Same thing.  Indian guy who keeps saying I need a lawyer.  I told him to mail me something so I could get his address and report it.  He would not provide an address.  I think they are using some sort of phone scam which changes numbers.  I wonder if they just get their kick from being rude.

What information is this?

Relieved a call from an individual who identified himself as Charlie White and that I needed to contact him IMMEDIATELY regarding a complaint being filed against me in my county. I contacted the individual at 856-552-0464 within 5 minutes of the initial call and another subject by the name of Dean Willer answers and advised that Charlie White had left for the day. I referenced the case number that was left and Dean Willer stated I would have to contact Charlie White because he was not able to access my file. I asked Mr. Willer what this was regarding And he could not tell me Anything at all. I advised this individual that he had contacted me on my work phone and that his recording would be turned over to the authorities and for his sake he better be legitimate, I also advise this clown that he was being recorded. Payday loan or whatever they wanna call this scam people need to understand this is a huge scam, all they want to do is upset and scare you into paying but don't do it!!!!!!!!!!!! they are nothing but thieves!!!!!

I keep getting calls on my ceil phone from this # offering to sell me any type of medication I need.i told them to stop calling and this guy that I could hardly understand stated he was sending a secert code to me and within a few seconds I got a text message from some other number and it had a email in the text and it stated something about craigslist and then had the so called secert code and it stated do not share the code with anyone else because harm could come to me? Lol these scammers are really getting desperate and trying to scare people. Now I'm getting calls from a # with 11 digits and there is no way to call this number back.the number is 852-817-45948

Be careful, they are now using test messages to get you. Sent text to my cell calling me "Babe", followed by screen of hearts. When I replied with "who is this", response was "ur dad". Told them to check area code as they had a wrong number. "no, it"s  ur dad!" My final reply " cremated 3yearts ago. your number has been blocked and reported to carrier". Haven't heard from them since.

Called my work number and asked for someone in a thick indian accent. I told them I did not know who she was talking about. she became very harrassing, and told me that I had beetter do it....hung up!

i do work for numerous payday loan companies.. these people are scammers.. i dont know how but they managed to get ahold of overdue loan info. it has ALL your info on them. always with heavy accents. DO NOT PAY THEM!!! i have numerous clients that have spoke to them and given their payment info- cks or credit/debit cards. this is not paying the bill.. it is simply giving a scammer your money.. and worst of all.. your info. if you get a call.. get a letter or some kind or proof of the debt or dont give them anything at all and HANG UP!!! it's not a joke.. its being investigated by the feds. protect yourselves guys. be careful. good luck.

These people need to be stopped. I have a total of 26 missed phone calls listed with this number on my Caller ID (cell phone) just today. I have reported these threatening phone calls and harrassing to the local police, called the BBB, and I called our local television station, they do a segment on SCAMS, and I reported this to them. Fortunitaly, they want to interview on camera about these phones calls I've been having, so I hope this will reach alot of people.
So best of luck to everyone, we need to stick together to STOP these SCAMS!!!

This person who has a very heavy accent and threating voice, keeps calling my job and home number repeatly even after being told not to call again.

They called me today threatening etc exactly like messages above. Very creepy. They know my social and my e-mail

i contacted my local fbi office and its true they don't stop they are annoying..., and i'm done with them yes THEY HAVE THICK INDIAN ACCENTS

After we told these same people we will be reporting them to the Police, have now started calling using a blocked number.

These people have been calling our home number for about 3 months now, at all hours of the day. They keep saying that they are looking for two separate individuals for some urgent legal issues. We have repeatedly told them the individuals they are looking for do not reside here, but they keep calling us!

Yes, and they do have thick Indian accents (male callers).

Some guy called my work number and asked for me in a thick indian accent, could not barely understand him! He left a message that this matter is of extreme importance and there was being a case filed against me, etc. I think these companies take turns because I used to get them from a place in Texas as well. Found out when I searched them they were no longer around. Obviously working illegaly.  I have caller id so I just do not answer. Best thing to do.

I've been receiving this same type of harassing call for a couple weeks now. It is coming from the number 856/831-0640, by men with thick Indian accents. The problem with my situation is that the gentleman they are asking to speak to (Bill Graham) used to have this number (over 3 years ago), but these people don't believe us when we tell them that he no longer has this number, and that we don't know him. When they leave messages, they are very threatening, saying things like "God help you if you don't call us back" or "Noone will be able to save you if you don't take care of this". When we actually talk to them, they are very combative and harassing, and refuse to believe that we don't know Mr. Graham. We have lodged a complaint with our telephone provider as well as filed a report with our local police department. They are pursuing the issue with the Attorney General's Office and the FBI. They recommend that everyone follow these same steps, if this is happening to them. They do believe its a scam, but our situation is unique because we are not the ones they are trying to scam ... we just happen to be the unlucky ones to have Mr. Graham's old phone number. Nevertheless, it is a terribly annoying problem to have, especially since we pay our bills and never have collection agencies calling for us. I just hope the police and/or the FBI can stop this from happening to all of us. I know we plan to follow it through the proper channels and do whatever we have to do to stop the harrassment! Good luck to the rest of you who are experiening this also!!!

Received call; ID caller unknown; left no message.

Called me on my cell while at work and told me that there was a pending law-suit against me by the federal government for fraud on a payday loan (which I had already paid off) and wanted me to pay $800 by 2pm today.  Asked if I had ever been "picked-up" for bank fraud and sounded really surprised when I told him no.  When i explained that I had had a phone call like this a few years ago and told them that the "lawyers office" had been shut down because of unfair collection practices the call mysteriously disconnected. When I first answered the phone he said that it was a federal line and was being federally recorded.

Contacted me at work three times after I told them to calling my place of employment.  Stated that I was in a "legal mess" and that they needed to fax my attorney something. Said I had a debt I needed to pay or else they would have me "picked up" for not paying off a payday loan (that I never took out).  They also attempted to verify my SS#. Since they had my SS# I took down their number and called them back.  They told me it was a federal line, that I was being recorded, and that they were the "law".  I insisted they give me their company name, address, and the name and address of the originator supposed creditor.  They did not, but instead transferred me to "officer" Williams who said he was handing me over to the courts if I did not provide my financial information within 20 minutes.  I called back and informed them that they were in violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practice Act, and that I had no such debt, and that I had reported them to my state and local police as well as the Federal Trade Commission (which I did).  They've called me again, but I won't answer again.

I had a message left after I came in to work that said to call Jenny Robeson concerning a legal matter at 410-807-4506. I haven't called back, but checked the caller ID and the number that they actually called from was 1-856-831-0640. so I googled that number and here I am, I saw all these comments about them.

keep getting calls from 856-831-0640, lady with a strong accent asking for Terry Delamore or something like that. I keep telling her she has the wrong number but hangs up on me and calls back.

They keep calling me too.  Very thinck indian accent can hardley understand a word they are saying.  They say I owe 1500 to a payday loan that I have never heard of.  I ask them everytime they call to give me something in writing and they refuse and get very rude.  They have also started leaving messages with other co workers extensions.  I have finally today filed a complaint with the FTC and my attorney generals office.

A guy named "Jeff Douglas" (in a thick, almost non understandable accent) keeps calling me and leaving threatening messages.  He always leaves the exact same message saying "Chad, if you do not return this call at once, (pauses and lets out foreboding groan), I wish you luck as this situation unfolds on you".  He gives me a different number to call him back on, 410-505-8128.  I think I fell for this same type of scam a couple years when the same thing happened, I answered the phone and was told I still owed money to a payday outfit that I was almost certain I had settled matters with.  they told me I committed some federal crime (internet fraud, checks across state lines, etc...).  I had know idea what was going on.  They only accepted a western union payment and told me I would be arrested if I didn't pay.  It was only like $100.  I guess I was scared.  Anyway I will never fall for that again.  "Jeff" never gives a business name in his messages and I get shot to a mail box that is always locked when I try to call the 856 number.  I will NOT call "Jeff" back on his hotline number 410-505-8128.  I don't want him to have any information.  this is a scam that preys on peoples' fears.

I received a call this morning regarding the same information the other people have listed.  He said his name was "John Smith" , but he had a very strong indian accent and I could hardly understand him.  He gave me his number, 410-505-8128, and said I had two hours to deceide what I wanted to do about a payday loan debt that I owed to US National Bank.  He said I had two hours to come up with $996.00 or else I would be picked up by the police.  He stated that my file was downloaded and was being processed to charge me with various crimes which would include: wire fraud, check fraud, violation of federal trade practices, etc.  He said US National Bank was going to make an example of me and have me put into jail.  He even asked me what my two children would do without their mother when I'm put into jail.  I googled the phone number that came up on the caller id, which was 856-831-0640 and found this website.  At the end of the phone call, which lasted twenty minutes, he told me to be safe and be careful because he didn't know when I would be picked up.

A guy named "Jeff Douglas" (in a thick accent) keeps calling me and leaving threatening messages.  He always leaves the exact same message saying "Tamara, if you do not return this call at once, (pauses and lets out foreboding groan), I wish you luck as this situation unfolds on you".  He gives me a different number to call him back on, 949-743-1140 (caller ID says 856-831-0640).  When I call 949-743-1140 I get a recording stating the person at extension 4066323 is unavailalbe and asks I leave a message immediately follwed by a messaging saying sorry users mailbx cannot accept more, good bye.

I've gotten numerous calls where this number pops up on caller ID, but the call-back number is 410-505-8128. Same scenerio as discribed above - Jeff Douglas, John Smith; THICK accents. Has told me to contact my lawyer, refuses to provide any information (in fact says he doesn't have too). I've told them not to call, they won't for an hour or so, then they start all over again (as if I changed my mind about talking to them)

I am getting the same calls.  I fell for it the first time because I did at one time take a loan out.  I thought maybe I forgot to pay.  I sent them money and now 2 months latter they are calling me again.  I have submitted a complaint the the states attorney.  Don't know how to get rid of them.  I can't hardly understand them when they call.

they call my place of employment every now and then asking for an employee that hasn't worked here in 2 years.  these guys give indians a bad name.

these people called me at my job about 20 times in one day!!  My friends at work started answering the phone and telling them I didn't work there anymore.  One guy called my friend Jennifer a b***ch!  Finally told them we had reported them to the local authorities and FBI - the calls stopped.

did anything ever happen to you?

YOU WERE SCAMMED - THERE WAS NO DEBT TO COLLECT AND YOU GAVE THEM MONEY FOR NOTHING


PROTECT YOURSELF!  IMPORTANT INFORMATION YOU MUST READ ? HOW THE SCAM WORKS AND WHAT AGENCIES TO REPORT THEM TO
LONG RUNNING AND KNOWN SCAM ? ALL OVER INTERNET AND NEWS FOR ALMOST 2 YEARS NOW

Fake Debt Collectors ? Terrorizing Consumers

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5621205&page=1


MORE ON FAKE DEBT COLLECTORS
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-9141
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/call4action/17285785/detail.html
http://www.800helpfla.com/newsletter/2008/092008.html

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2010/01/ks_debt_collection.html   latest release of information on this scam

http://www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam.cfm
Attorney General Darrell McGraw took the extraordinary step today of warning the public about a band of scam artists making threats to consumers who allegedly obtained Internet payday loans in West Virginia and across the nation. The consumers they threaten never obtained a loan at all or paid it off years ago.

Internet payday loans are short-term loans or cash advances, usually for 14 days, made over the Internet via interactive web sites and secured by an agreement authorizing debits of the loan and all fees owed from the consumer?s checking account. These loans typically charge interest rates ranging from 600-800 APR and are unlawful in West Virginia.

The scam artists, who speak English with a foreign accent, call themselves ?U.S. National Bank,? ?Federal Investigation Bureau,? ?United Legal Processing? and numerous other phony names. They refuse to disclose real names and addresses and are believed to be operating ?off the grid? from homes, automobiles, or from off shore locations or foreign countries, including India. Since the scammers have kept themselves purposely well hidden, thus far no law enforcement agencies have succeeded in locating or shutting them down.

The scammers typically pose as law enforcement officers, investigators, lawyers, and bankers and threaten consumers that they will be arrested for ?bank fraud? or other fictitious crimes unless money is wired immediately. They simultaneously scare and confuse consumers by using meaningless legalese gobbledygook phrases such as, ?We are downloading warrants against you? or ?We are filing an affidavit against you.? Consumers who don?t immediately fall for the scam are warned, ?Only God can help you now.?

The scammers almost always call consumers at work several times a day, and tell their supervisors, ?Your employee has committed fraud and is about to be arrested.? Such threats have proven unsettling even to the most savvy consumers and employers who suspect the calls are fraudulent.

Attorney General McGraw stated, ?Ordinarily my office protects consumers from fraudulent activities by seeking injunctions in court. But legal action cannot be taken until the scam artists can be located. Even then, it is unlikely that the persons behind the fraudulent calls and extortionist threats would obey a court order. In this case, the consumer?s best defense is to be armed with the knowledge of the scam so that all demands for money can be resisted, despite the false but scarey threats of arrest.?

McGraw added, ?Because the fraudsters make a special point of calling consumers repeatedly at work, employers must understand that the consumers are innocent victims of a criminal enterprise and cannot stop the calls from coming. I also wish to assure the citizens of West Virginia that my office will continue to do everything possible to locate and shut down the outlaw debt collectors.?

More information about this fraudulent debt collection scheme is available at the Attorney General?s website, www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam. Any consumers who have been threatened by these persons or wish to file a complaint about another consumer matter may do so by calling the Consumer Protection Hot Line, 1-800-368-8808, or by obtaining a complaint form from the Attorney General?s web site.

It's a debt collection scam. And all their threats are false and illegal.
This is a very active group of scammers, many of whom are calling from India (and probably other countries) and are in cahoots with a group of American pay day loan scammers. They attempt to extort money from consumers with a myriad of false and illegal threats, and alternately pose as debt collectors, federal and state law enforcement officers, lawyers and bankers. Their trademark is to use meaningless legalese gobblygook phrases like "We are downloading warrants against you" or "We are filing an affidavit against you." Another trademark phrase is to threaten the consumer with something like this ridiculous phrase: "If you don't pay then only God can help you."
Typical of many financial scams of this variety, they usually demand payment via Western Union or MoneyGram or credit card. They use any number of phony names such as US National Bank, Federal Investigation Bureau, US Legal Investigation Bureau, Hopkins Law Office, United Legal Processing, Morgan Associates, United Pay Services, National Processing, White Collar Crime Unit and many more.  These criminals also use many phone numbers from many area codes; they're probably using caller-id spoofing software and/or VoIP to disguise their real location.
The main thing to remember is that anytime someone calls you demanding money to prevent your arrest, or demanding your lawyer's name so they can sue you, it is ALWAYS a scam. No debt collector (let alone criminals posing as debt collectors) has the authority to have anyone arrested for anything. (And it's illegal to them to threaten such a thing.) And since these foreign dirtbags routinely impersonate law enforcement, it's also important to remember that American law enforcement officers aren't in the business of debt collection.  (Debt is a civil, not a criminal, matter.)
The bottom line is, these are criminals trying to steal your money.
A consumer posting a complaint about these same scammers at http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-718-831-7157 notes that 718-831-7157 is associated with an India-based "outsourcing" telephone bank.  Though a reverse search on WhitePages.com shows that 718-831-7157 is an unlisted land line in New York City, information on Debtbuyers.Com shows that that number is used by India-based Intellisourze. (Source: http://www.debtbuyers.com/debtbuyers.asp ) My guess is that it's a VoIP phone number.
This is another piece of the puzzle that fits in perfectly with other information about this scam. There are some reports on 800Notes that have suggested that the crooks behind this offshore scam are also the crooks behind the notorious Bass/Ellis Crosby & Assoc./States Predisposition scams in Florida and Georgia. The interesting thing is that the number of complaints on here about the US National Bank/US Legal Investigation/Federal Investigation scam skyrocketed *after* April 7, 2008 when Florida obtained a $1.3 million judgment against Ted Ellis Crosby, shutdown his operations and barred him from ever conducting debt collections in Florida (Read http://myfloridalegal.com/newsrel.nsf/newsrel ... 5257424005858A6 ) There's certainly a good chance that the crooks placing these calls from India are doing so on behalf of the American crooks behind the Crosby/Bass/States Predisposition scams.
Here's the contact information for the phone bank in India:
IntellisOurzE BPO
701, Sapphier, Nr. Cargo Motors,
C.G. Road Navrangpura,
Ahmedabad - 9. (Guj.) INDIA.
E-Mail: info@intellisourze.com
Website: www.intellisourze.com
A check on the domain name "intellisourze.com" shows that the website and name registration was created on May 8, just one month *after* the Crosby scams were shut down in Florida:
Domain Name: INTELLISOURZE.COM
Registrant:  Pragra Infratech Pvt. Limited.
Email:  ankur.ranpariya@pragra.com  
908, Aksaht Tower, Nr. ICICI Bank
Opp. Rajpath Club, S.G. Highway
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India 380054
Tel. +91.7926871353
Creation Date: 08-May-2008
Expiration Date: 08-May-2009
Domain servers in listed order: ns5.znetindia.com ns4.znetindia.com
(Source: http://whois.domaintools.com/intellisourze.com )
Though scam calls from these crooks have been going on long before May 8, the frequency of complaints about these calls increased considerably after Crosby was shut down in early April.
This is conjecture, but appearances suggest that Crosby and company were originally running a two-pronged payday loan scam operation -- with some calls being made from Jacksonville, Florida and other calls being made from a phone bank in India (and possibly other countries); then, after the Florida Attorney General shut down the Crosby scams in Florida, the Crosby crooks transferred most of their scam efforts to the India phone bank.

If you are targeted by these criminals, be sure to report them to all the following federal and state law enforcement agencies (most of which you can do online or over the phone):
1.    The U.S. Secret Service is responsible for protecting the country's financial infrastructure and payment systems from international and domestic threats. Call or write your local Secret Service field office to alert them to the details of this attempted extortion. The addresses and phone numbers for the local Secret Service field offices are listed at http://www.secretservice.gov/field_offices.shtml or in your phone book.
2.    Alert the FBI at https://tips.fbi.gov Be sure to tell the FBI that you are being targeted by extortionists over the phone. And if the crooks claim to be law enforcement or lawyers, officers of the court or bankers, be sure to include that information in your report.
3.    File a complaint with your local police. Most police departments will take a report over the phone.  Be sure to tell them that you're being targeted by an extortionist and give them all the details.
4.    File a complaint your state's attorney general, the contact information for whom is at www.wvago.gov
5.    File a complaint online with The Federal Trade Commission at https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en
If these crooks call back, promise them nothing, pay them nothing and tell them nothing other than that you know they're a scam and that you've reported them to law enforcement. (And be sure to report them to all the agencies above each time they call you.)

By the way, here's just a small sample of numbers used by this particular group of scammers. Read the reports and you'll see the same pattern time and again -- phony organization names, thick foreign accents, and oddly worded threats that are so melodramatic and ridiculous that it's laughable:

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-925-262-1327
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-678-954-6346
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-341-4004
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-856-831-0640
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-949-743-1140
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-410-505-8128
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-917-464-2534
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-210-858-6602
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-775-2121
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-949-743-1156
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-245-1402
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-245-0922
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-723-5572
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-2863
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-718-831-7157
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-2857
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-858-244-0444
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-954-678-9724
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-610-571-3252
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-310-909-8245
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-310-499-9983
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-771-9249   Scammer posting here as GARY and GARRY JONES
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-866-860-4509   Scammer posting here as Mike Henderson
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-212-500-0839   Scammer posting here as Ricky
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-201-244-7722   Scammer posting as Carole, David Brown and Amanda
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-626-200-4646   Scammer placing false postings at this new number as silshan kanniue and Tina ? preparing a new number to use.
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-424-354-4270   Scammer placing false postings as Rose
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-785-4479   Scammer posting as Robert
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-909-327-4870   Scammer placing false postings as Marry
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-646-274-1143   Scammer placing false postings as Karen Miller


Scam alert: Bogus debt collectors
By Leslie McFadden ? Bankrate.com
Monday, Aug. 3
Posted 2 p.m.
Bankrate reporter Leslie McFadden contributed this entry.
This scam isn't technically about credit cards, but it is scary enough to post a warning. The Better Business Bureau issued an alert today saying consumers across the country are getting phone calls from bogus debt collectors claiming default on a payday loan. Of course, the consumer needs to pay a large fee to avoid arrest -- as much as $1,000.
The caller poses as a lawyer, and may threaten extradition to face trial if the consumer doesn't pay up immediately.
What makes these calls alarming -- and perhaps convincing -- is that the perpetrators reference the consumer's personal information, such as the person's Social Security number, driver's license number, previous bank account numbers, home address -- even personal references.
"The amount of information they have is really troubling," says BBB spokeswoman Alison Southwick. She adds that the amount of data points to a possible security breach.
Spread the word to your friends and family: Don't give out personal or financial information to an unknown caller. Scammers can spoof Caller ID to display different numbers, so trust your instincts over technology.
The BBB offers these tips:
?    Ask the debt collector to provide official documentation which substantiates the debt.
?    Do not provide or confirm any bank account, credit card or other personal information over the phone until you have confirmed the legitimacy of the call.
?    File a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission online if the caller is abusive, uses threats or otherwise violates federal telemarketing laws or the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
?    File a complaint with the Better Business Bureau online if you believe a debt collector is trying to scam you.