I received a call from a Chris watkins And was told first I would have to pay 498 dollars or legal action would Be persued when I had only 2 loans out with minimum payments established.  They lowered it to 275 I was scared they would actually come after me. I have paid 165 of the 275 so far And feel if I don't finish they will use it against me that I payed something. Afterwards I get these harassing calls from other numbers saying I received 4500 And threatening FBI And shotguns if I didn't pay back funds I didn't receive And I called Chris Watkins And he took the number down n said he'd take care of it to ignore them. I don't know who to call to stop this. I'm never applying for online payday loans again.  Even legit ones. Wat if this guy bothers me after I get him his remaining 105? I don't wanna feel defenseless  . They say they were us cash .then payday advanced.  I feel like changing my phone number after I'm done w this Watkins. His number is 7076370745 don't go through wat I Did!

scam big time !!

i am sick of the calls saying i will be put in jail because of some money i never even got

I have recieved numerous call calls from these people, they say I owe money for a loan that THEY
say I went to a Western Union and picked up, they refuse to send me a copy of the Western Union
document showing where I sign for the money, because supposible this is the evidenece for the the day the take me to court and they also refuse to tell me the location of the Western Union where I went to collect the money..  ThIS IS A SCAM.  I have been in contact with the Federal Trade Commission ( and I have a case number from FTC)  and also have spoken with
another government agencies, include my local Police Department.  This is the number I have been recieving calls from   1 760 457 2203

A guy called and threaten me on my voicemail and said if i dont call him back or my lawyer he gonna take legal action against me

I keep getting calls from a "Nick Austin" too, and he makes many of the same claims. I plan on reporting this illegitimate law firm to the FTC, and I encourage anyone else who receives these calls to report them too. Also, if you think you know the source that disclosed your information to this fraudulent organization, I'd recommend mentioning that in your report to the FTC. The FTC does not investigate individual cases; however, the more people who file reports, the easier it is for the FTC to build investigations.

Here's a link to the FTC site: https://www.FTCComplaintAssistant.gov/. There's also a number if you prefer to call and speak to someone: 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357), 1-877-ID-THEFT (1-877-438-4338).

I just got a call from a Christopher Watkins saying that they are filing charges against me for a cash advance.  I asked him what company he was with and it took him 40 minutes to finally tell me Oakview Law Group.   He told me the "advance" was from US Cash advance.  He said I cannot contact them but they are online.  He said that I have to send a Western Union payment of $789.00 to a Rich Perna in Dulutch, GA.  He said that I have to send the money to this individual and not to a company.

What scares me is he has my social security number, my phone number, my place of employment, and my email address.  He finally got fed up with me asking him questions and he hung up on me.

Who can I call?

Got a call from Christopher Watkins saying that they are filing a case against me for not paying back a cash advance.  I ask him his company he says if Oakview law firm at 51 grand st sandiego Ca  90011.  I ask him who I borrowed the money from he said  US Cash advance.  I ask him for their contact information and he says they are on line.  I inform him that even online companies have adresses and phone numbers and that I would love to contact them to find out where and when I borrowed the money and that if I do owe them money I would love to have the opportunity to resolve the matter before going to court.  He then hung up on me.  I called back and spoke to Stan Lee he informed that someone will come to my home tomorrow and drag me to court.  I again ask for the information on the loan and he became beligerent and hung up on me.   Who can I contact with this information.

This Indian sounding man phones my office over and over for 2 hours straight threatening that he hopes I lose my job and then demanding to speak to my manager.  There has to be someone to go to regarding this type of harassement.

I received a call from this number looking for my husband and said his name is nick austin frorm the dept of investigation he has my husband social sec # and said if he doesnt return the call he will face legal consequences in our county.
Why are these people doing this? What scares me is that they have his full soc sec #. How can we stop this????

i received the same call and turned it into my attorney

I received a phone call at my place of employment.  The gentleman first said his name is "Paul Brown", from a lawyers office and i ask what it was regarding and what lawyers office - he would not answer me.    He told me that he needed my attorney's phone number and he could not discuss any futher information with me.  I told him to take my work number off the list and not to call me back at work.  Then "Paul Brown", told me he was with the attorney general's office. Paul's supervisor then said I owed 412.00 from us cash advance. The supervisor said he would gather information from my social to fax documents containig this "issue." I hope they get busted... uuuuggghhhh!!

Dont pay no mind to them They can in no way put you in jail And if you did have an old bill not paid In Texas the statue of limitation is 4 years after that they cant do nothing

Thx

Rob

That number is going on and on. The person that called me is called Christopher Watkins.threatening.. hard to understand.. said they are taking legal action against my social and then revealed the last four of my social. report this number and person to your local authorities.Caller: 7604572203
He says he is from the department of law and my case file is being downloaded into NC county court system. Contact me back if you want more information or this

Hi uumm sorry but i just wanted to say that that it the same guy the keep calling me and he calls like 30 times aday. OMG he just dont stop i just started laughing at him. He cant give me a date or anything. this is really a joke right..!!???

Even scam artists are outsourcing. On Tuesday in its first crackdown on fraudulent telemarketing in South Asia, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it was shutting down two California-based companies that used a call center in India to defraud Americans out of more than $5 million over the past two years.

Workers in India made threatening calls to Americans getting them to pay money on debts that they didn't owe, the FTC charges. At an FTC press conference in Chicago on Tuesday, fraud victim JanLaree DeJulius explained that she had received a call from someone claiming to be an enforcement officer from the (phony) "Federal Department of Crime and Prevention," who threatened to have her arrested and have her wages garnished if she didn't pay a bill of more than $730. The scam artists had gotten her name and information from a payday loan her ex-husband had taken out in her name.

"It was very embarrassing," Dejulius said. "He knew everything about me so I agreed to set up an installment." She is not alone. According to the FTC, more than 8 million calls were made since 2010 and at least 17,000 transactions processed across the United States related to the global scam.

On Tuesday under request from the FTC, a U.S. District Court in Chicago stopped the international operation, charging Varang K. Thaker and two companies he owned, American Credit Crunchers, LLC, and an affiliate Ebeeze, LLC, with violating the FTC Act and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.

"This is a brazen operation based on pure fraud, and the FTC is committed to shutting it down," said David Vladeck, director of the FTC's consumer protection bureau. "Consumers should not be pressured into paying debt they don't remember owing. Legitimate debt collectors must provide consumers with both written information about the debt, and instructions for protecting themselves if they don't think they owe the debt."

According to the FTC's charges, Thaker used Social Security numbers and bank account numbers obtained from payday lenders to identify the victims for his scam. He outsourced the work to an Indian call center, where workers made threatening calls to American consumers to pay fake debt or collect on bills for which they were not authorized.

Thaker was not available when contacted by telephone on Tuesday. A woman who claimed to be Thaker's older sister and asked not to be named for privacy reasons said he is working with the FTC to help the Indian government pursue the fraudster call center operators. She also said he was innocent in the scam. "He was being used by somebody. He didn't even know where they got the information," she told The Huffington Post by phone. She said that her brother got 10 percent of the earnings from the scam operation.

The FTC charges against Thaker are the latest in a series of police actions by the government agency to put an end to rogue debt collection operations that have become more frequent in the aftermath of the Great Recession. In January, the FTC struck a $2.5-million settlement with debt-buying company Asset Acceptance, LLC, charging that the company had falsely represented itself to customers, including making up phantom debts that customers no longer owed. Last October, the FTC filed a complaint against seven other fraudulent debt collectors, alleging that they had engaged in the same techniques -- demanding money from customers who owed nothing at all.

The growing number of Americans who are unable to pay their bills has meant there are more companies looking to profit from their economic difficulties.

Debt collectors have been taking more aggressive tactics as fewer people are able to make ends meet or are in a cycle of debt. More than 30 million Americans are in debt collection, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Since 2010, more than 4,000 complaints have been filed with the FTC and state attorneys general about fraudulent debt collection calls, the FTC said.

Charles Junitkka, a personal bankruptcy attorney who represents clients in the New York City area, said, "In the last few years, the desperation of the collectors and their efforts have intensified because of the economy."

This story has been updated to reflect comment from a woman who says she is the sister of Varang Thaker. Thaker himself was unavailable for comment.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/21/ftc- ... _n_1289751.html

I received a phone call at my place of employment.  The gentleman first said his name is "Paul Brown", from a lawyers office and i ask what it was regarding and what lawyers office - he would not answer me.    He told me that he needed my attorney's phone number and he could not discuss any futher information with me.  I told him to take my work number off the list and not to call me back at work.  Then "Paul Brown", told me he was with the attorney general's office and told me good luck with whatever may happen to me.  I have reported it to my employer and hopefully they will not call back.

That number is going on and on. The person that called me is called Christopher Watkins.

These people are driving me nuts. Any agency just sends u to bad credit when u don't pay them. I just hope the police gets them. They are stupid if we believe them.

i keep getting a call from this number.  the gentleman says his name is john marshall and that i took out sorta payday loan cash loan.  i do not recognize.  he has my name my telephone number and the place i work.  he will not give meany other information but states the cops or the sheriff of my county are going to come and arrest me.   he has called my work number also.  just about every other day he calls and threatens me with this piece of information.  

when you ask him if he has any documentation to this transaction, he dosen't give you a concrete answer.  only just keeps repeating him self and then he just hangs up.  

i have tried to call this number back and it states that this mailbox is not receiving any incoming calls and the mail box is full and all of a sudden you hear a busy signal.

THIS PEOPLE KEEP CALLING ME SAYING THAT I RECEIVED MONEY IN MY ACCOUNT AND I HAVE NEVER EVEN HEARD OF THIS COMPANY. I THINK THIS IS A SCAM AND THESE PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO CALL AND HARRASS PEOPLE ABOUT HOW THEY OWE MONEY AND SO ON

Also, if you live in the US and your phone runs apps, look in your app market for Mr. Number. It's free, and automatically blocks callers that have spam complaints against them.

See the post on whocallsme by ?Scam? (23 Dec 11) under 8043185476. This is a compilation of everything they could find out about these scammers and how to deal with them. Hope it helps.

the same man has called me abut 15x and every time i block a # the would call back from a similar # and leave threating messages on my voicemail

call the fbi.. simple as that

i get a call from7604572203 saying i owe 300 for a pay day loan thay have my social they are crooks

They called me again today and told me I owed $300.00 dollors and since I ahven't paid its now 800.00. They told me that if I don't pay today that they would be sending my information to someone and I would be arrested for faurd. They want me to fax them in writing that I will pay them the money with a copy of my id. They have my ss# number, my work phone number, my address. I don't know who these people are but there scaring me.

They kept calling me and leaving message saying I owe them 1500. If I dont pay up, They will sue me over 10.000 . They have file lawsuit against my social sercurity threathen to take me to court. So I told kiss my f****n a**.. I told them im calling f.b.i and they will arrest u . He then hug up on me. So then one hour later I call that number again. I told them that I was private investigator. And I know its a scam. So he then hung up... This is f****n.. Scam..i just home this f****r dont have my identy. If they do. I will make sure those f****r will pays for this.i check my credit reports, and there nothing involving with any types of loan or debts.

He left his name as Harry McNeil I believe he said.

I keep getting calls from this number to my cell and to my work. Very demanding saying he is from a lawyers office. VERY hard to understand. I'm scared to call him back.