Middle Eastern Scammer !!!!!!..I got the same exact calls last year around this time ,same message and all. I just kept telling me off and they stopped .But started again today.....same crap ...I hope people dont actually fall for this....I know I never took a cash advance or loan so I know its BS. Last year I had a very powerful friend research it and it came back Scam from India ....its a differant number this year but same crap. I will just continue to tell him off .SCAM SCAM SCAM

These people have no filter first they call me telling me that this is an attorneys office and that he is an officer looking to have me arrested for an unpaid debt of $800 i told him i didnt know what this is he tells me that if i do not pay this debt that in a few hours they will have police officers at my place of work to have me arrested inform my job and terminate me that i will not be able to work for 7 years and that i will not be able to get my tax returns for 7 years over 800 dollar debt that i stole WTF i called my lawyer since they theatend to have me arrested he informed me that this is all a bunch of BS they are just trying to scare you give them my number i will adjust them for you, when i attempted to give them his number they put someone else on the phone and then another person got on the phone i jus hung up Im over this bi*** calling me

I've been receiving calls like this numerous times a day as well.  Last eve, I received 6 phone calls in a period of 10 minutes, on the 7th phone call, I called the number back and cussed out the guy who had been calling incesantly!!  I am about sick of it!!  I'm reporting it to the State Police Fraud Division as instructed by a local Sheriff that I know!!  These people need to be taken down and forced to pay back what they have embezzled and threatened people to pay them!!

I recieved a call from a Jack Baoilor said he was with the law firm  Financial Crimes Dept . Said that money was owed for  a loan I ask him for verifcation so I could talk with my bank and  compare notes  he  got mad  

this guy has an Indian accent  and when he called back I   told him I was giving the imformation to local authorites to follow up  

Reading all these post  this guy uses many alias and  companies to try to get money out of  working class Americans  , please don't fall for this    they  have to send you something in writing  by mail  

I am keeping a list of  all these people and numbers  and  will  forward to  proper authorities to follow up  they cannot threaten people like they  do

I just got this call from this unknown number and they left this very threatening message on my answering machine. So I called the number very calmly and asked what this was in regards to and they said i owed money to a payday loan site and i had to pay $5000 to rectify the situation...lol. I said ok and asked what company it was for and he would never tell me. So i hung up but i got very angry and called back and laid into them about there tactics and that it was illegal to be calling leaving threatening messages and I would never take a loan for an ammount that i was not able to pay back immediately....I let them know i was going to call the FBI and let them handle the matter.

Let them know you are aware they are running an extortion scam, are recording their phone conversation and are turning them into law enforcement, the FTC and your attorney.

this guy calls and threatens you with a thick indian accept and says he is alan robersts. he has called my job in the past and my boss reported him. he went away for 6 months and now is back. this has to stop.

They are calling my work ,  Dexter Brown called and said he was calling from the "The Attorney General" and  FBI and that they wanted me to pay them for a bad loan I had.  I told them to keep talking as I was recording the message.  I have hundreds of documented calls from every one of the these scammers- I have had my account hacked into and I have had to close the account.  They continually call and I continually block the calls.  They are rude, disrespectful and Thieves.  It is not right we have to put up with these types of calls at work, home and then they get away with stealing money out of our accounts.  I hope our  government is reading these.  I have contacted my senator, congressman and sent them copies of the documented calls and what these people say.  Only thing we can do is assist in getting rid of these criminals to the best of our abilities.  Hopefully they are stopped soon.

NO MINE COMES ON MY CELL AS RESTRICTED...AND THE CALLER HAS AN MEXICAN VOICE. AND IS VERY RUDE,WHEN I CALLED THE NUMBER THE LADY AT CUSTOMER SERVICE WAS ALOT NICER,BUT STILL DIDN;T GIVE A LOT OF INFO OUT.JUST THAT SOMEONE WOULD DELIVER A
PAPER TO ME AND I COULD SETTLE THIS IN COURT..AND THEN SETTLE UP WITH THEM..
WHICH NEVER HAPPENED.HOPEFULLY I'VE HEARD THE LAST FROM THEM....

just to let you know that this is definarely a scam,this is monday aug 27-2012 and no one called and no one served me anything of anykind.and no more phone calls since..786-752-3755.hopefully they got stopped..

I had a call from them also.  The person had a very heavy middle eastern accent by the James Watson.  Claiming the same junk.  The FTC, the FBI, and local authories need to know about this because it deals with identity theft, fraud, and no telling what else.  These same people call me weeks ago about the same thing and from different numbers.  And some how they can hack into your cell phone and it will show as an emergency call.  WATCH OUT FOR THOSE SNEEKING RATS!!!!!!!

i recieved a call today saying i was being charged with 3 counts of fraud,fraudent website,and fraudent bank account.from a company called instacash which doesn't exsist and i've never had or applied for.they also said come monday morning they will come find me and serve me.i told them i never recieved any papers from anyone involved with this company..got 2 calls today from 786-752-3755.has anyone ever been served on this kind of call????my account will prove the facts,,

got a message from allan roberts this morning marked restricted.message says call 786-752-3755 pretty much said the same as all yours ,calling my work (which i don't have) retired .harrashing my phone.gonna change my number again for the umteenth time.because they just won't stop.must give them a thrill i guess.
anyway the number just rings and rings.no answering.i hope they give up soon.i don't have a bank account anymore because of people like these..ignore and don't answer any calls you don't know

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.

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I received the same message and unfortunately these people of india tribes have stolen money from my credit card without authorization.  They stated I owed money and I told them I don't.  I have closed all accounts,  Dexter Brown had called and asked not to be reported.  He is a thief.  Also they have given a number 302 894 3496 and called themselves not financial crime but I.F. Services In. They are also operating for Ameriloan too.  Be aware.  The person wanted me to take a picture of myself and send it to them and my credit card number.  I told them no and I am going to the police.  These people needs to be investigated immediately

I received the same call and they said they were from I.F. Services Inc.  They have my information too.

Dexter Brown stole money from my account authorized.

Got that call today.I TOLD them to give me their number and i'd have my local PD call them back.She asked me why my lawyer can't do it..Now I know I don't owe money to the point that somebody would be chasing me,subpeona,loan sharks, whatever.. I especially know I never borrowed money from any Indian...

wont tell me why they are calling

this same number clled my wife today and threatned her with jail time and said that he will spread the news to her job how she will go to jail for this he didnt id himself or tell her and amt it souded very funny do to this person being from another country i googled the number and found out this was a scam please contact us at 904-900-3992

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.Call Type: Debt Collector

A Dexter Brown says he's from Financial Crime Unit has been calling my place of work since yesterday. Leaving threatening messages that I'll be sent to jail if I don't pay 976.00 to a instacash loan since they were the ones who pressed charges but they won't actually tell me how much I owe. If I don't pay up I'll be sent to jail either from my home or place of employment. Also they wanted me to give them my account information so it could be debted out of my account that is NOT going to happen. He also said that I need an attorney and pay fees up to $8,000.00 dollars. I already filed a report from local police they also told me it's a scam trying to get information out of you.

Yes I recived a call from Ron Williams and Dexter Brown and they made threatening statements that they were going to have trown in jail for bank fraud and they had my soc. number bank account number. the funny thing is that I am already my payments to a collection angency. I will report them to the FBI

This dexter keep calling my job and cell number,I called him back stating my rights,He asked my employer number and i told him he calls it everyday he should know,He hung up on me,So i called him back hung up again,so i called back,Now he stated he is taking me to court and wont send me any papers,Wont tell me the company he is from,So i closed my account the bank has turned this in to fbi,Fbi said there are alot of complates on this number,My sister lives in florida she looked this number up it is not listed it is not a law firm,

I got a phone call from a Norman , Saying im going to jail etc over 1, 45.00 I said sir I did not ever put a   loan in for that ! He said well be looked to be picked up BUT IF ANYTHING LIKE THIS HAPPEN it is civil court not criminal . !

Dexter Brown is who I have been trying to get legal information from regarding the charges he said are being brought against, I keep telling him I need the legal documents to give my lawyer, he just replays with be patient. Called from 786-752-3755

I have recieved phone calls from this number since Monday July 31st. He says is name is Dexter Brown and he wa from financal crime and that I had a payday loan out and I was not paying it and they have been trying to get ahold of me. He said there was a warrent out for my arrest if I didnt pay the $8000 or pay some kind of payment. He sounded foreign islamic very rude,calling me names yelling at me because I wasnt listening to him. He has all my personal information. He calls my job harrasses me there and calls even when I not working and harrases the staff. I canceled my debit card and will shut down my bank account but even cancelling that stuff doesnt mean he can harm in other ways. Its scary that he has all that information! The Dexter calls me non stop! Some one needs to find this a**hole and give him what he deserves. I dont even have a payday loan with this instacash thats were he says its from. Then I called the law enforcement because the calls we aweful and the police called this number and again talked to Dexter Brown and he said the exact same thing he told me and that it was going to go to his legal department. I recieved a call from this office and I would never have imagined that a police officer would go right along with this a**hole! What the hell I mean if our police cant even tell the difference then what the heck are they there for!  I mean the officer told me that I just need to pay the amount so that he leaves you alone. Well ok yeah lets give him my info and he can take my money and yeah he will go away because he got what he wanted! This has been very scary and  I hope that some one gets a hold of this guy  and does something because this is aweful to have happen to you!

keeps calling my number and threatening me , tried calling the number back and got nothing.

yes it is they can not demand any money unless you receive paperwork in the mail. i have received the same phone call from a mr.officer jackson and said i had to pay an amount in two hours and if not i go to jail and they would take my son to . I contacted the police and they told me to tell them to remove my name from the list and do not call again. do not send money just tell them you are contacting the police they will hang up.

i have receieved numerous calls from 7867523755 stating that i will arrested on my job if i dont pay for a payday loan that i got over 7 years ago. man was very rude and nasty. told me that i needed to not speak until he was finished with what he had to say then i could then ask questions. said he was calling for MIcheal Sinclair and his name was Mr. Brown. being of Islamic decenst i find it hard to believe his name is Mr. Brown, they call everyday all day long. my loan waws with Insta Cash and when i ask when this was he couldn't provide dates for me just keep asking if i wanted to do jail time and that i needed to sent him a fax stating the i would never do this again(267-645-0472)fax number. that amount that i owed was 786.36.. i dont recall ever having a loan with this company.