Caller Id said nothing I didn't call back.

Yes, this number appears to be a fradulent lawyer firm or something. the accent appears Indian, but actually is not Indian. I had trouble understanding this person and i am an Indian. this accent matched the accent of Fiji Indians. anyways this person called for some employee who worked for our firm 4 years ago and said that if we dont call back then it would mean that we are helping the employee in fradulent activities. i found it weird that they operate by telephone and not thru mailing or notices. The name left with us was James White.

this is some kind of fraud. stay away from these guys and this number 904-239-3950

I also received a call stating that a relative of mine, who is actually a co worker was using my name and number for fraudulent activities and that I need to call this direct line 904-239-3950.  The guy sounded Indian and said that he was calling on behalf of the offices of Jeffrey Boyd, but did not give me his actual name.

Today I received a message from someone at the above referenced number, 904-239-3950.  He said he was calling from the Financial Crime Division and his name is Office Joseph Rudy.  He had an indian accent.  According to the message I fraudently activated something which I knew off the back was a lie.  He said if I didn't call back today they would have to start legal actions against me.  

This is why I looked up the number on the internet to see what information would come up.  I recently heard on the radio about fraudulent acts like this.

I've gotten several messages yesterday, 10/26/10, from 904-239-3950 from Officer Gary Smith, Shawn Martin,and Gary Smith.  Two of those calls were hang-up calls.  They all say that they are calling from Central Investigation of Finance in Florida.  There were six calls (8 incl. the two hang-ups) between 2:21 P.M. and 7:30 P.M.  The last two threatened to call the police to come to my home and place of business to have me fired and to put me in jail for life.  I called the FTC this afternoon and they told me that this is a third party scam that's been going on for some time now and that they are violating the Fair Debt Collection Act.  If you want to call them to complain, please have any and all phone numbers that these people might have called you with and the company name, if you have one.  The FDCA # is: 1-877-382-4357.  Good luck to all of you and PLEASE don'e even bother to call them back up for any reason.  They will only argue with you and threaten you.

yup i have been recieving calls from this woody guy and to tell u the truth i just tell them to get on their carpet and take a hike....the calls began to get annoying and as i remained calm i managed to make him flip when he told me he was going to fukk my mother.

I would not worry about this at all. I was also contacted by this Officer Woody. He called a friend of mine I used for a reference when I appled for a loan I never recievced. He informed my friend that I was involved in a law suit and that I needed to contact him right away. I then called him, and that's when he informed me that I committed fraud and have 3 charges filed against me. He said If I did not pay the amount he requested, $808 I would be picked up by officers and be arrested and have this reflected on my credit report. First of all, if this was not a scam, why would this idiot think that anyone would be worried about their credit report being ruined if they were going to be arrested which is far more serious. If a situation has gotten that far, credit would not be an issue. The Florida Attorney General's Office has filed a lawsuit against the company who I believe employs these idiots. I do not believe they are using there real names when using threatening tactics to collect a debt. Again, some people are being harrassed who don't even have debt to begin with. It is illegal for a company to call family members or friends of someone who owes a debt and tell them what the debt is for. In my case he told my friend that it was for a lawsuit. That a loan is a red flag. The other threats such as threats of arrest are rediculous. If you have any doubts about what I am telling you, contact your local Secret Servkice Office and tell them what is going on. Report this to the FBI and your local authorities as well. Hope this has calmed your nerves a bit. Have blessed day.

i got a voice mail this morning from an officer woody saying there has been a lawsuit filed against me. the voice mail got cut off and i was freaking out!!!
are u guys sure this is fake?

Hi, did these people say they were Ace Investigation agency for Arrowhead investments????????? A full number didnt show up on my caller id just this...1102 ndthey sounded Indian too

They called a number where I used to live (over 3 years ago), the person who answered said I did not live there, caller kept saying must get info to me right away.  Caller had a heavy Indian accent, said his name was Joseph Woody.  Must call back right away, he was with some type of financial enforcement.  The person who talked to him said this was a scam, but the caller kept denying it.  He said to call him back at 904-239-3950.

Called and said that I owed a Payday loan and that I had to send $500 within the next day or two.  I told him to send me some paperwork to my email address and he said that he couldn't send anything until I paid him the money.  He then got rude and said that I was going to lose my job and that I was going to get arrested.  I told him to file the papers in court and do what he had to do as I wasn't sending him anything without.  I don't know how they get your information, but it is very scary.  I really wish that there was a way to stop them.  It has really gotten out of hand.

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-646-520-0833#pk1GHa8xFCAAgdgjLzhZQZQ

It's a scam, and all their threats are false and illegal.  The bottom line is, these are criminals trying to steal consumers' money.

Here are a few news reports and government advisories warning consumers about this scam:

ABC News:  http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5621205&page=1
West Virginia Attorney General:  http://www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam.cfm
WTAE TV4, Pittsburgh:  http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/call4action/17285785/detail.html
Florida Commissioner of Consumer Services:  http://www.800helpfla.com/newsletter/2008/092008.html

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 gobbylgook 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, Christian Nicholas & Associates, US Federal Bank, Sonic Bank, Hopkins Law Office, CashNet, 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.)

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 (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.naag.org

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/1-336-553-3965
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-909-6789
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/1-310-909-8245
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

...and many, MANY more.

US National Bank Scammers Still Extorting Hapless Consumers

"US National Bank" is still at it, calling up people and threatening them with jail time unless they pay up for debts they never took out and USNB doesn't own.

http://consumerist.com/5086468/us-national-ba ... pless-consumers

I received a message from this number on July 2nd, it was a man with an Indian accent, he claimed to be an Officer Joseph Woody or Moody (couldn't understand him)from A Financial Crime Division. He said that one of my family members (namely my sister) had given my name and number in a fraudulent crime. He informed me that we were both in a huge legal mess.He said if one or both of us did not return his call he would have to start criminal action against both of us. He then ends the call saying I look forward to hearing from you soon, God Bless (lol). What an idiot!! I did not return his call, my sister did, and when she phoned him an Indian woman answered, she was extremely rude and would not tell my sister anything, she told her that I had to be the one to call and then she would connect me to this Officer Joseph Woody. My sister finally Googled the number which brought her to this page. We sure were relieved to find out it was a scam, cause I knew my sis would never get involved with doing something like that, or for that matter, pull me into something illegal.
idiots, Idiots, Idiots!!! LOL!!

This person called me today about 9:40am and left a message on my answering machine. He had a very thick east indian accent.  He claim to be with the law office of Jeffery Boyle and that a member of my family was committing financial fraud and that since the family member gave them my number as a contact number I was also trying to committe the a financial crime therefore legal action can also be taken against me. I FOUND IT VERY FUNNY! I am a student of accounting just a few classes away from my BS in accounting.

it's some kid down in his mother's basement who has no life.  check out 9042393950 9042393955 AND 0303339747 ALL PHONY FAKE schemes DO NOT GIVE THEM ANYTHING!!!!!!! THE FBI HAS BEEN NOTIFIED!!!!

was he claiming to be with the orlando criminal financial division? it's a fraudulent scheme, and apparently he thinks can get some dumb enough to give out their info.  which he already has some of it.  a bit odd, and he said he's orlando but 904 in jville.  also what about a 030 area code # did you get that too?