I have had the same exact thing happen to me! They want money for some bill or something. I told them to send me documents stating what i owe the money for. They will not do it. Scammers im going to have someone look into this for me.

At my job I keep getting a call from this number 052986665 for a co-worker.  I have had to deal with this people as she is out of the office.  The callers have been all male with an Indian accent.  There has been alot of background noise also.  They are beligerent (called us Mother F'ers... and persistant in that this is a legal issue and they want me to call her and tell her, which I REFUSE to do.  If you don't answer the phone the call back repeatedly!  The last time they called 6 times within 20 minutes.  They called again this morning and I decided to look up the number on google, I am glad I did. We are contacting the worker and letting her know it is a scam.

WHO ARE THESE NUTS? THEY KEEP CALLING AND NEVER LEAVING ANY INFO THE # THEY CALL US FROM IS 732-410-5200. AND YES THEY SOUND LIKE THEY ARE FROM INDIA, AND THIS GUYS NAME WAS ROMEL FRROM THE DEPT. OF CRIME PREVENTION. NOW COMPANIES SHOULD KNOW WHY WE DON'T LIKE TO GIVE ANY INFO ON THE PHONE..

They called me at 12. Said  this company had deposited money into my bank account and I never paid them back and will be going to court. They had my social security#, bank acct#, driver license #, my bank information.... I knew for sure i do not owe anyone money, so I suggested that we def should go to court and please forward the information to the court. Then he said, if u go to court, it might cost you $ 900, but you can settle this today for $ 510.49.. it was just FISHY... so I ended up calling the cyberspace crime #, and.. yea it is scheme... it's outside of USA crime.. DO NOT GIVE THE MONEY!

If you recieve calls from this person demanding money, or threatening you please contact NJ state police cyber crimes 609-584-5051 X 5689 they are investigating this company. This is not a legitimate company, DO NOT PAY THEM ANYTHING!!!

I recieved the same type of call, international number on caller ID and NJ phone number for VM, I was informed that i was a "suspect" for a crime, and they needed my attorney's information, when i refused to give this info he threatened to send "local agents" to my place of work to collect me. They made statments that they had been hired by the Attorney General's office to call me and inform me. When i wanted more company information Ie; address etc, they refused to give it to me, he became very irrate and hung up.

Ok so i did some digging on this; first I called my local police to see if i was wanted for a crime, I'm not, Then i called my state Atty General, The FCC, and NJ Atty General and filed compaints.

I am now working with a detective with the NJ State Police Cyber Crimes unit. He can be reached at 609-584-5051 X5689, if you recieve a call please contact him to report it. they are investigating this company.


Thanks! M

This same thing happened to me about an hour ago. Alex said I would end up in jail if I didn't pay him this money for a pay day loan that I had months earlier. I told him I needed more time for this and asked him if I could call him back and he gave me a New Jersey Phone number-732-410-5200. he was hard to understand-from India I think. He has all my personal information. When he calls me the number that shows up on my caller ID is +052986665. But he gave me a New Jersey Phone number??? He had me scared to death then I read some of the complaints against this number and it was exactly like my situation! I want to get these scammers too!!!!

I RECEIVED THIS SAME CALL YESTERDAY. A MAN CALLED ALEX WITH MY SS#- HE INSISTED I PAY HIM 300.00 BEFOPRE I WIND UP IN JAIL- HE CLAIMED TO BE AN "OFFICER" AND THAT I WOULD HAVE TO GO TO COURT IF I DIDNT PAY AN OUSTANDING PAYDAY LOAN. I CALLED MY BANK AND THEY HAVE NO RECORD OF THAT PAY DAY LOAN. I CALLED BACK ASKING TO FAX ME ALL THE DOCUMNTES. HE TOLD SINCE I DID NOT BELIEVE HIM ME HE COULD SUE ME FOR "DEFAMATION OF CHARACTER"! THEY HAVE MOST MY INFO! CAN SOMEONE HELP ME FIND THESE SCAMMERS!!!!

At my job I keep getting a call from this number 052986665 for a co-worker.  I have had to deal with this people as she is out of the office.  The callers have been all male with an Indian accent.  There has been alot of background noise also.  They are beligerent (called us Mother F'ers... and persistant in that this is a legal issue and they want me to call her and tell her, which I REFUSE to do.  If you don't answer the phone the call back repeatedly!  The last time they called 6 times within 20 minutes.  They called again this morning and I decided to look up the number on google, I am glad I did. We are contacting the worker and letting her know it is a scam.

I Filed a complaint with the federal trade commission. Don't know if it will do anything but at least will put their phone numbers on the alert. Don't fall for this scam. They are good at the scare tactics. Just realize they fist contact you from an international number then give you a New Jersey number. Then they gave me their fax number which is a 206 area code which I think is Washington. Bunch of Bull. "Alex" left me a message yesterday said I will be going to jail today, cause I did not pay. Still here. They just want you to panic and call them back and pay them.

who is this screwed up 4 months ago ricky watson called me and said I was going to jail for fraud for a payday loan and me being scared payed 1000 dollars wow am I stupid but they have called me every month sense then from different locations and numbers and names today was Jim Kelly QB lol I should have dug a little deeper the first time then I wouldnt be out 1000 dollars trust me I will find these people if its the last thing I do

THE EXACT SAME THING HAPPENED TODAY ALEX CALLED MY JOB SAYING THE SAME THING.I WAS ALSO IN A PANIC BECAUSE I HAVE HAD A PAYDAY LOAN BUT IT IS CURRENTLY UNDER BANKRUTCY.I CALLED MY ATTORNEY JUST TO SEE IF IT WAS A SURELY IT WAS.ALEX GAVE ME MY SSN,EMAIL ADDRESS,AD ETC. WHICH I AM CLEARLY WORRIED ABOUT.OH HE ALSO CALLED MY CELL PHONE TWICE BEFORE CALLING ME AT WORK.I TOLD HIM THAT I  WAS UNDER BANKRUPTCY AND HE SAID OK HE WILL REPORT IT BACK TO THE PAYDAY COMPANY.SO I CALLED BACK JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO AND ASKED THEM WAS EVERTHING OK AND IF THERE WAS SOMETHING ELSE NEED TO BE DONE THEY SAID NO, SO I ASKED WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE PAYDAY COMPANY THEY SAID UNIVERSAL CASH....."I NEVER HAD A LOAN WITH THAT COMPANY. SO THEN I KNEW THEY WERE WITH THE BULL CRAP...I WILL DO MORE INVESTIGATING AND GET THE US ATTORNEY'S GENERAL OFFICE ON THE PHONE FOR A RECORD CONVERSATION WITH THEM....EVERYBODY BE CAREFUL BECAUSE THIS IS KRAZY.

The same thing happened to me. Got me in a panic for half the day. Glad I called my brother who looked it up, It's a scam. They did have all my info which is scary. So I am changing all my accounts. They had me going for a minute. The guys name was "Alex Fergunson" OK Mohamed

The same thing happened to me yesterday. I went to the police station and the cop told me not to worry about it. He said his name was Jim Brown. The cop knew it was a scam because they then called me from and 052 number and the cop happened to be in the marines so he knew it was an international number.

These people are calling my sister 5 and 6 times a day asking for me, telling her that I am the investigation of a fraud case and that I need to call them back or be in court on Monday.  If they have her listed as a reference they should have my number I have yet to get a call from them........sounds fishy to me

(Also, did this man tell any of you that the phone call was being recorded and to not use any profanities?)js

i got the same thing just a mintue ago. is it possible to sue these people for harrassment?

Also, did this man tell any of you that the phone call was being recorded and to not use any profanities?

Same exact thing happened to me.  He had my bank account info and was one digit off on my social security number.  Who do you think we can call to get these guys out of here.  They had my stomach in knots for half the day until I investigated more.

I got this call today too.  I could hear lots of people in the background so it is definitely a call center.  I also contacted the state of NJ.  I was told bu the state police that they were aware of no such investigation unit, and they had nothing in their records on me.  I have family in law enforcement. Sounds like a scam to me.  I asked written proof of claim and a phone number where i could speak to someone not in a call center.  I still have not received that info.

I got a call this morning, except it was from a woman who said her name was angel lewis and she wanted to talk to me about some very important information.  She left a message because at the time she called I did not have a signal so no caller id came up.  English clearly was not her first language.  She wanted me to call her back at 732-410-5200.  I can see by the calls in the last couple of days from previous people that this is a scam.

I got the very same call. Guy threatened me with all the same. Said he was from the dept of crime prevention. He wanted me to pay over the phone with a debit or credit card. I asked him why I should pay over the phone to a person I have no idea where they are calling from. Said it's my choice they can move forward with it. Definitely sketchy. If anything actually does happen, can someone post it cos I'm not paying this dude over the phone.

i received a call from the very same no yesterday.......he tld me i have nt paid sum internet pay day loan.he had all my confidential informations such as my SSn,LIC NO,bank a/c no.he told me he was calling from dept of crime preventions n if i dont pay off the amt i owe to the company i will be getting picked up on this charges.and i might lose my job n my credit status would also be marked red n if i need any loans in the future i won't get it.i got afraid but i didn't pay them i hung up with the call.after sometime a small team of investigators came at my place of employment with the local authorities and they also told me the same thing.and finally i had to pay them up to stop the legal actions.guys i also thought its a scam but its not.it is wise to pay them up.sp just BEWARE of them...

Called employer claiming to be from a crime prevention unit.  Hindu male voice.  When questioned about his affiliation with a law enforcement entity, he became short and repeatedly asked for my name.  I threatened to call the US Attorney General's office if he called again.  He then hung up the phone.

I just got the exact same phone call. The guy had my social security number which bothered me. Said if I didn't pay 2 grand today tomorrow I would have a felony case against me. He did sound like he was from India.

Is this weird. this just happened to me the mans name was james something and he said the same thing to me. I am going to report this a**hole. he not only called my family and cell, but my job and that's a big mistake.

Same thing JUST happened to me. My phone rang & this number showed up +052-986665. He claimed all the above. I told him I'd call him back and he told me to call 732-410-5200 & ask for Alex. Before I hung up he said "ask for Officer Alex". Yea right. Same hindu voice & bull about me getting arrested. Don't get scammed.

I got a call yesterday from 732-410-5200 stating that I am about to have a warrant out for my arrest if I didnt pay on a payday loan from months earlier.And, that they were calling from the criminal investigations. The man even had the nerve to state that he was an "officer" I told the man that I was at work and would call him back in 20 minutes when I got off work. Well, 10 minutes later he started calling my cell phone. I wasnt able to answer cause I was still at work. He then continued to call my cell phone in the matter of 3 hours a total of 28 times and left 5 messages. I called him back today and he is threating to send me to jail, have the police show up at my work etc... When I did a reverse look up on the # it is coming out of NJ, but the 2 people I spoke with were indian and my guess is they are in india.

This was just poseted on 800 notes.com Please read it.

YES IT IS - MAJOR SCAM -

FIRST OF ALL - YOU CANNOT BE ARRESTED FOR DEBT - debt is a civil matter, not a criminal matter.  

If you are targeted by these criminals, be sure to report them to all the following federal and state law enforcement agencies (most of which you can do online or over the phone):
1.    The U.S. Secret Service is responsible for protecting the country's financial infrastructure and payment systems from international and domestic threats. Call or write your local Secret Service field office to alert them to the details of this attempted extortion. The addresses and phone numbers for the local Secret Service field offices are listed at http://www.secretservice.gov/field_offices.shtml or in your phone book.
2.    Alert the FBI at https://tips.fbi.gov Be sure to tell the FBI that you are being targeted by extortionists over the phone. And if the crooks claim to be law enforcement or lawyers, officers of the court or bankers, be sure to include that information in your report.
3.    File a complaint with your local police. Most police departments will take a report over the phone.  Be sure to tell them that you're being targeted by an extortionist and give them all the details.
4.    File a complaint your state's attorney general, the contact information for whom is at www.wvago.gov
5.    File a complaint online with The Federal Trade Commission at https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en



Fake Debt Collectors ? Terrorizing Consumers

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5621205&page=1


MORE ON FAKE DEBT COLLECTORS
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http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/call4action/17285785/detail.html
http://www.800helpfla.com/newsletter/2008/092008.html


http://www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam.cfm
Attorney General Darrell McGraw took the extraordinary step today of warning the public about a band of scam artists making threats to consumers who allegedly obtained Internet payday loans in West Virginia and across the nation. The consumers they threaten never obtained a loan at all or paid it off years ago.

Internet payday loans are short-term loans or cash advances, usually for 14 days, made over the Internet via interactive web sites and secured by an agreement authorizing debits of the loan and all fees owed from the consumer?s checking account. These loans typically charge interest rates ranging from 600-800 APR and are unlawful in West Virginia.

The scam artists, who speak English with a foreign accent, call themselves ?U.S. National Bank,? ?Federal Investigation Bureau,? ?United Legal Processing? and numerous other phony names. They refuse to disclose real names and addresses and are believed to be operating ?off the grid? from homes, automobiles, or from off shore locations or foreign countries, including India. Since the scammers have kept themselves purposely well hidden, thus far no law enforcement agencies have succeeded in locating or shutting them down.

The scammers typically pose as law enforcement officers, investigators, lawyers, and bankers and threaten consumers that they will be arrested for ?bank fraud? or other fictitious crimes unless money is wired immediately. They simultaneously scare and confuse consumers by using meaningless legalese gobbledygook phrases such as, ?We are downloading warrants against you? or ?We are filing an affidavit against you.? Consumers who don?t immediately fall for the scam are warned, ?Only God can help you now.?

The scammers almost always call consumers at work several times a day, and tell their supervisors, ?Your employee has committed fraud and is about to be arrested.? Such threats have proven unsettling even to the most savvy consumers and employers who suspect the calls are fraudulent.

Attorney General McGraw stated, ?Ordinarily my office protects consumers from fraudulent activities by seeking injunctions in court. But legal action cannot be taken until the scam artists can be located. Even then, it is unlikely that the persons behind the fraudulent calls and extortionist threats would obey a court order. In this case, the consumer?s best defense is to be armed with the knowledge of the scam so that all demands for money can be resisted, despite the false but scarey threats of arrest.?

McGraw added, ?Because the fraudsters make a special point of calling consumers repeatedly at work, employers must understand that the consumers are innocent victims of a criminal enterprise and cannot stop the calls from coming. I also wish to assure the citizens of West Virginia that my office will continue to do everything possible to locate and shut down the outlaw debt collectors.?

More information about this fraudulent debt collection scheme is available at the Attorney General?s website, www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam. Any consumers who have been threatened by these persons or wish to file a complaint about another consumer matter may do so by calling the Consumer Protection Hot Line, 1-800-368-8808, or by obtaining a complaint form from the Attorney General?s web site.

It's a debt collection scam. And all their threats are false and illegal.
This is a very active group of scammers, many of whom are calling from India (and probably other countries) and are in cahoots with a group of American pay day loan scammers. They attempt to extort money from consumers with a myriad of false and illegal threats, and alternately pose as debt collectors, federal and state law enforcement officers, lawyers and bankers. Their trademark is to use meaningless legalese gobblygook phrases like "We are downloading warrants against you" or "We are filing an affidavit against you." Another trademark phrase is to threaten the consumer with something like this ridiculous phrase: "If you don't pay then only God can help you."
Typical of many financial scams of this variety, they usually demand payment via Western Union or MoneyGram or credit card. They use any number of phony names such as US National Bank, Federal Investigation Bureau, US Legal Investigation Bureau, Hopkins Law Office, United Legal Processing, Morgan Associates, United Pay Services, National Processing, White Collar Crime Unit and many more.  These criminals also use many phone numbers from many area codes; they're probably using caller-id spoofing software and/or VoIP to disguise their real location.
The main thing to remember is that anytime someone calls you demanding money to prevent your arrest, or demanding your lawyer's name so they can sue you, it is ALWAYS a scam. No debt collector (let alone criminals posing as debt collectors) has the authority to have anyone arrested for anything. (And it's illegal to them to threaten such a thing.) And since these foreign dirtbags routinely impersonate law enforcement, it's also important to remember that American law enforcement officers aren't in the business of debt collection.  (Debt is a civil, not a criminal, matter.)
The bottom line is, these are criminals trying to steal your money.
A consumer posting a complaint about these same scammers at http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-718-831-7157 notes that 718-831-7157 is associated with an India-based "outsourcing" telephone bank.  Though a reverse search on WhitePages.com shows that 718-831-7157 is an unlisted land line in New York City, information on Debtbuyers.Com shows that that number is used by India-based Intellisourze. (Source: http://www.debtbuyers.com/debtbuyers.asp ) My guess is that it's a VoIP phone number.
This is another piece of the puzzle that fits in perfectly with other information about this scam. There are some reports on 800Notes that have suggested that the crooks behind this offshore scam are also the crooks behind the notorious Bass/Ellis Crosby & Assoc./States Predisposition scams in Florida and Georgia. The interesting thing is that the number of complaints on here about the US National Bank/US Legal Investigation/Federal Investigation scam skyrocketed *after* April 7, 2008 when Florida obtained a $1.3 million judgment against Ted Ellis Crosby, shutdown his operations and barred him from ever conducting debt collections in Florida (Read http://myfloridalegal.com/newsrel.nsf/newsrel ... 5257424005858A6 ) There's certainly a good chance that the crooks placing these calls from India are doing so on behalf of the American crooks behind the Crosby/Bass/States Predisposition scams.
Here's the contact information for the phone bank in India:
IntellisOurzE BPO
701, Sapphier, Nr. Cargo Motors,
C.G. Road Navrangpura,
Ahmedabad - 9. (Guj.) INDIA.
E-Mail: info@intellisourze.com
Website: www.intellisourze.com
A check on the domain name "intellisourze.com" shows that the website and name registration was created on May 8, just one month *after* the Crosby scams were shut down in Florida:
Domain Name: INTELLISOURZE.COM
Registrant:  Pragra Infratech Pvt. Limited.
Email:  ankur.ranpariya@pragra.com  
908, Aksaht Tower, Nr. ICICI Bank
Opp. Rajpath Club, S.G. Highway
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India 380054
Tel. +91.7926871353
Creation Date: 08-May-2008
Expiration Date: 08-May-2009
Domain servers in listed order: ns5.znetindia.com ns4.znetindia.com
(Source: http://whois.domaintools.com/intellisourze.com )
Though scam calls from these crooks have been going on long before May 8, the frequency of complaints about these calls increased considerably after Crosby was shut down in early April.
This is conjecture, but appearances suggest that Crosby and company were originally running a two-pronged payday loan scam operation -- with some calls being made from Jacksonville, Florida and other calls being made from a phone bank in India (and possibly other countries); then, after the Florida Attorney General shut down the Crosby scams in Florida, the Crosby crooks transferred most of their scam efforts to the India phone bank.
If you are targeted by these criminals, be sure to report them to all the following federal and state law enforcement agencies (most of which you can do online or over the phone):
1.    The U.S. Secret Service is responsible for protecting the country's financial infrastructure and payment systems from international and domestic threats. Call or write your local Secret Service field office to alert them to the details of this attempted extortion. The addresses and phone numbers for the local Secret Service field offices are listed at http://www.secretservice.gov/field_offices.shtml or in your phone book.
2.    Alert the FBI at https://tips.fbi.gov Be sure to tell the FBI that you are being targeted by extortionists over the phone. And if the crooks claim to be law enforcement or lawyers, officers of the court or bankers, be sure to include that information in your report.
3.    File a complaint with your local police. Most police departments will take a report over the phone.  Be sure to tell them that you're being targeted by an extortionist and give them all the details.
4.    File a complaint your state's attorney general, the contact information for whom is at www.wvago.gov
5.    File a complaint online with The Federal Trade Commission at https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en
If these crooks call back, promise them nothing, pay them nothing and tell them nothing other than that you know they're a scam and that you've reported them to law enforcement. (And be sure to report them to all the agencies above each time they call you.)
By the way, here's just a small sample of numbers used by this particular group of scammers. Read the reports and you'll see the same pattern time and again -- phony organization names, thick foreign accents, and oddly worded threats that are so melodramatic and ridiculous that it's laughable:

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-925-262-1327
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-678-954-6346
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-341-4004
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-856-831-0640
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-949-743-1140
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-410-505-8128
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-917-464-2534
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-210-858-6602
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-775-2121
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-949-743-1156
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-245-1402
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-245-0922
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-723-5572
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-2863
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-718-831-7157
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-2857
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-858-244-0444
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-954-678-9724
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-610-571-3252
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-310-909-8245
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-310-499-9983

Is this weird. this just happened to me the mans name was james something and he said the same thing to me. I am going to report this a***ole. he not only called my family and cell, but my job and that's a big mistake.