there is a person calling me by the name David Cooper he has a Jamaican accent he claims he works for the mega million dollar sweepstakes out of pch (publishing clearing house) i need the number he called me from its starts with 1-877 number he also tells us to perches green dot money scratch cards please if u received the same phone call please call me with this number at 1-406-638-3730 during the days from 9am to 4pm thank you all....

I received a call from a Richard Long stating he was with the US Bank Fraud Division and needed to speak with one of my employees.  He was very rude and stated the employee had defaulted on a pay day loan.  At this point I had told him 'this is a place of employment and he needed to contact this person at home'.  He then proceeded to tell me this is a federal business matter and this person is writing bad checks and I needed to keep my 'crooked little nose out of it' and wanted to speak with this person.  I had threatened him twice and transferred him to our security department within our business and both times he hung up before I could complete the transfer.  I received 4 phone calls within 10 minutes.  Later I found out, he had somehow received the direct number to comtact this employee and had called that number 6 times.
My suggestion to anyone who receives phone calls from someone claiming to be 'Richard Long' and with the contact number of (888)341-4004, tell him to stop calling.  Explain to him it is harrassment and you will press charges if he continues to call.  He seems to be deterred by threatening legal action or the mention of Security or Police.

I have been revievings calls from a place stated tht i owed a debt to us bank and tht they were going to be pressing charges against me and i will be jailed for writing bad chks told company im willing to pay that i owe just ask that they fax me over something in writing stating tht i owe the amount threy refuse to give info only thing they willing to offer is where i can send payment and that they only accept credit card not for sure if this is a legit company or not I spke with a Invettogator Michelle

If your recieving calls form this number 203 672-2112 his name claim to be Shawn Robinson. He is very rude and nasty. Said that I owe $558.00 claim to be US financial Crime Unit. I added this to the other scammer 1888 341-4004 Richard Long Turned this over to this Person. Please submit you comments if you have any.

Like the others here, I also received calls from this Richard Long making threats to have me arrested if I didn't pay. He claims to be with a U.S.Bank(which doesn't exist because I researched it) and a white collar crime investigator. He will not give any infomration and if you question him, he gets rude and nasty. He told me he was offended that I was questioning his legitimacy. He wanted me to confirm my address of which he had a very old address so I would not confirm. I contacted my attorney who called him and literally told him to drop dead and to talk to him if he had a legal problem with me. I also turned this number and name into the Attorney General's office in my state (Connecticut)who will be investigating this person and his tactics. If this person continues to call you, I would suggest you do just what I have done and that is to contact your attorney and contact the consumer office in the Attorney General's foffice in addition to filing a police complaint. He is a scam and a crook and tries to scare the crap out of you with with threats and that is totally illegal.

Leaving this number 1888 341-4004. Threatening me saying if I don't pay that I will be arrested. I had to correct the spelling in my second comments.

Related to a theft via false pretenses/scam.

I have recieved calls yesterday and this morning at 5:00am. I'm in California. using the name "Richard Long".I told him to stop calling that He is nothing but a scam artist and an a fool. He calls me a crook, Saying pay the money that you owe young Lady. I paid something but until I found out that he is a scam. Then I stopped payiny him Money. I told him to stop harassing me. I filed a police report at first he Said Ben Marshall. I'm also planning to get my social security number changed soon if anyone else is getting calls from this guy claiming to be Richard Long send your comments. He is very rude and nasty. Asking me where I'm at like he is a policeman. I will plan to change my phone number also.

Leaving thsi number 1888 341-4004. Threatening me saying if I don't pay that I will be arrested.

Richard Long (888-341-4004)had a young lady call me at my place of employment. She could not explain the reason so she said she had to transfer me. He said he was in the process of signing an affidavit that would give permission to the police to pick me up at my place of employment. When I asked for more information he of course could not offer any. He just kept on loud talking about me and the theft of a pay day loan that I do not know anything about. He want me to give him an amount that I would be able to pay right there or ask a friend to pay it for me. He then told me he would give me one last chance to make an arrangement before he signed the papers.

My mom was left a message by these types of scammers that told her things would not go well for her if she did not have me call them.  I called them back and they told me they would have me arrested at my home or job.  They said that it was for a loan from 2007.  The only reason I did not make arrangements with them myself was that I have receipts for the loans that are paid in full.  They also had my bank account number and my soc. I urge you to call your local FBI Office and Local Police to file a report.   You can also call the attourney general in your area to file a complaint.  Give them every bit of info you have. I hope that everything works out for you

ABC News just did an investigative piece on this particular scam operation. Here's the report:  http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5621205&page=1

It's a scam. Anytime someone calls you demanding money to prevent your arrest, it is always a scam. No debt collector (let alone crooks posing as debt collectors and law enforcement officers) has the authority to have anyone arrested for anything. Besides, debt is a civil, not a criminal, matter.  

I suggest you not pay them anything further, and report them to the federal and state law enforcement agencies listed in my message above dated June 20.

First I want to let you know that they cannot arrest you for a payday loan. If that was the case, my Dad would have been in jail years ago. A payday loan is just like any other loan. Even though you wrote a check to get it, it is not considered a fraudulent check because they knew the check was no good when they took it. Now, this is what one check payday loan place explained to me when I talked to them about my dad. they said they couldn't arrest him because they knew the check was no good, but they can put it on his credit report. they can charge him through small claims court for not paying a debt, but they can't arrest him for that.
Anytime you have a bill, tell that person to give you the company information to call them back. Then actually contact them through the information you already have and verify that this person is legitimate. I refust to give anyone else any information over the phone. Even if they repeat my ss# to me right i tell them it's wrong. I don't give out any info over the phone. There are too many scammers calling people nowadays. Especially ones with foreign accents.

Call about payday loan or I may get arrested paid 1200 already

I had to pay 1800 or risk going to jail

Update:

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 who are posing as federal law enforcement. Be sure to give as many details as you can.

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.naag.org

5) File a complaint online with The Federal Trade Commission at https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01

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

See my message above from April 6 for information on reporting these criminals to federal and state law enforcement.

Hope this helps.

Rich Long called my bosses secretary (i was out of the office) and said he was from The White Collar Crime Unit.  I was called at home and called this number back ~ he said I owed $2,105 and wanted to know when I was going to pay it back ~ I said I had $9.00 in my account and what part of that did he want. He said he know where I lived and worked.  He was threatening and abusive and I hung up on him.  I thought this was a real debt until I checked this number out on line.

I'm making a correction in my last sentence. I put everyting in writing about what this Guy said, the payments that I sent to them and the phone calls and what time and dates. They Police department have a copy of the letter that I wrote.

I have been getting calls from this guy at first he says his name is Ben Marshall. Just recently when he called me again claiming to be Richard Long. He is very rude and nasty, Saying that I had stolen many from US National Bank. There is no such name for US National Ban. He threatened to have me arrested If I didn't pay the rest of this debt off, stated that I had owed $1,206.44. I paid them almost $700.00. But after that I found out that he is a scam I didn't send him anything else. I'm in california, I filed a complaint with the DA's office United States Secret Services, Also the poilce department in my city. The officer took a report. I have been dealing with this guy since January of this year calling once every other at 5:00am harassing me. I called him a scam artist and liar also a fool. I put everything in writing about everthing they said the payment I paid the police department have a copy of my letter.

It's a scam, of course. No debt collector  -- let alone a criminal posing as a debt collector -- has the authority to have anyone jailed for anything.

Your daughter should file complaints with the following federal and state law enforcement agencies:

1) File a complaint with the FBI at https://tips.fbi.gov  She should be sure to tell them that she's being victimized over the phone by an extortionist.

2) File a complaint with her local police. (Many police departments can take a complaint such as this over the phone.) She should be sure to tell them that she's being harassed and threatened by an extortionist who has already stolen money from her.

3) File a complaint with the consumer protection division of her state's attorney general. The contact for each state's attorney general is at www.naag.org

4) File a complaint online with the Federal Trade Commission at https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01

Hope this helps.

Richard Long called and threatened my daughter so much that she sent him $300. He soon called back and offered to settle a $3,000 debt for 50% and then latter said he would take a $1000.He stated that the debt went back to 2006 and that he had never recieved any payments. the loan and debt does not exist. He threatend to have her jailed. He would not give any details of his whearaouts, and would only recieve a credit card or debit card, no cash, no check or any other form of payment. If you have paid him with any of the above methods close your accounts immediately, and report him to the authoritys and your bank.

He has a deep, kind of hoarse voice. Very calm at first and gradually becomes more direct and firm as you protest, then comes the threats and if you try to speak he just keeps talking over the top of you and will not here what you say or answere your questions. He says he is the director and he has seveeral operations that consist of about 150 people that is at his command.

Had the same guy do the same thing to me.  He even called my Director and told HIM they would seize my server at work because I supposely used my work email address to for this payday loan.   Once I looked into this more I called Richard, and called him and called and called him.  I said "Hi DICK!  Its me again, where is your place of business, what state are you located in?  Who was the original creditor?  Can I speak to your supervisor?"  He got more pissed with each call and refused to give me any informaiton.   I also called the local FBI http://www.treas.gov/usss/field_offices.shtml and asked them if they had a "white collar crime unit" and if this sounded legit.   He said they had no such site and that no debt collector could have me arrested.  He also told me that until these people could provide me with information pertaining to the supposedly debt that he would not recommend me giving this man any money.  

Since I Harrassed DICK all day, I havent heard back from him.   Of course it is only the 1st day so we will see.   I also called the states atty office in MD to report him and now awaiting a call back from them.

Same guy called me today out of the blue with some story of a payday loan I had in 2005, then proceeded to call my DIRECTOR at my job and tell them they were going to seize our servers at work because i had supposedly used my work email to obtain this payday loan, (Which I have never had).   My boss was ready to pay this for me because of this.  I told him to wait and researched this some more.   I then proceeded to HARASS Mr. Long for the rest of the day.  I called him over and over and over agin.   I would say Hi DICK! Its me again, can you please tell me the name of your business, will you tell me what state you are located in?  Whats your mailing address?  Who was the original credit for this supposed debt?   He would tell me nothing and eventually just stopped anwsering the phone, (they have caller iD)   I havent heard from again (yet) but it is only the first day.  

I also called the Secret Service http://www.treas.gov/usss/field_offices.shtml and told him the situation.  I said if this is legimate somehow I am more then willing to pay it but he said he had never heard of these people and they did not have an office called the "white collar crime unit".   He told me he would not give them money unless they provided some kind of proof of the orignal debt.

Same exact everything... This Richard Long called me and my boss threatening arrest and other bad things.   We were ready to pay them just because I couldnt believe he had called my boss like that, which by the way is completely and totally illegal, told my boss since I used the company email they would take my computer and file suit against the company.   Jesus, they sure are scarey though.  I looked up this site by the phone number because this guy refuses to give you ANY information, he would not confirm the debt, he wouldnt even tell me the STATE he was in.

Good job telling this crook to stick it. You and the employees he harassed may want to consider reporting this to these federal and state law enforcement agencies:

1) File a complaint with your local police. (Many police departments can take a complaint such as this over the phone.) Be sure to tell them that you're being harassed by an extortionist who is calling you at home and work and threatening you with the loss of your job and freedom if you don't pay him money.  File a complaint each time they call you.  Filing a police report about this is important so your employer knows that you're being harassed by criminals at your workplace; you may want to ask your employer to help out by filing a police report if and when these crooks call you again at work. (By the way, if this were a real debt collector you can tell him to stop calling you at work and, by law, he must comply; but since these are criminals calling you, I seriously doubt that they would feel compelled to abide by the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.)

2) File a complaint online with the FBI at https://tips.fbi.gov  Include in your report the same information about how these crooks are you and other employees and that he's impersonating federal law enforcement.

3) File a complaint with the consumer protection division of your state's attorney general. The contact for each state's attorney general is at www.naag.org

4) File a complaint online with the Federal Trade Commission at https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01

It's a scam. Read my message above for information on reporting them to federal and state law enforcement.

If this company does NOT stop calling me I'm going to go insane!!  They are harassing me at work and at home!!!  The man goes by the name Richard Long.  PLEAE make him stop!!!!!

I just received the SAME call from a Mr. Long and he scared me!!  Deep voice saying he worked with the white collar crime division and when we were talking he told me he was filing an affidavited for my arrest in Florida!!  Is this person for real!?!?