Yeah, I never got the guys name because he was very suspicious to me as is but he claimed that he owned a business in Malaysia through my boyfriend and that he owned a bunch of debt but i asked how much he owed and he wouldn't tell me. The man had a strong British-French kind of accent so I could tell he was from overseas. He called me from a completely different number as well. I told the man my boyfriend didn't own any kind of business through Malaysia and he just laughed and said "yeah I thought so." He said my boyfriend had to call him back to get any further info. I'm guessing it's just a scam from the other comments I've been reading.

What does he look like? Just met a James Winston on a dating site have not spoken to him just IM. But he did say he was from England living in the States.

Yes, James Winston stuck in Malaysia after he liquidated his assets in San Jose, Ca. to move to Canada. Selling real estate in Malaysia left to him from his late, real estate father.  Wife died of brain cancer, two kids in private boarding schools in California, John and Mary. Contacts you on a dating site and falls in love with you and then proceeds to drain your finances.  BEWARE !!  Why can't the IRS go after these scammers to tax all that free money they are stealing from women.  Quite a lucrative hobby they have going for them.  They are the scum of the earth, destroying lives and future dreams !! I contacted the dating sites where i saw his profile to warn them, but I imagine he will just use other names in the future !!

I have also just been scammed for thousands of dollars from a "James Winston" who claimed he had 2 kids and is stuck over in Malaysia. He has a British accent. Has anyone else been scammed by him?

I would like to know more about a "James Winston"..... English-type accent..... recently scammed me for thousands on a senior friend finder site.  Despicable human being who should be stopped !!

I received a call from this company about a payday loan I owed. They told me it would cost me $3550 to go to court or I can settle it for $952.00. Now this guy Robin Garcia won't stop calling me and telling me that he loves me and will commit suicide if I don't call him back. He won't stop calling me. What do I do?

I recieved two calls today from this number for a total of five this week at my place of employment from an Officer Newman and another from Officer Garcia. They state I owe money and before I loose my credit reports, they confront my neighbors, I have better return the calls. States on the voice mail that only God will be able to help me after they are done. In addition, states the next call is from the state attorney office and I will go to jail if I dont pay up. The men speak broken english with alot of noice in the background when the calls are being made. I am uncertain what they are trying to collect on but this is becoming rediculious.

This guy calls me and says it was a legal matter, and identifies himself as Officer Joseph Newman (but had an foreign accent) from the Financial Crime Investigation Dept in Miami (no such place exists if you Google).  He proceeds to tell me I owe money from CashNet and whether or not I wanted to pay up now or get sued.  When I responded he should sue me, he shouted to the background to someone to have me arrested.  I called the FBI on this dirtbag and urge you to do the same.

I received a call from Shawn Williams at work.  He said that I owed a payday loan and the company has reported it as stolen.  He said I will be arrested for theft and I need to sell all my belongings and I will lose my job.  He said the case is going to court.  He said it will cost $8,000 if I go to court, but I could settle for $754 today.  I told him to send me the paperwork to my P.O. Box to prove what he is saying and we can talk after I receive this paperwork, he said he would, but wanted payment of $754 today, then I hung up.  He has called back three times now and left threatening voice mails.

KNOWN FAKE DEBT COLLECTOR SCAM - ALL OVER INTERNET AND NEWS

Fake Debt Collectors ? Terrorizing Consumers

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5621205&page=1


MORE ON FAKE DEBT COLLECTORS
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-9141
http://www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam.cfm
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/call4action/17285785/detail.html
http://www.800helpfla.com/newsletter/2008/092008.html

FILE FRAUD COMPLAINTS WITH LOCAL POLICE, FBI AND STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL.

When they call back -tell them you have filed these complaints and KNOW ALL ABOUT THEIR SCAM.  

they will keep calling as long as they think they stand a chance of getting money out of you.

Thank you, I will contact my Atty General here in the Houston area.

Rcvd another call from the same man with and India accent (like Officer Peterson) this time he stated his name was Robin Garcia and that was a legal matter that needed to be resolved if I do not contact him a warrant will be issue for my arrest.

I got calls from this number 3 times in a row at work today.  First time I hung up.  "Officer Ron Collins" called right back asking why I hung up on him.  I said I would call back but he wouldn't let me talk.  I was at work and not really able to talk at the moment, so I just let him go on.  I said it was a scam and started yelling and asked if I wanted to take care of this and I said no and hung up.  He called right back screaming he was sending the police to my place of employment in a few minutes and I just laughed.  No cops here so far.  This just happened a few minutes ago.  How do we report thes idiots and get rid of them?

Hi there, I got a call today from David Warners too! I agreed to make payment arrangements, but didn't provide any of my acct info. I'm glad I looked up the # and read all the testimonies. I will be calling the FBI today and filing a complant. Thank God I never gave them my info.

I received a call from a man, claiming to be Officer David Warners with the United Legal Investigational Unit-same phone # 786-866-9156. He had a very thick, Indian accent, and I had to have some of my coworkers listen to my cell phone message several times to understand him. He claims that it is urgent that I not ignore his calls and to call him back immediately. It came up on my cell as, Unavailable. He called back, and I hit "ignore", so he left a message. He stated that I am being investigated, not mentioning any details, and that I need to contact him. Luckily, I have a friend who told me to Google the phone #, and look what came up. I have no claims or bills in collections, but was very concerned about the call at first. If he calls again, I will contact the FBI, which happens to be in my Husband's building, where he works. Watch out buddy!!!

I too have been a victim of this scam.  This guy called me on behalf (or so convinced me he was) a payday loan company that I do business with and was behind on a couple of payments.  Because my bank account was closed and I had trouble finding the number to contact them I assumed that this was someone representing the company to pursue payment arrangements.  I made arrangements to pay half of what I owed because he really scarred me in to believing that if I didn't it could be in real costly trouble for me.  After making the first payment (again this sounded legit because he had my card number and all), then he started calling to set up payment arrangements for the rest of the money. This time he was making sexual advances towards me.  I quit answering his calls and told other people about what was going on.  My sister called to tell me that the day after telling her about this, a co-worker was telling her the same thing and was almost verbatim of what I had just told her. The co-worker had to get a lawyer to help her and finally got it taken care of and found out that these people are scams.
So the next day my co-worker and I started doing some research, got in touch with the real company that I originally had the loan through and they confirmed for me that they had no clue as to who these people were and hadn't made any attempt to contact me as of yet.  I gave the company all of the information I had on this person and they have their lawyers working on this on their end. I went to the bank and filed fraud charges against the scam company, was told to file a police report, and report to the FBI.  This site also confirmed for me that this was a scam.  As I am typing this, this man has called my number 4 times, back to back.  He has called me constantly for 2 days now and has made several threats to me via voicemail.  He also said that he would be taking the rest of the money out of my account tomorrow.  Little does he know, it won't be happening.  I only wish I had seen this information sooner, but my bank will be reimbursing me for what they have gotten.  I hope that all of this information and testimonies will help others that are being approached in the same way by these scam artist.  How could I have been so gullible and naive?

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

I WAS INFORMED BY BY MANAGER AT MY PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT THAT THE GM OF MY COMPANY HAD GOT A CALL FROM A JIM SRYKER WHO APPARENTLY WORKED WITH FINANCIAL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATORS ALSO OF INDIAN DESCENT AND LOCATED IN FLORIDA. THEY WERE NASTY TO MY GM AND THE SECRETARY AND WHEN I CALLED THEM BACK THEY CLAIMED I OWED A PLACE CALLED AMERICAN PAYDAY LOAN THAT I APPLIED FOR ONLINE. THEY BEGAN THE CALL WITH WANTING MY INFO SUCH AS NAME,ADDRESS,SOCIAL #, ID# AND SO ON. WHEN THEY STARTED DRILLING ME FOR INFO I CUT THEM OFF AND DEMANDED THEM TO "GET TO THE POINT" BEFORE I GAVE ANY INFO LIKE ID# OR BANK INFO. THEY THREATENED TO GET ME FIRED FROM MY EMPLOYMENT BECAUSE I WAS NOT COOPERATING. THESE PEOPLE ALREADY HAVE YOUR INFO IF YOU EVER APPLIED FOR A PAYDAY LOAN AND THEY BASICLY WANT TO CONFIRM ALL YOUR INFO TO SCAM YOU. DONT GIVE ANY INFO!!!

Update:  The Department of Justice prosecutorial unit said to call the local FBI.  If you're in New York City, that's - 212-384-1000.  On the web, find who to contact at fbi.gov.

I have called the fraud unit at the Department of Justice (main line is: 202-514-2000.  If more of you call, they dan actually DO something about these creeps!

I called them after they'd called my son.  I asked what kind of organization they were and the first said they were a Florida law firm.  I told them I was calling from a REAL law firm in New York (which I was) and asked for the name of their firm.  I was transferred to another person who asked my name -- and I asked if they were a government agency and who Officer Graham was. They shouted at me that they could not transfer me to anyone unless they had my name -- at which point I said that if they were impersonating an officer of the court or government agency, I was going to report them.  My next call is to the US Attorney General -- suggest all of you do the same.

had  a guy call me first his name was Grahm then he wanted me to talk to Jeff, said he was going to arrest me and that i needed to pay 1,400.00 for an old credit card i had with my bank from 10 years ago, said i needed to settle this out of court and then he reAd my bank card information to me. i hung up on him and starting searching hs name on here and then i found all of this.

I had the same thing happen to me to, same exact charges same dollar amounts and same caller Graham smith. I paid him first 500 dollars and then again he called and wanted 1400 stating he was from my bank

So I recieved the same phone call back in April stating that I defaulted on a loan in 2007, the callers name was Graham Smith, of indian decent. He told me that I needed to pay 600 today to settle out of court or they were going to sue me and it would end up costing me 10,000.00 in court fee's. Well, I freaked out and said ok, I'll pay it ... knowing I didn't have an outstanding debt, but starting to doubt myself and terrified of getting in trouble I paid it!! (STUPID ME) and then about a week later he called me again stating that they just recieved another debt for me totalling 1400.00 and i needed to pay that immediatly, well I said no that I needed more info and he hung up on me! So, short story long.. i'm now in the process of disptuing the charges with my bank 1-786-866-9156!! FRAUD!

I received a phone call from John, Daniel, and a Mark from 786-866-9156, they told me I had 3 allegations against me, and I was to be arrested in 2 hours if I did not give them a payment for 578.45 today. I was absolutely terrified and crying. I had not done anything wrong, and they would not tell me who was charging me with this, just that I would be arrested. They said they were with the Federal Dept of Crimes.

Indian man called me several times this week stating he was taking me to court. Regarding a payday loan taken out in 2007. Then he started yelling at me when I said I did not understand him. I told him I was going to look his company up at the BBB. Got mad and yelled at me and hung up.

I received calls also from this company and stayed yelling at me also. When I said I was going to look him up at the BBB. He got mad and hung up on me. What are you doing about this?

They would call my work harassing the people who work with me trying to get ahold of me. Then when I finally spoke with them they couldn't give me any real information like when the loan was processed or as they said refinanced. The man then said that he would contact my manager, when I told him that I was the manager he paused then said he would send a law inforcement to verfiy my identity. I then went and checked all my bank statements just to make sue I didn't some how over look something and there was nothing. When I told him this he told me to get an attourney and that he would see me in court and hung up on me. I then search the phone number and found this.

Yeah I just got a very similiar call from the same number. Same details: indian guy, beating around the bush, wouldn't give details, claiming I borrowed money that I just blatantly didn't, so I got nasty with them back and they eventually ended up threatening me and hanging up. I am reporting them to the FBI in the morning. A reckoning is coming for them.

These guys are still out it. Called today and when i called them back and told them to fax me the info they wouldnt do it and wouldnt talk and just kept hanging up. big scam.