i just recieved a call similiar to these other calls 951-489-0225. it was some mid-eastern guy telling me i was being sued in california and the attorney i needed to contact was david cooper. i called the # and it just said thank you and then disconnected. now i need to figure out what i have to do to protect myself. they knew everything about me. my name, date of birth, ssn, and my address. this is total f'n BS!!!!

Got several calls from this number.

I recieve calls from this number on a weekly basis.  They call me at least once or twice a week, always some sort of Indian person asking me to partake in a credit consolidation program, or to claim a prize ( but i just have to pay for the shipping and handling).  I am getting really annoyed.  Who do i report this to??

yes he does, i have been getting harrasing caals with the same story all day, what did you do after that?  think it is a good idea to call the police ?  I THINK WE SHOULD DO SOMETHNG

yes he does, i have been getting harrasing caals with the same story all day, what did you do after that?  think it is a good idea to call the police ?

Don't give them anything, this is a scam!  I am on my second go around with these people, the first time they said the police were coming to my house to throw me in jail, etc.  They get your information and then you don't see your money anymore!  And yes call the police and file a report.

i knew it was a scam, its called phishing... i just started  playing along.  i told him all his info was incorrect and i kept correcting him, like he kept saying "i'm attorney" and I told him to say "I am AN attorney".  Then I said lets cut to the chase, what do you need from me.  He said he needed a settlement, so that I can avoid my case from being downloaded or some mess, so I was like here's my acct number, ready... 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-1-2-3-4,  he was SO MAD, he said watch what happens in 12hrs, stay home, because I am going to get arrested and the police are going to "shot up" my house.  I was lauging so hard and he hung up on me.  12 hrs later, no police have came and "shot up" my house... LOL

i called them back and offered them cereal bars that remove foreign accents and enhance sexual performance.  the guy "chris cooper"  was really interested and asked me if I could send it to a p.o. box.  I was laughing so hard, then I told him i needed his credit card number and he immediately said he was not interested...

I was really scared, the guy knew i had kids and kept saying 'whos going to take care of your kids when you go to prison?" and things like that. At first I bleaved him gave him my credit card number, with nothing on it, I was scared. But Its been over a week and nothings happened and ive done alot of reasearch cant find any info on this guy or business, and I know I dont have any outstanting loans outthere, I guess they cant procicute you for fraud for a payday loan anyway. So calm down, I know it took me a few days, I dont know why anyone could do this, are they even human?

so far so good one day with out a phone call from this jerk. Idk maybe he knows he cant get to me? I did report him to the legal sites tho, I want to call him back and harrass him and say exactly what he did to me, to him repeatedly,lol all day long, see how he feels any one else in?

ITS A KNOWN SCAM - internet search on Fake Debt Collectors would have provided the answer.. YOU CANNOT BE ARRESTED FOR DEBT!   they are using terrorist tactics to scare you into paying them money YOU DO NOT OWE!  

In the info below you will find the links to file complaints.  ITS IMPORTANT THAT YOU FILE THEM EVERYTIME THEY CALL.  ITS ALSO IMPORTANT THAT YOU TELL YOU KNOW ALL ABOUT THE SCAM -they will not stop calling until you do!  

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.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

Read : http://800notes.com/articles/News.aspx/UmghNAGYQwANpAjL5OOhYA
Debt collectors can not have you arrested and by saying so they themselves are violating federal law.
They are just trying to scam you.

I received a call from this number 1-858-345-4555 stating that my job would be contacted and I could be arrested.  I am stressing out over this, what do I do?  My nerves can't take this.  I am stressing over this right now.  Things like this scare me and get me upset.

I have received probably 30 calls from this number today.  They have left 30 voicemails on my cell phone.  They had all my information but were not able to give me any information to verify when the payday loan I had taken out was or when it was not repaid.  I have had payday loans in the past, but they have all been paid.  David Cooper stated my charges were being filed in Los Angeles county.  I do not live in Los Angeles county.  I asked for his CA bar license number and when I looked it up, the bar website gave me an error message that stated there was limited information for deceased lawyers.  Everything I was told followed the conversations above almost exactly.  
I was told the name of the company was both Federal Legislation of Unsecured Loans and Financial Association of Accountability.

This guy that says his name is 'Richard Robertson' but has an indian accent keeps calling my son's cell phone saying the exact thing.  It sounds like they are calling from some kind of call center.  How do they know so much information about him?  They know his place of employment and ss#, they even know the last four digits of his checking account number.  What can we do to stop this harassment?

I am being harrassed 100 percent by this so called steve cooper, he calls up to 16 times a day. The first day I answed the phone after being called 10 times and recieveing that same mess about having my lawyer contact him. Anyway when i spoke with him he first claimed I wrote bad checks, then I asked him what he ment I never did this then he said I was about the payday advance loan I took out and didnt pay back and now 'they' were coming to get me and take me to CA to apear before the judge on a 10,000 bail that I would have to pay then. In the phone call he new I had children, knew my s.s number house adress old bank info, and my email adress. Of corse he had me scared I didnt want to be procucuted for fraud, when asked why I hadn;t receved anything in the mail he said when i took out the loan, in the fine print they wouldnt have to. So he told me to settle it he needed 700 now, I told him I didnt have It and we agreed to 100 every two weeks. And yes I was dumb and gave him my credit card number, witch I closed the next day. He wanted me to send him a notirized apoligy/payment arangement letter. When I didnt do that is when the angry phone calls started " I better send the fax right now or else im going to be in big trouble" click yesterday he told me, that they were going to process my case at 5 today and if I still wanted to save myself call him back. The funny thing in all this is, the company i took the loan out with still has my loan for 100. This is the info I know He calls the businnes SKA THE name Is Financial Accountability Assaciation it is out of Del Mar, Ca  He works out of a cubeicle and isn't sure witch one he will be at the next day.
When I look up the the business name I cant find anything on it. This guy needs to stop doing this.

did you ever talk to a mona williams who sounds like a telemarker

received the same thing wishing me luck and I better call as soon as i get this and that me or my legal counsel should call don't ignore or else... calle 3x's in a row

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-800-253-8218

what did you do about the harrassing calls.  did you call the police? I'm receiving the same calls here in Richmond, VA, and I refuse to give an unknown caller my debit/credit or checking account information, especially if they are not identifying themselves as a legit company.


Thanks,
TAP

OH YEAH THE NUMBER IS 1 858 345 4555...

received 2 calls today stating the same alegations, i contacted a private investigator and reported it to our local police department.  hopefully somebody puts a stop to these harassing callers...what do they want us to dummy up and authorize some paymernt thrugh your credit card or debit card so they have access to all of your money. you're absolutely right there english was not clear

Received numerous calls back-to-back, with voice mail messages, from a David Cooper demanding that either I or my attorney immediately return his call at 858-345-4555.  Mr. Cooper sounded as if he were reading a script and not well at that - seemed to struggle with English.  Wished me luck if I chose not to return the call(s).

Who is David Cooper and who or what does he represent?

said they needed attorney name and number they where pressing charges for money laundering asked me if i had ever been arrested for this before and Blew my mind!!! I told the lady to send me paper work i had no idea what she was talking about and nothing has happened yet!

states they are federal and i have alligations bout me and its a bunch of bull crap