What business has this number?

This caller stated a garbled name and stated he was calling from an attorney's office in San Rafeal, CA. He left a message stating it was in my best interest to return his call and not to ignore it. It didn't sound legit and I ignored it. The next call was more forceful with nasty overtones as he told me I would regret not returning his call and that if I knew what was good for me I would return his call asap. Again, his name was garbled and he left no information as to what company he represented, what the call pertained to, nor any case or reference number. Again, it felt like a scam and I ignored it. The message left yesterday was sinister. I was told that the sheriff would show up at my door and arrest me. That I was committing a crime and my personal property would be seized. That again I would regret it and it would not be good for me or my family not to return his call. All this said in a very threatening tone of voice. Again, he stated no company where he was calling from, what the call pertained to, no reference or account number just a disembodied voice threatening me and my family. Although, it still sounded like a scam, I called the number he left only to encounter a recording telling me to leave a message. I assure you that I left a rather lengthy detailed message outlining what my coarse of action would be if I ever received another call threatening my family again. I informed him that these calls were against the law and that I would do everything in my power to prosecute him and his company to the fullest extent of the law. That was this afternoon. So far no call from him.

Today ,I received a call phone 1-8008056828 and left message  Shirley Davis , she mention my last SS# and addrees home,she said referent a one Payday Loan also she mention the phone work. This persons calling from diferent phones numbers about the same SCAM. She said the Law offices is in Texas.  Caller Cyber Crime Law Office. Call Type debit collector. Uff Terrible SCAM.

Just returned a call 1-800-805-6828! Funny thing is...... they left a note at my job in which my GF who works with me called and told me about! The note was from a Shawn Casper. When i called the number i spoke with a Kathy Martin, whom did a pretty good job in trying to hide her accent..... said i was being taken to court for a my default on a payday loan.... in which i asked how much the loan was for and how much any penalties and or late fees were as a total! she said i owed $432, and late fees were $190 of owed amount! Now why would i take a loan for $242?? in the experience ive had with loan companies they usaully do set increments like $200, $300, $400 and so on! Plus i know i hadnt had a loan for $242! Told her off and hopped on here lol! BTW she said she was in texas... doubt it tho! Word for the wise... just keep asking questions and they will tell on themselves!

I just got the same call - the guy was coughing like crazy.  Do they really think we're that stupid!!! Told me they were a law firm and it wasn't a joking matter. His name was Sean Casper. People will try anything to scam others out of their hard earned money!

Got this call this morning when I called back I was told that I was a mental case and that I needed to get a life and called stupid.  I then decided to really just lose it on him.  The same scam was calling me from a different number a couple of weeks ago trying to tell me that I owed them 40,000 for a payday loan....One heck of a payday loan was my comment.  They told me that this is not a joking matter and they they were going to come to my home and drag me to the local courthouse.  I reported them and I am reporting this one to.  Told me they were a law firm today only to find out everyone is having a problem with this type of stuff.

One leg of this scam has been shut down:

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

Got a call from same #. stated i was being sued onlne????
the girls name was shirley, broken english, noisy call center background.
she thought she was intimidating bcuz she knew my name address and workplace, i actually called to have some fun, (I'm bored) and was directed to an unnamed new mailbox

I got a call from 1-855-569-5936 scam i am sure india speaking person but told me to call 1-800-805-6828...no answer, then that number called me but i am not answering it...i have had scam calls like this before