemdabad 380057.
Gujarat. INDIA.
https://www.facebook.com/resolveinfocom
+91-9898661506 +91-9377523232
http://resolveinfocom.com/contactus.html
There Web site
| LoveLets 2012-09-19 17:57:01 Unknown |
Yes. Me too. I received a call from the a guy Name Mike Willison. They said, Im in big trouble by not paying my dues of loans. Which is already paid long ago. They also said that they will take me to the court. OMG! what WTF?? who are this people. Jeez.. b*****ds!
| danielle 2012-09-14 10:52:02 Unknown |
I received a message from someone at this number; they claimed to be a legal officer for the United Nations saying that they had an affidavit to arrest me for check and bank fraud! And that if I did not call back, they would "press legal charges and come after" me. I have no idea what on earth they are talking about! This claim is completely impossible as I do not even use checks as a form of payment on anything. I either use cash or card.
Needless to say, I am scared out of my mind and have no idea what the heck to do about them, etc. Who are these people, really? And how on earth do they have my name and social security number?
Needless to say, I am scared out of my mind and have no idea what the heck to do about them, etc. Who are these people, really? And how on earth do they have my name and social security number?
| Todd 2012-08-13 16:28:43 Unknown |
A guy named Steven brown called me at my place of employment looking for me> left a message for me to call him He was calling from the united Nations legal dept and left word for me to call him back. i was at lunch so i didnt get the call but i researched the number and see that its a scam
| Donna 2012-08-08 00:56:39 Unknown |
Calling saying he was william scott from the United Nations legal department. But when I called asking who they were they asked me who I was. They even called my job leaving a message.
| Rene 2012-07-19 18:55:27 Debt Collector |
thanks for this information they just called me saying that I took out a lown for $350 in January of 2012 they are liars and I knew it!
| Ann 2012-07-18 19:15:07 Unknown |
I received a phone call from this number telling me I took out a loan for $350 in May of 2011. I never did that. They threatened me with legal action and arrest. They also threatened to take my job away. I am not employed. If this is a fraud, please beware.
| Yang 2012-07-16 18:54:30 Unknown |
I had recieved the same phone from the same number telling me that if i don't pay a debt off they will take me to court. I had verified with the orignial place that i took the loan from and they still have it, it hasn't been sold off to another party yet. So the state of investigation department is a FRAUD! If a Paul Smith or Mike Wilson trys calling anyone claiming to be attorneys then just ignore it!
| Yang 2012-07-16 18:49:24 Unknown |
Recieved a few calls from 724-972-0962, first person was a Paul Smith and second person was the manager Mike Wilson regarding on a loan that I had defaulted with. I had called the original owner of the loan and it was sold out to a different company and that company still have it in their office. These two people are FRAUD! They are claiming to be attroneys calling from Texas, but the number came up in Greensburg, PA. They are making harrassement remarks and also threats of being taken away to jail and embarrassing me at work and making sure I lose my job for good. DO NOT give in because as a Debtor we have rights that Creditors have to honor and cannot do such horrible things like that. I told them to stop calling me at work but they still calls me at work and they won't pick up any of my calls when I try to call them back. They are BAD PEOPLE only!
| Daniel DeHerrera 2012-07-02 18:00:46 Unknown |
I just received a call from 724-972-0962 and couldn't really understand the caller. I have never taken a loan on line. I hung up on the man and blocked his number. What is this world coming to? I'm 70 years old and barely making it and then I get a call from this jack***.
| Quanita Britt 2012-06-22 18:49:06 Debt Collector |
Just received a phone call from this place, i can hear ppl in the background like a telemarket place so I know at first that it is a scam. I have been getting these phone call from same ppl just different names,you think by now they would learn not to call me. I have checked to the begining of my bank account and there has been no deposit made in my account. Every time i get one of these phone call i just hop back on the FBI website and report them Someone need to put a stop to these ppl and how they prey on people. I understand it is a job but not a honest one.
| Alfalfa 2012-06-14 15:06:51 Unknown |
Spam. This extortion scam was featured on "ABC World News" and "Nightline" last night:
Phantom Debt Collectors From India Harass Americans, Demand Money
By BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) , CINDY GALLI and MATTHEW MOSK (@mattmosk)
June 7, 2012
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 was 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.
"If Mr. Patel was just a cog in the wheel he seems to have been a pretty big cog," Leibowitz said. "It is clear that Patel was integrally involved with this scam."
Leibowitz points to thousands of pages of financial and phone records gathered by the FTC and filed as part of a civil case brought against him in the U.S. District Court in Sacramento last month. When FTC lawyers sought to freeze his assets and prevent his business from continuing to operate, Patel responded by invoking his rights against self-incrimination. His lawyer told ABC News he has had to be careful in how he responds to the allegations in civil court "because there is a potential criminal action," but that Patel maintains the allegations against him are false.
Federal investigators said the phantom debt collection operation that allegedly benefitted from Patel's assistance was one of several that all trace back to the same small town in Western India called Ahmedabad. Callers use technology to make it appear that the calls originate inside the U.S. Victims provided ABC News with recordings of dozens of the calls, and many of the thickly accented callers appear to be reading off a script.
"Subpoenas have been readied, and Monday morning you're going to be picked up from your home," one caller says on a victim's voicemail. "And you have children. Don't worry about your children. We have a childcare department to take care of the children."
"You will be behind bars for six months," said another caller. "And once you go behind bars, you will lose your job. Once you are behind the bars, you won't get a single drop of water."
William Peerce Howard, a Tampa attorney who represents victims of harassment from debt collectors, said it takes an especially twisted criminal to use threats and coercion to pry money from someone who is already struggling financially
"These guys really are the most visible villains in America today," he said. "They make a living scaring people."
Mark Merola, of Florida, said he just panicked when the caller told him he might be arrested at the deli where he works in a Florida retirement community.
"I was nervous. I didn't want to embarrass myself, my family," he said. He used his debit card to pay the collector $576.
Afterwards, he says he realized "how stupid I was."
"It just happened so fast," he said. "I got scared."
Leibowitz said he hopes with more attention, future potential targets of the scam will recognize red flags before they turn over any money.
If callers say they are from the police, consumers should know that law enforcement officers do not collect debt for private parties. If the caller is speaking with a thick Indian accent, but calls themselves by a names such as Officer Mike Johnson, that should be a tip off. And if they're calling 40 times in two hours, that's another red flag. "Legitimate debt collectors, legitimate pay day lenders don't do those sorts of things," he said.
Merola said he would like to see anyone involved in the scam prosecuted aggressively.
"There's no place in society for these people," he said.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/phantom-debt-co ... 16512428&page=2
Phantom Debt Collectors From India Harass Americans, Demand Money
By BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) , CINDY GALLI and MATTHEW MOSK (@mattmosk)
June 7, 2012
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 was 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.
"If Mr. Patel was just a cog in the wheel he seems to have been a pretty big cog," Leibowitz said. "It is clear that Patel was integrally involved with this scam."
Leibowitz points to thousands of pages of financial and phone records gathered by the FTC and filed as part of a civil case brought against him in the U.S. District Court in Sacramento last month. When FTC lawyers sought to freeze his assets and prevent his business from continuing to operate, Patel responded by invoking his rights against self-incrimination. His lawyer told ABC News he has had to be careful in how he responds to the allegations in civil court "because there is a potential criminal action," but that Patel maintains the allegations against him are false.
Federal investigators said the phantom debt collection operation that allegedly benefitted from Patel's assistance was one of several that all trace back to the same small town in Western India called Ahmedabad. Callers use technology to make it appear that the calls originate inside the U.S. Victims provided ABC News with recordings of dozens of the calls, and many of the thickly accented callers appear to be reading off a script.
"Subpoenas have been readied, and Monday morning you're going to be picked up from your home," one caller says on a victim's voicemail. "And you have children. Don't worry about your children. We have a childcare department to take care of the children."
"You will be behind bars for six months," said another caller. "And once you go behind bars, you will lose your job. Once you are behind the bars, you won't get a single drop of water."
William Peerce Howard, a Tampa attorney who represents victims of harassment from debt collectors, said it takes an especially twisted criminal to use threats and coercion to pry money from someone who is already struggling financially
"These guys really are the most visible villains in America today," he said. "They make a living scaring people."
Mark Merola, of Florida, said he just panicked when the caller told him he might be arrested at the deli where he works in a Florida retirement community.
"I was nervous. I didn't want to embarrass myself, my family," he said. He used his debit card to pay the collector $576.
Afterwards, he says he realized "how stupid I was."
"It just happened so fast," he said. "I got scared."
Leibowitz said he hopes with more attention, future potential targets of the scam will recognize red flags before they turn over any money.
If callers say they are from the police, consumers should know that law enforcement officers do not collect debt for private parties. If the caller is speaking with a thick Indian accent, but calls themselves by a names such as Officer Mike Johnson, that should be a tip off. And if they're calling 40 times in two hours, that's another red flag. "Legitimate debt collectors, legitimate pay day lenders don't do those sorts of things," he said.
Merola said he would like to see anyone involved in the scam prosecuted aggressively.
"There's no place in society for these people," he said.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/phantom-debt-co ... 16512428&page=2
| yang 2012-06-14 15:05:31 Unknown |
I got a call from 724-972-0962 stating that they are calling from the state of investigation department, is that real or a spam?
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