I have been receiving calls from this number for sometime now. He said that he was officer Steve Martin, and had a heavy accent. He said that because I didn't Western Union the money to his offices that I was going to be arrested in 15 days and that "Only God Can Help You". I have been working with my old bank to pay this debt and i am overly frustrated with the situation. The bank said that i can not be arrested, especially if i am working with them to get it paid.

They do the same thing with Pat Clark, a generalist name that nobody can look up so its harder to find in a search.

He is a crook!!!listen to me.

He is a crook!!!listen the me.

I received a message from this number on my job from man named Peter Parker.  The english was "not that great", but he stated that he was calling from Steve Martin office of the United Federal Investigation.  Told me that I had a legal case with my name a ssn and a old email I had in 2006.  I needed to call 904.328.2996 today. Before charges were filed for fraud.  He asked to speak with my supervisor.  They would come to my place of business and arrest me.

THAT SAME MAN CALL ME TOO AND SAID THE SAME THINGS THAT HIS NAME WAS STEVE MARTIN FROM THE OFFICE OF THE UNITED FEDERAL INVESTIGATION. "Told me that I had a legal case with my name a ssn." AND SAID I NEEDED TO CALL THIS NUMBER 904.328.2996 BY THE END OF THE DAY  "Before I be charges were filed for fraud.  They would come to my place of business and arrest me." THIS MAN IS CRAZY HE WILL NOT GET NO MORE OF MONEY AND NOW I HAVE ATTORNEY. HE IS A SCAMMER.

Denise I too received threating calls from this so call Officer Steve Martin threating to have me arrested.  He went so far as to call my boss and told him I was going to be arrested.  I was so upset and scarred, my boss made me pay it with his help of course.  I later started to look into it after the continuing threats and found I paid this debt more than 5 years ago.  He too said on my message which I saved that they issued an arrest warrant for me and that only God can help me and Im in trouble good luck.  I then contacted an attorney to see how to get him to stop.  Why the police cant catch them is beyond me.

Try not to stress out over this. It's a total scam.  This "Steve Martin" crook is mentioned in ABC News' recent article about this fraudulent operation:  http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5621205&page=1

See my message above from July 30 for more information on these crooks and how to report them to federal and state law enforcement.  In the meantime, if they call again, just tell them that you know they're a scam and that you've reported them to law enforcement.

CALLED ME 8 TIMES IN MATTER OF 20 MINUTES.  TLD HIM TO GIVE ME HIS NAME AND PHONE NUMBER AND WOULD HAVE MY ATTY CALL HIM.  HE SD NO SCREAMED AND YELLED AT ME TOLD ME HE WOULD HAVE ME ARRESTED ETC.  MY HUBBY FINALLY TALKED TO HIM A COUPLE OF TIMES HE GAVE HIM THE THE ABOVE NUMBER AND HIS NAME WAS STEVE MARTIN. I AM SO SICK OF THESE PEOPLE CALLING EVERY FEW MONTHS.  IT IS VERY STRESSFUL.

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

same thing happened to me what did your attorney tell you to do?

It's a 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 often 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.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/1-925-262-1327
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

I picked up a message from this number.  The english was "not that great", but he stated that he was calling from Steve Martin office of the United Federal Investigation.  Told me that I had a legal case with my name a ssn.  I needed to call 904.328.2996 today. Before charges were filed for fraud.  They would come to my place of business and arrest me.  God Bless You.  

This freaked me out and I called my attorney.  Will keep you posted.

Belongs to a collection agency.