SCAMMMMMMMER ERIC PHILLIPS

THEY ARE A SCAMMMMM DO NOT PAY ERIC PHILLIPS

Well TAG has a new number now. 1-877-338-8116.  Two new names: Shirley Stein.  James Williams.   Told me to go get a pre paid card call them back told me or he would be there to serve me tomorrow.   Told me they charged a 10.00 processing fee.    I don't understand, how they can try to scam people and think they will not research this info.  These are also using people who speak regular English now to do there dirty work.  I wish they can be tracked down.
Debt Collector/ Scammer

This phone number is for Trinity Alliance Group LLC an non licensed debt collector out of Rochester, New York. The address they give is po box30051 rochester, ny 14603 which comes back to Norry property management. The LLC is registered to 38 chamberlain st Rochester, NY which is a duplex being eminent domained by the local unversity. It is illegal for this company to do these activities in New York according to the department of consumer affairs. Contact Lemberg and associates to sue them if they harass you.

A Sarah Miller called my work this morning...#855 855 9130 was the number that showed up on caller ID.  Told the assist who answered that she would come to my work and serve me papers if I didn't call back today.  I spoke to a lawyer and yes this is a SCAM.

Make them stop. I'm not the person they are looking for.  They are calling my work

Amy and everyone else.   This is a scam coming out of an indian call center.   No one is going to show up to serve "Papers",  you are not going to jail,  and you are not going to be sued.   These little maggots have been fleecing Americans because most are unaware of the laws and are easy to panic.  

DO NOT PAY THEM ANY MONEY.   IT IS AN INDIAN SCAM.    READ  "BUDDAH'S"  POST ON THIS THREAD BELOW.  

This scam has now been going on for over a year and these indian thieves have been so successful only because people will not educate themselves on this BUSINESS they have going.   Don't pay them anything, as they are only scaring you to make you pay with a prepaid card and then they disappear until a couple of months later,  then they start all over again.

Naw,  Our government will send them 250 Billion in aid and beg them to stop or else we will send another 250 Billion.

i got the same call today at my job. she claim her name was Christina Peck, left a case # and stated she would be coming by my work of business or residence, so i can sign some papers and i need to show a picture id. but when she called she block the number. people be careful they are a scam!

Called my place of work..saying they were serving papers tomorrow and asked the person on the phone to be there to witness? When she asked for a number they wouldn't give it to her and hung up

Message was left to call this number if I wanted to avoid "service of paperwork"  When I called this number I got a message that this was "T-A-G- if you received a summons from this office ask to speak to the legal department...".  Don't find any listing for this company.

I say it is time to nuke India.

TAG is run by scam artists. One day, Americans are not going to take this s*** any more. That day will see a glass parking lot where there once was a jungle full of s***.

They call themselves dept collectors. I am trying to figure our if they are scammers.

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

Woman called left a message saying that a courier was coming tomorrow and a case was being filed against me. They needed a valid photo id?  These are lies, they cannot do this its a scare tactic people. These people need to go to hell.

Same as above.  Saying they will be coming by the house with documents and needing photo ID.

This number was left in a voicemail from a 432-332-7503, Sarah Miller??? She said she was going to stop by my residence or place of work to serve papers for an old pay day loan I myself closed out because they kept trying to pull money out of my account!! as far as im concerned they are not getting another penny!!!

I have been being harassed by these people. They've told me they'll charge me with check fraud and attempt to defraud a bank. It's exhausting and after hours spent making calls trying to figure out legally what they can or can't do and what I can do to get them to stop I'm coming up empty-handed. Is it true you cannot be sued over a payday loan?

They said they were sending a courtier to my house. However federal law states the we can't be taken to court for these types of loans and in return you can't file bankruptcy against them either.

company called TAG they are affliated with Think Cash USA calling about an old check advance loan, demaned payment or they were going to file a lawsuit.