951 468-0485 Keeps calling me and was very rude telling me that i will put in jail for nine months. i am in the process of calling the BBB and my states general attorney office.

These people are insane. They have two new numbers now.1}951-708-0369 and 2} 951-708-0406
These people srarted calling me this morning...Saying charges were being pressed against me...Claiming to be the states attorney in CA....DO NOT FALL FOR THIS... IT IS A SCAMMM.I WILL BE PRESSING CHARGES...ASAP

Got a call from someone that said he was the State Attorney for California and that I needed to call 951-281-0351.  Said he was sueing me - I said okay this better be legit as I have been getting calls telling me I needed to get my attorney and call this number.  Everytime I tried the number they gave no one answered.  This time someone answered and said Mr. Jackson (Curtis) was on the phone and would be right with me...he wouldn't tell me what this was in regards too - just said "please hold." I held for about 5 minutes...emailed my daughter and she said hang up, it's a scam.  Getting tired of these people calling me with false charges...what can we do to stop it.  I have changed my number once already and they got it again. The first guy said it had to do with my social security.

I havebeen harrassed for nearly 3 months by the number and a few different numbers, the most recent one (an hour ago) by Mr. Curtis Jackson of the state attorneys office in California. Stating that I owe 350 bucks. He has called my work several tes also. I have no idea how he has my number, my ssn, and also my address. This is really pissing me off. And I will be visiting with my State rep tomorrow and also my local PD. Hopefully I can recieve some answers and end this nonsense.

Don't feel bad. Thousands of others (like you) have also been victimized by this criminal extortion ring operating out of India because these thieves are so convincing. The FTC is prosecuting Kirit Patel, one of their "front" men who has been funneling money from the US to Ahmedabad, India, to fund their operations and have seized his assets. The bad thing is--once the money is sent there is no hope of getting it back because US authorities have no overseas jurisdiction. All they can do is track down the individuals here in the US doing business with Ahmedabad and freeze their assets. This came to light when ABC News aired a story about it on "Nightline" back in June:

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

Well how stupid am I?
I did recieve a call from Curtis Jackson 951-281-0351 saying I owed a balance of 1895.00 to stop alligations against me, otherwise I would be arrested in the next 45 minutes! Since I had been doing legal stuff with an ex I wasn't sure what was going on, so I just followed his directions and handed him 500 bucks!!! Then he requested more saying that was not enough to stop the allogations! But I didn't have anymore to give so I paniced and called my family, they said it sounded like a scam and to call the police directly. So a officer is coming out to the house to take his call.
I feel dumb as sh** right now
Should have done my research and read your posts!!!
Indian accent, very insistant on the matter being of importance.

This ***hole tried to get me to pay $745 by 330 or I was going to jail. He said he had a team of officers coning to take me to jail. What o f***ing do***e bag.

I got 3 calls from this number 760 440 5421 says his name is Josh Matthew and is claiming that he is from the department of legal affairs harrassing me at work and threatening my fellow co workers I told him 3 times stop and he doesnt who is this and how can I get them to stop.

I got a call from curtis jackson saying I  oh for a loan I never took out  but the number was 951-389-0276 after google it I been calling back and playing around with them and they told me to quit harassing them them

He has been calling for a co-worker. Gave me the number 619-272-8318, Frank Morgan. Rude and dumb. Everyone at work just keeps hanging up on him. What is wrong with people???

This happened to me but he is also using now phone number 619-272-8318

I just got the same call from a different number 760-440-5421 same thing with the paralegal. She told me the "attorney's" name was Michael Carter! Pending lawsuit .. same toilet new name and number!

Wow... you can't make this stuff up!

I AM GETTING CALLS FROM THIS NUMBER AT HOME AND AT WORK AND THE GUY SAYS TO CALL BACK RIGHT AWAY OR GOD HELP ME, THEN SAYS GOOD LIUCK AND HANGS UP

Im dealing w/the same thing w/this idiot.  I dont even answer his calls any longer. now using a second number aslo 323-331-9189.  Police told me to keep track/record of harassment and file a report if it persists 10 days.

so ya i started getting these phone calls today at my job and i actually work offsite at a customer location so my supervisor forwards them the our customers phone number to reach me and yet again its an indian fellow who uses the name "john martin" asking for my attorney's name and phon e number
it genuinely freaked me out so i called the guy back from my personal cell phone and now the kat wont answer my calls. what should i do about this being that im in house with a customer and should not recieve personal phone calls here.

I just received 7 calls from 760-269-4172 and they said to give them back a called that this is a very important call that this issues that they have is very in tentative or something like that he had a strong accent and could not understand him. He also said to call them after we hear this message or my lawyer that if we don?t call back the only thing he could say is good luck. I called them and they don?t even answer, there has to be something that we can do. Never had this happened to me.

I RECEIVED THE SAME PHONE CALL TONIGHT, HE INFORMED ME I HAD CHARGES AND HE NEEDED A ATTTORNEY .  HE THREATENED ME BY SAYING i
WOULD BE ARRESTED.  i ASKED HIM WHAT THE AMOUNT OF LOAN WAS AND WHEN AND WHAT BANK HE SAID YOU WILL RECEIVE THIS INFORMATION ON RECEIPT OF PAYMENT.  I WAS ASKING MORE QUESTIONS AND HE HAD NO ANSWERS.  HE SAID I COULD EXPLAIN IT TO THE JUDGE.  I EVEN TOLD HIM I AM A CHEMO PATIENT AND HAVE CANCER HEPUT ME ON HOLD TO SEE IF THERE WAS SOMETHING HE COULD DO AND THEN CAME BACK AND SAID HE SPOKE WITH THE COURT AND THE SAID NO I HAD TO PAY IT ALL IN AN HOUR OR I WOULD BE ARRESTED AT MY WORK OR HOME.  HE DIDNT RELAIZE I HAVE FAMILY IN LAW INFORCEMENT AND I KNOW HOW THINGS WORK.  DUMB A**.  I JUST CANT BELEIVE THAT SOMEONE WOULD STOOP THAT LOW.  BEWARE PEOPLE......

got called at work I said he was lying and I hung up.

funny, i got this call yesterday from this number.... they said i was going to jail, and whatnot to call the number back....well stupid me i kinda flipped out thinking there had to be a mistake...... i called back and got no answer, well i get the call again today and mind you these calls are coming to my job...... well i already figured out it was BS cause i googled the number yesterday..... so i call back today and they want my attorney number when i tell them i have no attorney they asked why i tried to explain i have no attorney and no money or bank account, well i guess that made them sad cause they hung up on me and now wont answer my calls..................... dang it, too bad..... i was hoping to get a loan...lmao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So this number has been calling me for a week, the man (with a very heavy accent) says his name is John Carter (yeah right) and that legal action is being taken against me, when I asked what this was about, he replied with I am not at liberty to discuss it. I told him then this is a scam, I haven't received anything through the mail and that is always the first step. After getting off the phone I checked online and found that everyone is having a similar situation. I checked the bar association of California and the lawyer is not listed .put it under solicitors and made it silent.

I AM SO TIRED OF RECEIVING THESE CALLS NOW THESE PEOPLE ARE CALLING MY JOB I TOLD THE MAN THAT KEEPS CALLING AND CLAIMS HIS NAME IS "MIKE WATSON" AND THAT HE IS "A PARALEGAL" THAT IF HE DOESNT STOP I WOULD GET HIM FOR HARRASSMENT... HE SAID FOR ME TO GO AHEAD I TOLD HIM TO FAX ME THE PAPER WORK AND HE SAID HE COULDNT, SO WHY THE HELL ARE YOU CALLING ME!!!...... WTH IS THAT??? ALL BS AND LIES AND NOW I SEE THAT I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE THESE MF'ERS HAVE BEEN HARRASSING.... THIS IS SAD!!!! I FEEL YALLS FRUSTRATION!!!!

Received a call today from a gentleman claiming that he works for The Attorney General office of California stating I am being sued from Cash Advance USA over a cash loan they said I received in to my bank account and never paid them back. I never applied for any cash loan or payday advance. They went on to tell me that a warrant will be issued in (my town and state) and I will be arrested at my place of work. When I asked for more information they said they would not be able to give me any more information. They knew the last 4 of my SSN my home address, e-mail and my place of work information. After doing research on line I contacted the Attorney General office of California and they informed me that it was a scam the moment I gave the two names of the gentlemen who contacted me. The names are Curtis Jackson and Kevin Lloyds.

I just got a call from John Anderson, he said I was being sued and that I have criminal charges. I told him why wasn't I mailed anything, that it was all BS and he said my name and said please call 760-269-4172 and ask for Curtis Jackson, that he is assisting him on this case.

I called back the number just now and it works... straight to voice mail- like a call phone. So confused right now about what's going. Called my cell phone, left a message and called my work number and that's where he told me the above... how are they getting my information?

Ok this guy calls me everyday saying that I have a legal matter and that me or my retained attorney to return the call. He says his name is Jordan Smith and if I do not return the call then all he can do is wish me good luck.  How do I make this guy stop?  I have called it back and told him to leave me alone and do not call me back and then the next day he calls again!!

I receive several calls (on my cell and work phone) from this number 1-760-269-4172 and another number 1-714-515-5474 (sounds like the same Mr. Smith) claiming I and/or my attorney must call them.  Threatening that they will serve me paper by sheriff in the morning.  They have alot of personal info that I need to find out how they got.  When you try to ask them questions of what this is concerning they ignore you and ask you to confirm other personal info (name, DOB, SS #, etc..).   After calling me several times (and after I hung up on him, he called back again asking "did you hang up on me?") I told him I looked this number up and know it is a scam and that I am going to hang up on him again, and if he continued to call me I would turn him in for fraud.  My phone has been quiet for 20 minutes now.  Lets see how long it lasts.

I got the same thing yesterday. I told them to call the cops and tell them to pick me up. Its sad when you apply for a small payday loan and jerks like this get your information. They knew my place of employment and all. I put a fraud alert on my bank account for these morons. I also am in the process of filing a report on them. They keep playing with people. Well they have the right ones. The information associated with this number is Victoria Sikora the address is 3932 Tivoli Ave, Los Angeles, CA. I'm in the process of having a police officer that I know looking into this. They are such idiots. When I asked the name of their firm, these idiots told me ..and I quote..."c*** in your mouth law firm"...He's luck i'm not seeing him cuz his would definitely be in his mouth. Then he cussed me out when I told him I will be filing a lawsuite on them.

I received a call from this same person stating basically the same thing. He put me on hold so I hung up on  him. Now I will be filing a criminal Complaint with the State Attorney General,

These goofs called my job and phone with their a law firm B.S. he asked me to call the number back. I I did and told him I knew it was a scam he hung up and I called back he got pissed and called me a mother f***er.

Love the YouTube vids.

SAME PERSON CALLS FROM 323-679-2397, HAS BEEN CALLING ME FOR ABOUT A WEEK NON STOP. KNOWS MY SOCIAL AND WHERE I LIVE AND WHERE I WORK. HE HAS THREATENED ME OVER AND OVER, EVEN WHEN I REQUEST HE STOPS CALLING. HE CALLED MY WORK SO MUCH, MY BOSS FINALLY GOT ON THE PHONE AND THREATENED TO HAVE HIM ARRESTED. WE CALLED THE POLICE AND ALL THEY COULD DO WAS TAKE A REPORT. I HAVE MADE REPORTS IN TWO DIFFERENT COUNTIES, ONE AT MY WORK AND ONE AT MY HOME. I HAVE PUT A FRAUD ALERT ON MY CREDIT REPORT. ANY OTHER ADVISE? ANYTHING ELSE I CAN DO TO GET THIS GUY ARRESTED? HE LEFT MY SOCIAL ON A VOICEMAIL BOX AT WORK, AND WHO KNOWS WHERE ELSE HE IS LEAVING IT! SOMEONE CALLS YOU OVER 100 TIMES AND THREATENS YOU, SOME OF THEM RECORDED ON MY VOICEMAIL AND THE POLICE CANT DO ANYTHING??? SURELY THERE IS SOMETHING THAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT THIS GUY