I have just received a call from a "Steve Jones" who wished me good luck if I or an attorney doesn't call them back to discuss this "time sensitive issue".  These people are also calling my job, which is forbidden.

They just called and hung on me.  Never got to talk to a person.  I don't even owe anything so I got no idea why they are calling me

Fools won't quit calling and hanging up before I get to answer.  Twice I did answer and heard a hang up

Calling my job/cell phone #.  Foreginers w/ indian accents claiming their names are "bill smith".  Making threatning calls if I do not turn myself in, bad things will happen.  If I'm not mistaken, they are a collection agency doing illegal activity.  I forget the name of this so called company, but they constantly change their phone number.

called my work told me to have my laywer or me call them back on a urgent legal matter will not stop calling my work

I WENT ON LINE AND SIGNED IN TO THE INTELIUS AND PAID TO GET A PHONE REPORT ON THIS NUMBER AND IF THEY COULD NOT FIND ANY REPORTS THEN YOU WERE NOT CHARGED. WELL GUESS WHAT  NOTHING WAS FOUND AND MY ACCOUNT WAS REMBURSED. SO IF THEY ARE SOME BIG CRIMANAL PLACE YOU THINK THERE WOULD BE SOME KIND OF PHONE REPORT ON THEM. IF THEY CALL BACK LET YOUR BOSS TELL THEM THAT THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED TO CALL ANY MORE. OTHER THEN THAT IF THEY TELL YOU THAT THERE GOING TO BRING CHARGES AGAINST YOU JUST WHAT EVER AND HANG UP.  I AM NOT GOING TO SEND THEM ANY THING.

they called my former employer asking for me. he said it was a very serious matter and they needed to get a hold of me a.s.a.p. the guy had a accent from india and said he was calling from jacksonville, florida. at first he wouldnt give his information, but insisted on getting any information about me. now im not sure if he said his company name or if it was on the caller i.d. but this was it: christianson and nichols assoc. or chistensen nichols assoc. the clerk asked for his badge# and a case#, which he later gave. she gave him NO information about me. she said he had my ss# and other personal information.

HOW DO YOU GET THEM TO STOP CALLING YOU

I RECUVE SEVERAL PHONE CALLS AND THEY EVEN CALLED MY BOSS AND LEFT HIM A MSG SAYING THAT I WAS GOING TO GET ARRESTED ON THE NEXT DAY DUE TO CRIMANAL CHAGES THIS IS A SCAM I CALLED THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OFFICE AND THEY SAID THAT THIS IS A SCAM 1ST IT IS ILLEGAL TO CALL AND GIVE PRIVATE INFORMATION TO ANYONE YOU WORK WITH THEY CALL FROM ALL KINDS OF NUMBERS I KNWO THAT YOU CANT GET ARRESTED FOR OWEING ANY KIND OF DEBT. I JUST WANT TO KNOW HOW TO MAKE THESE CALLS STOP DOES ANY ONE KNOW HOW TO STOP THEM.

Received a phone message on my work # from a person that I could not make out his name because of his speech. He sounded Hispanic and I did not understand what his name.  However, his message was "I need to return his phone call or my attorney immediately and that I should not disregard the message and that he wishes me good luck".

They have been calling me for almost two years. Telling me that I need to settle this debt or I will face charges. I told him I would call him back and never did.

HI IF YOU READ MY BLOG UP AT THE TOP. WHEN THEY CALLED ME THE AOTHER DAY I LET HIM TALK TO MY SUPERVISOR, AND I'VE TOLD HER ALL ABOUT IT. SO SHE SAID THE NEXT TIME THEY CALL SHE WOULD TELL THEM THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED TO CALL HERE ANY MORE.  AND THANKS TO ec I PULLED UP THE INFO HE SENT AND IT IS EXACTLEY THE SAME PLACE THAT THERE CALLING ME FROM. USNBANK  AND SOME CRIME DIVISION THE HE SAYS IN IN MARYLAND. SO UNTIL THEY CAN SEND ME PROOF OF WHAT I OWE I JUST HANG UP ON THEM.

Several calls over the last three months to my desk at a US federal government agency in DC. Caller asks for a former employee by name (not myself). Each time they have been told the employee no longer works here. This time an actual phone number came up on the caller id (instead of a generic switchboard/extension/id) so I Googled it and landed here. Not always the same caller but typically heavily accented and often recognizable as the same from an earlier call -- sometimes multiple calls in the same day.

caller keeps calling my job and harrassing me about notifying my supervisor and human resource.leaving messages with my co workers and putting my business out there stating that he is calling from a lawyers office.

It's a scam based in India, and all their threats are false and illegal. See my message below for details as to their identity and how to report them to federal and state law enforcement.

It's a scam, and all their threats are false and illegal. ABC News and the West Virginia Attorney General have warned consumers about this scam; here are the links:

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5621205&page=1
http://www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam.cfm

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, Legal Affidavit, Hopkins Law Office, United Legal Processing, Morgan Associates, Sonic Bank, 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 (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.naag.org

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/1-321-221-0018
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-408-404-1520
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-901-328-9342
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-908-244-2001

"Andy Smith" with a weird accent (I'm so sure that was his name...lol) called my cell and threatened to send police to my job regarding "pending legal action".  I could hear another guy in the background reading the same script about a half of a sentence behind in the background.  I have been getting these calls off and on for over a year now and since I don't owe anyone money, no one is getting it from me.

Called left message on my answering macine saying if is very important
that I or my lawayer call them back it is very improtat. It seems like they are reading some type of script. I get calls from differen 800 number even on my job. They just won't stop.

The first time they called my job they had me in tears saying that if I did not pay this amount now that they were sending the cops to my job to lock me up. I borrowed the money from an uncle and wired them the money and when I called to confirm that they received the money they said that I owe more for another account and I need to pay now. I told them I do not have anymore money so I can not pay. They have recently started calling my job again, if I answer and it is them I tell them I am not here. After the first incident I reached out to leagal counsel and I was informed that they can not send anyone to lock me up. But regardless they are still calling.