The same thing happen to me in the past n they got me cause i did have a payday loan. Now they calling me again harrassing and back to back calls. When ask for proof he's unable to give that and his location. How can i stop the calls?

I enjoyed playing the same games with these scumbags, would make them so mad busting them out on their scam, I really enjoy pissing them off when you mention police, scam and India. Boy I would love to see the look on their faces when they get arrested because they will go down- I am investing my time and research into making that happen.

They have been doing same to me at my work, robo calling when you hang up on them, they go by different names and change their phone numbers constantly.I see this has been going on for years with them calling people jobs constantly & read that several people has been fired because of them, luckily I have an understanding job. Dont know why these scumbags have not been caught yet but - we need a lawsuit against these low lifes. I believe they read these posts about them too so let the games begin- you picked the wrong one to mess with DFF.

They are coward middle easterners who wants to be U.S citizens- sorry scumbags we dont want you, in fact your own country dont want you. They hate for you to mention the police because they know their game playing is about to come to an end, see if you can harrass people from your jail cell and yes this is to you scumbags because I know you do read these. We will get the last laugh, cant wait to get this lawsuit against you lowlife scumbags.

567-244-2633

I am willing to get on this lawsuit against these nuts, they will go down in due time.

They continue to change their numbers the last one I got is 567-244-2633

got 5 to 6 calls today at work from this guy claiming to be Robert Francis and his manager Marcus saying they were with DFF and I had a lawsuit against me for an unpaid advanced loan for $300.00 in 2010. Told them I would call them back after I got off from work but they kept calling and said they would continue calling until I tell them what I plan on doing about this loan.When I got home called them back and asked where they were located and was told California but I checked the number and it is an Ohio number and when I told them that I was calling police to report them harassing me at work Robert became irate and said "you shut up you old woman you bi***" and hung up. They also had my social and everything. The number I called them at was 567-244-2633.

This is a criminal extortion scam operating out of India. They are making the calls utilizing VOIP and the names of legitimate firms to make it appear the calls are originating from within the US. There is NO "company" or "debt" and you will NOT be arrested. They are harvesting and/or buying consumers' personal identifying information and you need to do whatever you can to protect yourself. This includes: Notifying the FTC: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/, placing fraud alerts with all three credit bureaus, notifying your bank and employer and letting these criminals know you are aware they are attempting to extort money for a non-existent debt and have alerted the authorities.

Read this investigative report ABC News did on this scam:

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 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.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/phantom-debt-co ... ory?id=16512428

They keep calling my job blocking all the line up. They cursed me and my employer out. He said has name is David Flower he is rude said i will go to jail. He want give me know information he just you need to pay us called me a theft . I had my lawyer is the with me he cursed her out and me.I just want the to stay calling me job.

They won't give a mailing address.

Collection company call DFF keeps calling for an ex-employee.  They call and tie up our phone lines and are rude to administrative staff.

I had the same thing going on From these Hindos! They even keep calling my wife on her work phone, Same thing if you do not do want they want they get nasty! The one that called today had all my info and said that their company in is massachusetts.1st it was Marcus Wilson ( yeah right!) you mean Sanjeev! anyway then tranfered me to his manager Mr Bill Anderson again (yeah right!) same threats 3 charges of fraud and I stole money from them LOL! They Said the only way to pay this debt is to send western union or money gram. i agreed and mr. bill siad he will call me at noon tomarrow to give me instructions where to send the money using money! I guess when they call back I am just going to have to start making fun of them agian like I have been at least twice a week for the last six months!, I usally do not answer the calls but today my wife got sick of them calling so i had no choice. Oh well back to making fun of them again sometimes it gets pretty funny how P'ed off they get!
Thanks

Same scam is happening at my work.  They are phishing for someone to fall for this and send a check.  Everyone here needs to realize you have the power because you have what they need - money.   Money they cannot access (even with all the info they have on you).  If they could access it, they wouldn't be calling you - they would be using it.   Stay in control and realize they are sitting in an overcrowded call center in overcrowded India - not Massachusetts, Boston City.  Let them know NOTHING more about you.  Let them know that you know that DFF supposedly stands for Defending Financial Fraud - this alerts them to the fact you have researched them and are aware of the scam (they have never stated this to me on the phone, only Legal Dept. for DFF).    If they hang in there with you, calmly let them know you know they are scammers and they are wasting their SKYPE time on you (again, showing knowledge of their operation will encourage them to move along).  They may continue to call you, but if you do not react to their statements and crude language, you take all the power of intimidation away from you.  Relax, enjoy messing with them if you can (ask if they like cheeseburgers - they worship cows) or be patient, they will stop.

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.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/phantom-debt-co ... 16512428&page=2

I was called over 70 times in one day at my place of employment, cursed my supervisors, police called, etc..., have been continually harassed, had to change my phone number and everything

There is a person named William Carter that is calling my place of employment continuosly!  I have asked him to stop this person that he is asking for does not work for us!  Please have him stop as this is tying up our phone lines....

Let's understand...these individuals are frauds. They are from the Middle East.  In other words India. They are as common as flees and ticks (I am at this point putting down fleas and tics because they are better than these people.) The only way to fight back. Fight fire with fire.  Give as good as you get. DFF I know you idiots read these statements, you have stated on conversations you hate Americans. Beware Americans do get angry. DFF take your Jimmy Chambers your Mark Chases and place them where the sun don't shine.

my call came from 617-531-9136, they said they were calling from DFF. They said they were sending me to court for a loan i hasn't paid back from the company payday loans. These people had a very thick accent. I spoke to the police and they said that that's fraud, that it was going all over, but no matter what never to give any information over the phone.

they are doing the same to me and I was told to file a complaint with the sherriffs dept in north carolina and the DA in north carolina.  I am trying to figure out what city they are out of.  they cannot threaten people like that at work.

Do you have a mailing address for this company?

For over a year now I have been receiving these exact same phone calls. Rude and down right threatening at times. Back in November of '10 I paid just over $300 to these people and didn't receive any calls for about 4 months and then it started up again. I tried talking to their manager, some lady but all she did is say the same thing those drons were saying, I owe money blah blah blah and I would go to jail. I gave them my lawyers number because i figured he could get to the bottom of this and he said they've never called him to this day. He said it's just a scam and to not give out any information and tell them to just sue me if It's legit, that was over 2 years ago and still nothing. It is bothersome but anytime I get a call from these people I ignore all unknown numbers because I've put a block on the other numbers, contacted my bank and haven't had any unwanted charges brought against my account. If they keep calling just do what my lawyer says, tell them your a cop and they should stop calling.

dO YOU ACTUALLY HAVE AN ADDRESS FOR THESE SLIME BALLS!! pLEASE SHARE for the rest of us who are struggling with these Jerks

i think that gays are scamer

For the past few days I been recieving this phone call atleast 3 - 4 times a day, I don't recognize the number so I didn't answer but it did left me a voicemail. Some heavy indian accent man who call himself _ Scott from Legal Dept of DFF (Detection Financial Fraud) says that I owe $$$ and what ticks me off/scare me was he knows my last four digit and I didnt realize till today I been getting this harrassing phone call at work. Oh my god I was sent to the office because my receptionist says this man been calling non stop looking for me and he even harrassed her saying if they dont speak to me, they will cut down the phone line of the company so I was being questioned by my HR do I know this person or is it some kind of debt collection but I had no idea that this been going on so they are reporting this to the police which Im hoping something could be handle. This is not cool at all Im really pissed about this when I read everybody else review.

These Indian people are threatening me and calling my job back to back. The number they call from is 508-683-0014- they said they are collectors from DFF in Massachusetts. They are asking me for money. I dont owe them anything.

the number is 508 683-0014-

These people are very razy. They harassed me at work and all me names. I called the police because they threatened me, but police said nothing they can do. We should all get a lawsuit on them. How do we get started.

02/10/2012 I have been receiving harrasing calls from 804-212-0433 at work, home and my cell phone. An individual with a very heavy Indian Accent calls and sometimes says his name is Jeff Thomas or Jimmy Johnson or some other american name and claims that he is from the "legal Dept of BFF". I am positive it is SCAM because when I started asking them questions they get very rude and indignet. they have also been calling people that  I put down as references for a payday loan that I applied for at one point.  They have threatened me by stating I will be arrested at work, and dragged away kicking and screaming and that I need to bring them money immediately. I have also reported each call to the Federal Trade Commission but nothing seems to be able to stop them from calling.

They just called our organization looking for one of our employees.  they gave the name Officer Brian Lewis, with a very heavy Asian or Indian accent.  Said his badge number was 2189 with DFF Legal Department.  Did give his number, if anyone wants to call back - 804-212-0433.