I received a call today, The conversation started off by him asking if I received any legal paperwork. I asked who he was and he stated "Kevin Gibson" from Federal Crime Investigation Department. I asked what agency? He didn't answer and demanded I  get a pen and paper to write down a warrant ID and case file number. I asked him what this was regarding and he told me to quit interrupting him. I asked again what agency he was with and he starting yelling at me. He then read off what he said were my charges according to the affidavit, fraud of some sort and something else relating to US Bank. His accent was so strong that I was unable to understand what he was saying. He was extremely rude so I hung up on him. He called back and left a threating message - That if I didn't call him back at 607-767-7691 in 30 minutes, He would have the police come to my home nd have me arrested and would come to my work and I would lose my job.  REALLY?  I filed a harassing phone call  report on that number.

got call from 901-347-4002  with caller ID (voice network ork i):

Person with Indian accent wanted $2900 cash payment or threatened to send sheriff to the house.
Claimed to be from Federal Investigation Unit , Tennessee. I asked for their address several times but he disconnected the phone. after i called 4th time he gave me some bogas address and hug up the call.

your absolutely right thats exactly what did doing they have a new number that they are calling from 178- 398-9363 please be aweared as it this is also a scam

The federal trade commission website he scam me also and then asked if I was on face book and sent me a friend request under the name of taha hirani little odd that a debt collector would face book you right I'm only 22 and payed him because I didnt know what to do and then finally went to police after reading a article in the paper about this not much they can do but it's a big relief to know I'm not going to jail and don't owe any money

Im 22 years old and got the same call and didn't know what to do so I paid him and then a few months later he called my home number and told all this to my mom and she was mad at me lol but she went to the police they can't really arrest them because they don't actually know where or who these people are but the cops assured me I would not go to jail for something like this the only time you would is if you stole money report them to the federal trade commission not much they can do but it might help

Do not give these guys info! They are taking names off teletrack and harrassing people posing as 3rd party collections or worse. I contacted my original debtor and found they have not assigned my account to any agency and have gotten calls about them previously. Luckily my card was declined for the amout they charged. I contacted my bank and this is what i found out about them when i had the fraud dept look up the transaction:

All American Services
Hicksville, NY, 11801
Acceptor ID for the CC transaction was 028100143705001

We have been recieving the SAME kind of phone calls from this # wanting our debit/credit information and saying that my husband has 3 felony charges against him THIS IS A SCAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When I called they couldn't even tell me the name of the company and just kept asking me my name and my phone # so that he can call me back. Has a very bad foreign accent that we can hrdly understand and has been impersonating an officer as well. Police officers do NOT EVER MAKE COLLECTIONS CALLS. He wanted my husband to fax his debit information and pay $786.00 BY FRIDAY!!!!!! HAHAHAAHAHA what a joke!

i recieve the same phone call this guy is so crazy i dont know how he got my infomation

I GOT THE SAME KIND OF CALL FROM AN OFFICER ROBIN GARCIA, BUT HE SOUNDED LIKE HE WAS FROM JAMAICA WITH A HISPANIC NAME.....I TOLD HIM THAT I WAS NOT AVAILABLE AND HE SAID THAT I NEED TO CALL BACK THEN HE GAVE ME A PHONE NUMBER OF 786-866-9155 HOW DO I REPORT THIS? IS IT A SCAM?

I'm receiving threatening and annoying phone calls from "Off. Ron Collins" from the "Financial Crimes Unit". He calls my work phone and pages my work pager repeatedly throughout the day. He calls wanting to read an "affidavit", but when I insist I don't know what he is talking about, he continues to attempt reading the "charges" and says I'm being sued for several different federal and/or financial crimes. I can barely understand his english, so he put his "supervisor" on the phone, but it sounds like the same person. When I tell him I'm at work and not to call me, he calls me right back or pages me again.

Today, he left a message which I saved; He was threatening to humilate me at my workplace and around my place of residence.  I alarmed my husband and now my husband is leaving threatening calls to him after he googled the phone number and found out THIS IS A SCAM. I don't know who he is or who he is working with, but he's very demanding.

I still don't know the point of his phone calls or how he got my information. He only says the last 4 digits of my SS# and reads me my e-mail address. I figured if this was legit, they would be calling me at home and having a summons delivered via the U.S. Postal Office.

DO NOT GIVE HIM ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION AND DO NOT CALL HIM BACK WITH AN UNBLOCK NUMBER.
Caller ID: 786-866-9155
Caller: "Officer Ron Collins

well the 786 is from puerto rico. maybe that can help all of you :]

I received a call from an Officer Jon Meyer stating that I had better call him back, he had the last 4 of my social security.  What is this all about.  Should I ignore?  He said he was going to call my employer.  

Does this guy just go away if you ignore?

Thanks

Boy am I glad that you had this on here.  I got this call too at 7:30 am on a day when I actually could sleep in.  I couldn't understand much of what he said.  Where should I report him?

I received calls from this individual first with the name Mathew telling me that i will go to jell if I don't pay $26,000.00 to a student loan. In the first call he didn't have my SS# and other information. He was trying to get those info but I didn't answer to his question, I told to my lawyer what is going on and he called him but he hang off the phone to my lawyer. Yesterday, he called me again under the name Justin wilson. He was talking to me in a disrespecful way, asking me if I am married or have boyfriend, that if i am a good girl. He was trying to make me pay $800 from direct to my account. i told him i will call later and he start screaming at me to give him my check account or he will send me to court to pay $26,000.00.

The number that he gave me is 786-866-9155

He scared me to much telling that i will loose my properties, car, my money in the bank, that i went to take all my money out, in case.

My question is, what we can do to this kind of people? How to find them and press charges on them, this have to be ilegal. And the best question is, How the find all that information about us? Can we really get information about anybody that easily? what he can do with all our informations?

I rec'd a call last week from a guy stating he was from the Crime Investigation...hin name Jeff Logan. He had a BAD accent I could barley understand him and he gave me a case#NV****. He threaten me with fraud, etc. and was going to call my father and friends whose names he said were correct information. How does someone get that information about me? He demanded money from me. and like a stupid person I gave it to him. He called back the next day with a cormifation # and now I am calling my bank to see if this confirmation # matches what he told by phone. I have kept ALL phone message and documents. I think I have been scammed. I will be calling this Jeff Logan to tell him a piece of my mind and to STOP harrassing me.

I am getting the same caller, can't understand a word he is saying. Told me he was gonna get in touch with my supervisor, I would be fired immediatley. I told him if there was a warrant for my arrest, it would first not be a phone call, secondly it would be forwarded to the town I live in, they would serve me. He called my cell at 7:30 this morning. I told him he is asking for a law suit, should not be calling before 8 am . I have no idea what he is calling about, says he is with AFS-Legal Dept. He is nothing but a bottom feeder, trying to use scare tatics on people. Well he messed with the wrong person, I am going to file a complaint.

I also received calls from this person. He used the name Justin Wilson and Mathew, he sound like Indian and spoke real bad English. He told me that is an Officer from the federal crime investigator who had charges to press against me unless I pay $26,000.00 if I go to court but if i want to resolve it out of court i just pay $5,000.00. In the first call he was trying to get my ss# and others information about me but I didn't give him any. In the second call he already got all my information, this scared me a lot and ran to take all my money out of the bank because he threated me, telling me that will take all my money from the bank plus my car and all my property if I don't give him the information he needs, which was my bank account.

We received a call from this number for one of our employees.  The caller ("Adam Stewart") sounded Indian, spoke poor English, and gave us a c*** and bull story about representing the 'Federal Crime Investigators' who had charges to press against the employee unless he gave them the $$ which would make the charges go away.  After several minutes of strong arming and lying, we hung up on him.  

I guess that global outsourcing has matured to the point where we are now outsourcing our petty criminals too.

threatened that I owed a loan company I'd already paid off. Told me I'd be taken to court and have topay 2500....false allegations..also, thick accent, called themselves federal investigators and said silly things like "no worries", and have your lawyer in court with you, etc...

Funniest thing my wife received a call from these guys also. I did call the 786-866-9155 and called the out letting them know i have tracer software that i routed their phone number through and forwarded their information on to the fbi and they actually requested that I stop calling them.

Per EC's post http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-909-6789

It's a scam, and all their threats are false and illegal.  The bottom line is, these are criminals trying to steal your money.

Here are a few news reports and government advisories warning consumers about this scam:

ABC News:  http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5621205&page=1
West Virginia Attorney General:  http://www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam.cfm
WTAE TV4, Pittsburgh:  http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/call4action/17285785/detail.html
Florida Commissioner of Consumer Services:  http://www.800helpfla.com/newsletter/2008/092008.html

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. 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, US Federal Bank, Sonic Bank, Hopkins Law Office, Christian Nicholas & Associates, CashNet, Financial Crime Prevention, National Crimes Division, United Legal Processing, Morgan Associates, United Pay Services, National Processing, White Collar Crime Unit, David Morgan & Assoicates 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.

These scammers 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 gobbylgook phrases like "We are downloading warrants against you" or "We are filing an affidavit against you."  Other trademark phrases include threatening the consumer with ridiculous phrases such as "If you don't pay then only God can help you" or "If you don't call me back then I can only wish you good luck."

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.)

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/1-904-425-9141
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-336-553-3965
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-909-6789
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/1-310-909-8245
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

I'm receiving threatening and annoying phone calls from "Off. Ron Collins" from the "Financial Crimes Unit". He calls my work phone and pages my work pager repeatedly throughout the day. He calls wanting to read an "affidavit", but when I insist I don't know what he is talking about, he continues to attempt reading the "charges" and says I'm being sued for several different federal and/or financial crimes. I can barely understand his english, so he put his "supervisor" on the phone, but it sounds like the same person. When I tell him I'm at work and not to call me, he calls me right back or pages me again.

Today, he left a message which I saved; He was threatening to humilate me at my workplace and around my place of residence.  I alarmed my husband and now my husband is leaving threatening calls to him after he googled the phone number and found out THIS IS A SCAM. I don't know who he is or who he is working with, but he's very demanding.

I still don't know the point of his phone calls or how he got my information. He only says the last 4 digits of my SS# and reads me my e-mail address. I figured if this was legit, they would be calling me at home and having a summons delivered via the U.S. Postal Office.

DO NOT GIVE HIM ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION AND DO NOT CALL HIM BACK WITH AN UNBLOCK NUMBER.

I got a call from this guy saying he was from the Federal Crime Investigation. He read me off what he said were my charges according to the affidavit, money laundering, fraud of some sort and something else relating to US Bank. His accent was so strong that I was unable to understand what he was saying.  He told me to have someone with me so that I can be bailed out of jail. He was extremely rude. He said but I did a check on your social and I see that you have never had any problems with the law because we did a criminal background check on you so we are willing to work something out. To his surprise I have had problems with the law and even went to prison.  The good news is that I had heard of collection agencies sometimes threatening people with jail time so I figured that this was a collection agency and when I asked he didn't even respond to the question. I don't know how he had so much of my information down to my social security number.  The end of the call was that he said I would find out who they were within 48 hours.

i got 3 calls from him yesterday as well. they're a scam and they try to use scare tactics to defraud you of money. when i told him that i've called my attorney and the police to verify their validity, he got mad and demanded that i speak to his supervisor. to which i said, "no there's no need. I'm hanging up with you now because I'm in the middle of filing a complaint against you with the Federal Trade Commission and the Better Business Bureau" at which point he hung up. if you get a call from these people, be sure to report them to the FTC & the BBB. they're operating in another country, Bangladesh i want to say.

I RCVD A CALL FROM THE SAME PERSON BEFORE CALL FROM NEW YORK STATING HE WAS FROM THE FEDERAL INVESTIGATION UNIT AND I NOW HE WAS CALL FROM 786-866-9155 IN MIAMI, FL..... STATED AGAIN HE WAS FROM THE FEDERAL INVESTIGATION AND REQ A CALL BACK. THIS MAN HAD AND IRAN/INDIA ACCENT...PLS BE CAUTION....