814-334-1008
PA, US
 | Brittany 2012-12-08 04:13:54 Unknown |
Got a call from a different number but with the exact same issue. Indian guy, threatened legal consequences if my attorney or girlfriend didn't call back. She tried to call back and a recording asked for her number, then hung up.
| Gunnar 2012-11-03 23:05:45 Unknown |
It never fails to amaze me. How could any human being be so ignorant as to come onto this site and try to advertise a bogus loan company? What do you use to think with you fool? Do you actually have a brain?
Does anyone here know if any rational thought can be performed by an individual who obviously has little more than a brain-stem? I mean, we all are well aware of the average I.Q.s' of these scammers. But occasionally one shows up that simply defies explanation. How does this cretin even perform the simplest functions? He attempts to communicate and obviously thinks he's bright enough to hood-wink people, and yet it's as plain as day that he doesn't have the intelligence that God gave a fence post. How can this be?
Does anyone here know if any rational thought can be performed by an individual who obviously has little more than a brain-stem? I mean, we all are well aware of the average I.Q.s' of these scammers. But occasionally one shows up that simply defies explanation. How does this cretin even perform the simplest functions? He attempts to communicate and obviously thinks he's bright enough to hood-wink people, and yet it's as plain as day that he doesn't have the intelligence that God gave a fence post. How can this be?
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| Clayright 2012-08-30 00:04:25 Unknown |
REPEAT MESSAGE FOR CORRECTION
I am receiving calls with a tape making a reference to a "Kelly Smith" asking for an unknown John Johnson. No one by this name lives in this home. I document every call from this company and I have a total of 18 calls, time and date and etc. to my number. They call and I press the number (1) as indicated by the message system to speak to a representative. In past occasions, the representative would state "I will have your number removed". Today, the representative answered the call "hello". She had an American accent. However, before I could inquire why their calls are continuing to harass me for an unknown person who does not live here, she immediately hung up. This is CRAZY!
P.S. John Johnson if your out there; somewhere, anywhere, call them, please. Thanks!
I am receiving calls with a tape making a reference to a "Kelly Smith" asking for an unknown John Johnson. No one by this name lives in this home. I document every call from this company and I have a total of 18 calls, time and date and etc. to my number. They call and I press the number (1) as indicated by the message system to speak to a representative. In past occasions, the representative would state "I will have your number removed". Today, the representative answered the call "hello". She had an American accent. However, before I could inquire why their calls are continuing to harass me for an unknown person who does not live here, she immediately hung up. This is CRAZY!
P.S. John Johnson if your out there; somewhere, anywhere, call them, please. Thanks!
| Clayright 2012-08-29 23:42:50 Unknown |
I am receiving calls with a tape making a reference to a "Kelly Smith" asking for an unknown John Johnson. No one by this name lives in this home. I document their every call and I have place harassing calls since I began counting at least 18x. They call and I press the number (1) as indicated to speak to a representative. In the past, a representative would say, I will have your number removed. Today, the representative answered the call. before I could inquire why the calls are continuing harassing me for this unknown person who does not live here, she immediately hung up. This is CRAZY!
| Alfalfa 2012-07-20 15:24:25 Unknown |
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
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
| Tasha 2012-07-20 15:23:24 Debt Collector |
I just received a call from the Mackenzie Law Firm in which they said I owed $857 for a payday loan that I have never taken out. They had the last 4 digits of my SSN, my email address, my mother's name and the last digits of my checking account number. Their number has changed to 567-248-4831 now. When I asked where they were located he said Toledo, Ohio so I did a google search when I couldn't find anything I said there is no office there and he gave me another city and state and then I came across this site. I hope we can get this stopped I don't need the harrasing phone calls.
| Eric S. Anderson 2012-05-10 17:28:26 Debt Collector |
Greetings,
I (and my elderly parents) are getting calls from a foreign guy going by the name of Michael Smith. He leaves treatening voicemails about my needing an attorney if I don't give him money. I have found many many people who are also called from this number with various threats and wanting us to send money. I have been reading a blog about it here, http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-814-334-1008, that many people are being harrassed by these people and that they have hacked other sites to get our personal information. Can someone tell me what government office(s) should be contacted to report this stuff.
Thank you,
Eric S. Anderson
I (and my elderly parents) are getting calls from a foreign guy going by the name of Michael Smith. He leaves treatening voicemails about my needing an attorney if I don't give him money. I have found many many people who are also called from this number with various threats and wanting us to send money. I have been reading a blog about it here, http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-814-334-1008, that many people are being harrassed by these people and that they have hacked other sites to get our personal information. Can someone tell me what government office(s) should be contacted to report this stuff.
Thank you,
Eric S. Anderson
| Georgia 2012-05-10 01:51:19 Unknown |
I google loans once and boy was that a mistake. I believe this number got my info from that and has been claiming to be a law firm in California and is going to lock up my husband. These calls are threatening. These people are criminals and need to be stopped!!!
| california 2012-05-09 19:59:54 Unknown |
I received a call from 814-334-1008 saying they are from mckenzie law saying i owed them money from an online loan. i told them to send the information via mail when i wouldnt give in they hung up i then looked them up and found out that they are running a scam
| Tiffanie 2012-05-04 22:49:34 Debt Collector |
I keep getting the same calls. I just ask them if they'd like me attourneys info and they hang up on me. Somtimes I call them back and mess with them as much as they mess with me!
| Rusty 2012-05-03 15:35:49 Debt Collector |
The man who initiates this call, is rude, threatening and telling me if I don't call him back in 30 seconds I will just have to suffer the consequences. He has a very strong Indian or West Indian accent which I could bearly understand. These calls come in minutes apart, and since I don't know the number I ignore it but today they left a message on my Verizon voicemail. Nine tenths of his message I could not really understand, but what I did hear was threatening. There has to be someone or company or authority out there that can catch these jerks and stop them from harrassing people. I myself am a 68 year old senior citizen, mind my own business, served my country in Vietnam and the USAF for 10-1/2 years and shouldn't have to spend my twilight years listening to this crap
| Q 2012-05-02 22:37:18 Unknown |
McKenzie Law Firm claims to be at (phone stated) address of:
2400 Eastern Street
Pittsburgh, PA 17703
Made Up Law Firm With A Made Up Name & Address
May as well be Norweigian
100% Scam
2400 Eastern Street
Pittsburgh, PA 17703
Made Up Law Firm With A Made Up Name & Address
May as well be Norweigian
100% Scam
| Christen W. 2012-05-02 00:17:19 Debt Collector |
I keep getting calls from 814-334-1008 i only ever answered the phone once it was a strange foreign lady i had no idea what she was saying but she was clearly saying info that was not me i told her to never call again since then they call non stop! ugh i never answer the phone anymore but i keep getting voice mails i have no idea who this number is for but they need to be stop!
| Debbie C 2012-04-19 22:26:29 Unknown |
I just recd a number of calls from this number stating that I owed money to this Company ..
Little do they know...I work for a Bank and now My own acct has been compromized . .
I have been out on long term disability and really tryed to keep up w/my acct.
I will report them but We all need to stick together on this cause I know enough not tp get involved with theses quick loan companies...
I googled this number and it belongs to someone else . .
Little do they know...I work for a Bank and now My own acct has been compromized . .
I have been out on long term disability and really tryed to keep up w/my acct.
I will report them but We all need to stick together on this cause I know enough not tp get involved with theses quick loan companies...
I googled this number and it belongs to someone else . .
| kay 2012-04-19 00:29:51 Unknown |
If u are receiving harassing calls from mckenzie law firm in pennsylvania, pls. Report them to homeland security at 2022828000. They are harassing me at my place of employment and on my cell phone. It is embarrassing and scary. Dont be bullied by this company.
| kay 2012-04-18 23:52:46 Unknown |
Ive received several calls at work and on my cell from a woman and a man from mckenzie law firm in pennsylvania. How can I stop them from calling my employer.
| tireed 2012-04-18 23:26:25 Unknown |
same scame different day..................why do they waste our time
| SUZANNE 2012-04-17 17:46:55 Debt Collector |
I have received very threatening calls from this same number. Mike Thomas told me i owed/stole $5000.00, dollars and i better be in Jacksonville Fl on the 13th of the month w/$13,000.00. otherwise i would be locked up. They relentless and illeagally harassed me at my job. Finally i googled the number and the next time he called i let him know i had researched his number and that i would report him to the FBI, ATTORNEY GENERAL, Better Business Bureau. I have not heard from him in over 4 weeks. However, i think the calls have started again yesterday i received a call from some attorney office number was 814 334 1008. These people are terrible they have no manners very rude. I could go on but need to get back to work. Cannot understand them very broken english.
Kind regards, Suzanne
Kind regards, Suzanne
| Joy M. 2012-04-13 21:51:47 Unknown |
Adam Jones decided to call my mother (who is 71) to tell her that she owes $650.00 and that legal action would be taken by Monday if she did not pay up. When I asked his name, he hung up on me three times, then I finally got a name from Indian woman who transferred me to Supervisor Adam Jones who I harrassed and called 22 times. I called him, threatened him and showed him what it was like to be on the other end of being harrassed. They eventually started hanging up on me...if anyone cares to know, their number has changed.814.347.2009. They messed with the wrong one on Friday the 13th. My house is at peace again
| pissed off 2012-04-13 15:21:09 Unknown |
These people keep calling wanting to know if I have an attorney asked him not to call my cell number
| Ruben 2012-04-04 16:17:12 Debt Collector |
Just got a call a few min. ago from a mister Adam Smith from McKenzie Law Assoc. I was straight laughing, I said "Smith really" LOL. So he started reading from a script and asked me if I knew I had a lawsuit against my name and social security number, I told him I did LOL then I asked him if he wanted a thousand dollars to make it go away, he paused then said I didn't ask you for money, I told him sure buddy, told me to hold and he was going to transfer me to his supervisor, I said ok by this time I Iet my buddy in on whats going on, so the supervisor is on the phone before he spoke a word I told him I have my lawyer here with me witch was my buddy "mine you this is happening at my job", I said you want to talk to my lawyer he said no I wanna talk to you, I said hold on I will give him the phone, then he hung up, but still what has me concern is having my personal information bank, SSN, DOB, DL, and we still cant stop this jokers COME ON...
| Dan 2012-04-03 00:22:49 Unknown |
Just got off the phone with them as they call weekly. He told me he was going to make my life a living hell.
| Dieasha Moore 2012-03-30 15:30:15 Debt Collector |
I recieved a call from McKenzie Law & Associates ( Fernando Torrez) stating that i owed money on a payday loan back in september. Which is untrue being as tho I was layed off in september. The informed that he could prolong the law-suit if i agreed to make the payment. when I asked him how do I go about taking care of this, he then act as if he was transferring me which he didnt it was the same guy as before. He told me to get a perpaid debit card and write a letter stating that I not dispute the transaction. Then he wanted me to fax the letter and the card info to 909-385-6828.
I googled McKenzie law & associates and he came up as a firm in GA so I called the number the lady that answered was so helpful, she has already been aware of the scam and informed me that. she gets a least a dozen of calls a day about this scam. these people are calling from the middleEAst and are having there calls forwarded so that they can have a american number 814 area code is altoona Pa and they are saying they are from california. I legitment Mckenzie law firm gave me a number to contact and to report this too: 1-877-382-4357 The REF # is 33867144 she has already filed a complaint because they are using her law firm name which is a small law firm based out of GA her & her husband owns this company.
I googled McKenzie law & associates and he came up as a firm in GA so I called the number the lady that answered was so helpful, she has already been aware of the scam and informed me that. she gets a least a dozen of calls a day about this scam. these people are calling from the middleEAst and are having there calls forwarded so that they can have a american number 814 area code is altoona Pa and they are saying they are from california. I legitment Mckenzie law firm gave me a number to contact and to report this too: 1-877-382-4357 The REF # is 33867144 she has already filed a complaint because they are using her law firm name which is a small law firm based out of GA her & her husband owns this company.
| Marcia Minott 2012-03-23 18:57:00 Unknown |
Got a call from Jacob Brown from 8143341008 saying his law firm McKenzie Law firm (an arabic speaking person) saying I am being sued for loan and I am to send him a letter to confirm how I will repay the loan. I am to send my credit card # expiration date and cv #.
| sherri 2012-03-23 15:56:52 Unknown |
We have been getting harassing calls from a payday loan and now a para Jennifer Williams from Mckenzie law.they are calling my husbands boss now .how can we stop this harassment?
| robert 2012-03-22 23:43:11 Debt Collector |
tell me that thier from,lawyer firm say debt collector
| helena 2012-03-22 16:26:49 Unknown |
i got this same call and message, saying it was time sensitive, i needed to call back or have my attorney call and the best of good luck if i didn't! really! this woman could barely speak english! her name was rosa mulow..... well thats what it sounded like....... anyway the best of luck to her too!
| samtham 2012-03-22 14:45:09 Unknown |
thay did the some to me i hate it the frist one i was scred and this been going on for 3 mos now this poelpe are a** hole thay need to leaven me alone
| Janet - Texas 2012-03-21 18:58:23 Unknown |
If you have applied for a payday loan, cash advance or any of the following, they maybe getting the information from there. I noticed I did not have this problem until I did a payday loan on line and every since I have been bombarded with these type calls, and more. Just a guess, but seems to link in some amnner.
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