get his  address an go pay him a personal visit like i did with a debt company they NEVER messed with me after that the key is to intimidate them with info like who they are there family and where they live for starters and tell them you know where there kids goto school too just fyi Intimidation goes along way make them think your  crazy person and they will leave you alone you  can research them by name county state and find them then you can call there personal home phone harrassing them just like they do you only do it 2am in morning time tell them did you know you and me are the only ones up at this time of  night just make them soooo happy they will get the message if you have address where they are pull it up on google earth and you can look at the color of there home and say nice 2 story home :-) theywill go Nuts not sure if your outside there home lol. remember Intimidation goes along way. so start practicing and they will leave you alone.

I received the same call from Michael Sinclair telling me that he was with the FBI and that I was going to lose my job and going to jail for not paying back cash advance loans. What a crock of mess. Don't listen to these people. They are liars and need to be stopped.

I fell for it and paid them $400+...I am an idiot!

Michael Sinclair called me from 8143341012 and I got scammed out of $400!

I was getting call for a long time and then I treathened them. They stopped for about a year now theya re starting again.

HAHAHAHAH these peploe this is the second number they called me from not only that tey have figured out how to hack 991 system so if you get a  911 call on your cell saying there from whatever county your in but they cant tell you the state haha saying i have a warrent but will go away if i pay theses pplHAHAHAH if happens mess with them they called me 911 saying it was an oane county police very strong indian accent and im in FL so i said orange county what named 5 diff states none of wwhich where FL i got the stupid idiot to say he was in orange county KANSAS BAHAHAHAHAHAH i told him good luck finding me there!!!!

I called them out as being scammers, told them I reported them to the US Government, and I also told them that American troops were on their way to bust them. I also told them to %$&@ - off. When I call back now the number has been disconnected.

This # keeps calling.  From what I understand it is a scam.  I read alot of reports on this number and it is from a call center in India?   Trying to get money from me.  How they got my info I don't know.  This really needs to stop.  This is fraud!!!!

These people keep calling me and I have no idea who this is. How can I make them stop? They have called for that last 3 days the first day 11 times right in a row.

called 11 times?  who are these people?

I received a call from this man today (4-3-12) on my cell claiming that I had an out standing loan from a Cash Advance company that I applied for on line. all he could give me was my cell number and a fictious email adddress (that wasn't mine). according to him he was not allowed to provide any additional information. He claim to be a representative of Mckensie Law & Associates, out of Pennsylvania.  (not sure if i'm spelling the Law firms name correctly.  This is the third call that I have received from these people ( i must admit the first time I did send in the payment using a Pre-Paid Card, because he mention Jail). After telling my step-mom and a little investigative work we see that this is a SCAM......Please be aware that  if someone is calling to collect a DEBT if  they are legal they should provide you  with more information  (social security number, addresses, etc) He gave me the name of  a Victoria E. Estep out of Waldorf, Maryalnd to Western Union the money to, since I refuse to send it to him with the Pre-Paid card.    Please can someone tell me how this person is getting my cell number and who are these people....(there is no telling how many other people they have gotten money from.......

Received 3 calls from this number within 5 minutes.  I do not answer these types of phone numbers.  A message is never left.

Got a call today from a John Williams(very heavy indian accent) saying the samething. Im very tired of this! They should be in jail. Thanks everyone for the heads up.

fell for this message 3 years ago, sent them 500.00  kept  calling me my family, with threats, about every 2 months, now have had 3 phone calls today within 1 hour. talked to state police last year, they said this is how talliban gets money.  Atttorney General couldn't do anything because nothing in writing

Don't feel sorry for these people. They are crooks, scam artists, thievesAnd their profit probably goes to monet laundering or drugs.. Feel sorry? they should be put in jail. No one should sucumb to these people. There are laws that have to be adherred to. No one can take you to jail for a debt!!!!!!

do what I do when I have time to waste. Call them back and just bother them. Let them know you have told your employer, police FBI and secret service who are in charge of the USA currency.

eventually they will get the point and stop calling. I love cursing them out when they call

i have been getting these call since monday.  They told me I was going to jail and I would lose everything.  It is not right for them to do something like that.  IT IS AGAINST THE LAW TO THREATEN SOMEONE OF JAIL.

i got a call from this number today it had been a year since their last call. I told him today that I had already contacted the FBI and reported him as a scam. He told me that he was not collecting any money just needed to have the name of my lawyer to send documents to me. I told him I dont not have any documents and that he needs to be sending any information to me at my address that he should have since he knows so much about me. He said that they had been sending it but it must have went to my email spam account. I told him that legal documents could not be sent via email must be by direct mail or certified mail. He says that they have a team of 72 lawyers that are ready to proceed to collect and that they will be coming to my work. I dont think he even knows where I work., Why cant this stuff be stopped.

One leg of this extortion scam was shut down several weeks ago:

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

I just received a call today from Brian Snyder(mideastern accent) saying the same thing. This nut wanted me to call him back to give him my address so he could send me paperwork or for me to call my lawyer. I called my lawyer and he said to ignore these calls. Its a scam!! There should be something done
about these jerks calling people and harassing them. Im tired of these trying to steal money from honest hard working people. We should out where they live and do the same thing to them.

Received a voicemail on my phone from a Brian Snyder (mideastern guy) said he had some very important documents to send to me.  Said that he has left me several messages.  Said I needed to call him back that they had legal actions against me and they would come to my to my office and arrest me if I didn't call them back.  That all they could do is wish me good luck.  My attorney told me not to answer or return any of their calls that it was a scam.  If you owe money you would receive a call from the business and also something in writing.

mideastern guy tooked me i was going to jail inportant that i call back something about payday loan i would like to pess charges and stop they call them every 6 weeks

who are theses people

They call me 3 times in a row then leave a message don't give them any private information

I received a message from a Brandon Smith, with a threat of legal action against me, also.  I have received calls like this before. There all the same, has to be scripted and even though they have very thick Indian accents they all seem to have very generic sounding American names.

Just got a call from a Brandon Smith and the same message as everyone else - lawsuit, arrest, blah, blah, blah...  So tired of these bast****s calling me!!

I have 11 missed calls from Michael Sinclair telling me the same bull about a lawsuit against my name and I was going to jail on Monday. How do I stop these calls?

Just talked to them, they called me saying there was a problem with a payday loan i took out and now i would be arrested and lose my job and all this crap. They told me everything that you guys have mentioned above! Just glad I am not the only one. I hung up on him cause I knew something wasnt right. Hope this gets stopped and if it was so important and I hung up on them why didnt they call back! What a joke!

I got the same call.  Very rude man.  Called him back for the fun of it and rang 4 times then went dead.  Reported him to the goverment do not call list.

The first call I answerted was from a man named Micheal who told me that I am going to jail on Monday, because I have a record against my name, what ever that means. he hung up on me, so I called backed and they hung up on me again. WHAT EVER.

I feel sorry for others that have to scam people, go get a job and leave us that have lives alone.

Called me over 20 times today