No message was left. Just annoying repetitive call attempts.

FORGET REPORTING THESE PEOPLE, JUST IGNORE THEM. THEY ARE OFFSHORE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES BUYING VOIP PHONE NUMBERS IN THE US AND USING A FALSE IP ADDRESS SO THIS MAKES IT ALL THE MORE DIFFICULT TO NAIL THEM DOWN. TRUTH BE TOLD THEY ARE NOT SUBJECT TO OUR LAWS AND BANK ON PEOPLE BEING SCARED OF THEM. JUST KNOW THAT ANY OF THE COMPANIES THAT YOU HAVE INCURRED DEBT NO MATTER THE LIKELYHOOD OF THEM ACTUALLY SUEING YOU OR HAVING YOU PROSECUTED THEY WILL NEVER AND HAVE NEVER GONE OFFSHORE TO HIRE FOREIGN PEOPLE TO GET THESE THINGS PAID OFF. ASKING FOR DOCUMENTATION AND BEING COOPERATIVE IS THE MARK OF SOMETHING REAL VERSUS THESE THUGS WHO TRY TO SCARE. EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE SOME OF YOUR PERSONAL INFO, JUST PROTECT YOUR BANK ACCOUNTS AND ONLINE PASSWORDS TO YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNTS AND SHOP ONLINE ONLY WITH A PREPAID CC OR A PAY PAL ACCOUNT.

got the same call. It's a scam.

I got the same call today!  Was really weird cuz it showed up as "000000000000" as the incoming call on my cell phone.

http://800notes.com/forum/ta-86217073a9c8dad/ ... 077595690349410
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http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0258-fake-debt-collectors
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http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/pubs/pressreleases/extortion_scam.htm
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Also read up on the laws and your rights:

http://800notes.com/arts/Jb8EW-eDhQA/harassin ... ou-need-to-know
http://www.ftc.gov/os/statutes/fdcpajump.shtm
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/askcfpb/search ...
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/pdf-0096-fair-credit-reporting-act.pdf
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0149-debt-collection
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Follow the steps in what you need to know. A legitimate debt collector agency should not have a problem with giving you a real business name and address you can google and verify via google street view, BBB etc.
For extortion Scam Operations, file reports with the FBI, your state attorney general and Department Of Justice,FTC & FCC..

http://www.nw3c.org/
http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx
http://www.fbi.gov/
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/#&panel1-1
https://esupport.fcc.gov/ccmsforms/form1088.action
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/

And folks should consider looking at maybe getting call blocking device or phone..
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=se ... s=call+blockers

Got a voice mail from a strange number today ..it was a automated call with a women speaking saying they were an investigators unit and someone filed a complaint to us but never did name anyone in my household..said that your names respondent to court which you must appear and you must forward the information to your attorney that show cause contains a restraining order and you must go through your attorney to oppose this matter. it gives the number 855-569-0236 to call back..this number is definitely a scam!

Received a call at my place of work. She stated that she was verifying employment for me when speaking with my boss. She refused to identify herself or and did not want to say what company she was calling from. After my boss pushed for info, the caller stated that I had applied for a loan and will now be denied because her call to us had been so difficult!

Minutes after a close friend of mine received a call from a "Michele Green" stating that she was looking for me because a claim had been filed against me. Her stories change and are not true and upfront. It's upsetting that scammers bother you at your place of business!

I got a call from them today after I called around about tv providers. It was from Direct TV.

Answered the call but there was no response from the caller.  Also have another number that calls and does the same thing 866-437-2914.  When will people learn to GET A JOB.

They called and told me that there were charges filed against me in my home county, and that they were going to serve me.  They wanted a credit card or a western union money order.  They called my family as well, but were using my maiden name. DO NOT answer their calls or give them any money.

Left voicemail message harrasing me, etc. foreign accent and they are total losers.

I recevied the same call from a guy with a Heavy Indian Accent, He said that his name was Simon and that he was calling for a McKenzie and something law office in New York and that I should have been notified by a state officer regarding the charges against me. I told him that I have not been, I asked what this was regarding, he told me that he could not tell me. I told him that if I had a suit against me I was intitled to know the information.  He gave my my e-mail address and last 4 of my SS#, then he told me that I accepted money, then when they went to collect the money it was rejected then, I also had bank fraud, and one other charge.  At this point I hung up and filed a complaint with the FTC.

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 from unscrupulous websites like the one you filled out an application with, 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.

SOMEONE CALLED FROM HERE TELLING ME I HADN'T PAID FOR A PAYDAY LOAN BACK IN 2007. I KNOW THAT I PAID FOR MY LOAN AND TOLD HIM SO. HE TOLD ME THAT I DID NOT AND THAT I HAD ONE HOUR TO COME UP WITH $615.00 OR A WARRENT FOR MY ARREST WOULD BE ISSUED AND THAT SOMEONE WOULD BE SENT TO MY PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT TO PICK ME UP. I ASKED HIM HOW MUCH THECHECK TO THE PAYDAY LOAN WAS FOR AND HE SAID $313.93. NO ONE GETS A PAYDAY LOAN FOR AN AMOUNT LIKE THIS. I KNOW I DIDN'T. PAYDAY LOAN MUST HAVE SOLD INFO
TO THESE PEOPLE AS THEY KNEW MY SS#. WHAT A SCAM. WHY CAN'T THEY GET A REAL JOB!!?

FLOYD? You still alive?

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Ok- I recieved a voicmail, insisting that the very minute i get this message that it is very time sensitive that i give them a call. I am going to call them right now and see what happens, if they tell me the go to jail in 10 minutes scare with me im going to mess with them. we'll see what happens, i'll let you know too-

I just recieved a call from this number and they are saying violation federal banking flateral check fraud        


from cash advance and ive never applied for a loan.
what can i do about this they said they are filing a lawsuit tomorrow.

I recieved a voicemail from a man with a heavy accent named Chris Brown Really???? they couldnt come up with a better name. anyway they asked me to call back 678-233-1299 due to a very urgent legal matter. I called and spoke with "brad" he said he was calling from a law firm in new york and i was implicated in a serious criminal lawsuit then he asked for my attorney information. I told him my attorney was named Diana Ross and her phone number was 410-987-6543. They said thank you and hung up I was a little upset I wanted to screw with them a little bit longer.

Received call from this number indicated law suit filed against me, I received same call from this same person about 6 hours ago, it was the same person and the phone number was 646-355-4190, he said he was calling from matthews law firm and I had lawsuit filed against me in NY, would not give me any info, when I asked for address of firm, he said that I wasn't attorney and wasn't allowed to have that info.  Reported to NY Attorney General.

this same number has been contacting me, how can i stop being on all of the lists?, cuz i know they share.

They called my number too, they said that I did not pay a lon of 300 dollars and if I dont want to go to court, I have to pay 530. Well, it was true because I took 300 dollars loan but I thought it is true and I did not want to go to court. I sent 530 via Wester Union but after that I googled the number and I cancelled the transcation. I called them andf I call them mo... f... and other things and I called the Police. People dont do anything they are scammers.

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

Yesterday (3/5/12) night I received a phone call from 855-569-5936. They left me a voicemail stating his name is Daniel Parker with a heavy Indian accent and that I must call back at 678-233-1299 b/c this phone call is time sensitive. I called back and he said his name is Brad. He told me that I apply for a cash advance loan of 300.00. They have been trying to reach me 7 times through email. I told him no such thing, I've never received anything from the email. So I told him to send me the information the 8th time. He told me that tomorrow, (3/6/12) that I will be sued in front of the Florida dep't and it will cost me 5000 dollars and some change. He told me if I paid right now, it would only cost me 1000 and some change. I told him that I'm not doing anything until I see documentation. He actually made me mad telling me that he knows my ss#, birthdate, and where I work. He call my job too. They are all criminals and they should be arrested for scamming people's money. They probably are using our identities.

3/5/12 Yesterday night I received a phone call from 855-569-5936. They left me a voicemail stating his name is Daniel Parker with a heavy Indian accent and that I must call back at 678-233-1299 b/c this phone call is time sensitive. I called back and he said his name is Brad. He told me that I apply for a cash advance loan of 300.00. They have been trying to reach me 7 times through email. I told him no such thing, I've never received anything from the email. So I told him to send me the information the 8th time. He told me that tomorrow, (3/6/12) that I will be sued in front of the Florida dep't and it will cost me 5000 dollars and some change. He told me if I paid right now, it would only cost me 1000 and some change. I told him that I'm not doing anything until I see documentation. He actually made me mad telling me that he knows my ss#, birthdate, and where I work. He call my job too. They are all criminals and they should be arrested for scamming people's money. They probably are using our identities.

I donot owe any outstanding payday loans, they had all my bank account and ss information. They wouldnt tell me who was suing me, and when I got into it with her she hung up. They claim i owe them money from October that was deposited into my account,(never was) Ill be charged with check fraud bank fraud what the heck? I didnt even open my account until November and didnt take any payday loans until recently which are all in good standings. I hope that Im not going to be sued, I didnt do anything wrong.

A gentleman name Chris Curry (funny since he had a very heavy east Indian accent) said he was calling from the parent company of Advance America and that my local police would be coming to pick me up because I have an outstanding payday loan.  He said that with fines and fees, I would be held for $10,000 and that if I didn't want to go to jail, I would need to western union his manager money immediately.  I called Advance America, they had me fill out an incident report, told me to ignore the calls from now on, and most importantly, that it was a scam.  Thank the good Lord there are such things as Mr. Number and cell phone black lists.

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Got the same type of call from a man with a heavy accent today, first called my work leaving a message that it was an urgent law case, I called back on my cell and tried to figure out what was going on.  I knew it was a scam when they told me I owed $10,000 and I would be arrested in ten minutes if I didn't pay.  I had a teacher (I work in a preschool) talk to them and she told them my lawyer would be in touch, and of course, the guy was like, no don't worry about it and hung up.