904-410-6780
FL, US
Smarter than the THIEVING SCAMMERS
Smarter than the THIEVING SCAMMERS
2014-04-17 17:26:50
Telemarketer
Called again today, 4/17/14.  Number is BLOCKED from before; 1 ring and then it disconnected for me!  YEAH for Call Blocking systems!!!

Still going to report it to the FCC/DNC List.  Wonder what SCAM they would have tried today; seems like they use a variety from this number.
GG
GG
2014-04-16 18:01:37
Unknown
Caller was foreign with heavy accent,Ask if he could speak with me. I told him she was not here, could I take a message. He stated ok and then went on. He knew my name/address, I still acted like I was someone else during the call. He wanted to know if she had any kind of bladder surgery & when it was.I told him I think she did a couple years ago, he then asked if I knew the name of the hospital, I stated No I did not but maybe she remembers. He then asked how many days she had to stay. I said I think she stayed 1. Then he asked for her birthday or her "Happy Birth Day". I said she wouldn't want me to give out that info and can she call you back. He said yes and for her to ask for Jack Williams. I then hung up & blocked that number.?
JR in Co
JR in Co
2014-04-14 19:37:47
Unknown
Husband's corporate offices are in Fl, or I wouldn't have answered.  Free health screen if I paid the taxes. Just need a cc #.  Yeah, bite me.
Mgillmeeks
Mgillmeeks
2014-04-14 16:04:25
Prank Call
This number keeps calling me. I finally answered and a man with a very heavy Indian accent answered saying hello several. Times before he started talking. He started telling me that he's from the state health office (he's calling from a Florida number and I'm not in Florida). He said they're awarding money to people who had back surgeries and then had trouble. It old him t stop talking, that I'm not interested and to stop calling me.
Raisha Arnolie
Raisha Arnolie
2014-04-03 22:27:39
Unknown
I received this call today
SCAM BUSTER
SCAM BUSTER
2014-03-25 21:53:13
Prank Call
ILLEGAL TELEMARKETER from 904-410-6780 as a Scammer/Fraudster
Mar 25th 2014 - 2:51:42pm PDT

HIGHLY ILLEGAL FRAUDULENT CRIMINAL SCAMMER CALL. Attempts to INTIMIDATE and THREATEN victims into believing they owe a debt and will be ARRESTED, IMPRISONED or have their debt revealed to an employer unless they pay IMMEDIATELY via CREDIT CARD, DEBIT CARD, or Wire Transfer (Western Union, etc.) TOTALLY BOGUS. NOTE: The IRS DOES NOT initially contact taxpayers BY PHONE. BY LAW they MUST contact delinquent taxpayers VIA CERTIFIED MAIL and provide phone numbers for YOU to call THEM. ANY call claiming to be from the IRS ISASCAM!
savvy
savvy
2014-03-25 21:34:41
Prank Call
"IRS- INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE" ***SCAM***.  Trying to FRIGHTEN & INTIMIDATE people into believing that they will be ARRESTED/THROWN IN PRISON for not paying debts/taxes owed.

TOTALLY BOGUS.

NOTE:  THE IRS DOES **NOT** CONTACT PEOPLE BY PHONE for owed taxes and debts.  They MUST, BY LAW, send you a WRITTEN LETTER and give YOU a number to contact THEM.

If these people call you:
1. DO NOT ANSWER, if you can.  Pick up/hang up to break the call.  
2. BLOCK it with a Call Blocking device, if you have one.
3. REPORT the number that called to the DoNotCall List, if your number is already registered.
https://complaints.donotcall.gov/complaint/complaintcheck.aspx
4. If you DID answer and you were threatend, HANG UP *WITHOUT* giving them ANY INFORMATION and
CONTACT YOUR LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT.

Luckily, I did #1 and #2 as well as #3 on the above list.
This call came in today at 5:22PM (FOURTH ATTEMPT this month) but it only rings once and then my call blocker disconnects!
spoofednumberkiller
spoofednumberkiller
2014-03-20 18:23:51
Prank Call
Spoofed numbers should be made illegal OR make an app that can determine the actual number calling you! With either of these suggestions we would never have to deal with these scammer schmucks again!
Smarter
Smarter
2014-03-18 15:26:33
Unknown
Here it is nearly THREE YEARS LATER and this number is STILL BEING ALLOWED to operate.

I believe I know a SOURCE of these calls to be INVESTIGATED.  We recently returned from a motor trip down south.  Along the way, we stayed at numerous hotels; MOST of them in the COMFORT INN & SUITES chain.  We used an ONLINE RESERVATION service (PROBABLY BASED IN INDIA or some similar location) for ALL of these stays/transactions, including our NAME, ADDRESS, Home Phone (the one getting all the calls) and CREDIT CARD NUMBER.  MOST, if not ALL of these establishments are now owned by MIDDLE ASIANS, including INDIANS, PAKISTANI's and others of similar origin.  (AND, when you check in, you have to VERIFY all the info on the Reservation, SO these people HAVE this info to do whatever they wish with.  HOW do we know they are not giving or SELLING this info to their compatriots in their 'homelands'?)  Before our trip, these calls had been greatly lessened by our actions (picking up/hanging up w/o answering to break the calls when we are home) to WEEKS without ANY calls.  However these SPAM calls started increasing dramatically to our home phone WHILE we were STILL on our trip, and, since our return, have gone up exponentially to as many as 4-6 daily again. I have REPORTED this number to the DNC LIST and have asked for an INVESTIGATION into America's inexpensive roadside HOTELS (and their MIDDLE-ASIAN OWNERS) and this SCURGE.  I will be contacting COMFORT INN & SUITES about this as well.

Today's call left a message on our ans. machine with a FOREIGN sounding MALE saying "Hello?  Hello?  Hello?  Hello?" with BOILER ROOM background sounds with MOSTLY FEMALE voices.

This number has been REPORTED to the FTC AND has been BLOCKED by our call blocker, for whatever good that will do
Smarter
Smarter
2014-03-18 15:23:26
Unknown
I believe I know a SOURCE of these calls to be INVESTIGATED.  We recently returned from a motor trip down south.  Along the way, we stayed at numerous hotels; MOST of them in the COMFORT INN & SUITES chain.  We used an ONLINE RESERVATION service (PROBABLY BASED IN INDIA or some similar location) for ALL of these stays/transactions, including our NAME, ADDRESS, Home Phone (the one getting all the calls) and CREDIT CARD NUMBER.  MOST, if not ALL of these establishments are now owned by MIDDLE ASIANS, including INDIANS, PAKISTANI's and others of similar origin.  (AND, when you check in, you have to VERIFY all the info on the Reservation, SO these people HAVE this info to do whatever they wish with.  HOW do we know they are not giving or SELLING this info to their compatriots in their 'homelands'?)  Before our trip, these calls had been greatly lessened by our actions (picking up/hanging up w/o answering to break the calls when we are home) to WEEKS without ANY calls.  However these SPAM calls started increasing dramatically to our home phone WHILE we were STILL on our trip, and, since our return, have gone up exponentially to as many as 4-6 daily again. I have REPORTED this number to the DNC LIST and have asked for an INVESTIGATION into America's inexpensive roadside HOTELS (and their MIDDLE-ASIAN OWNERS) and this SCURGE.  I will be contacting COMFORT INN & SUITES about this as well.

Today's call left a message on our ans. machine with a FOREIGN sounding MALE saying "Hello?  Hello?  Hello?  Hello?" with BOILER ROOM background sounds with MOSTLY FEMALE voices.

This number has been REPORTED to the FTC AND has been BLOCKED by our call blocker, for whatever good that will do.
Savvy
Savvy
2014-03-18 14:52:43
Unknown
Here it is 2014 and these calls are still continuing.  If EVERYONE here had also reported to DNC, then MAYBE this would be SHUT DOWN by now.

Caller ID said "FLORIDA" and this number.
Normally when I see a strange number coming in on my landline, the one that gets the majority of these calls, I pick up/hang up to break the call before the ans. machine can get it, so as to 'confuse' the robodialer as to whether it is a live, working number or not.  I find that cuts down on the number of repeat calls from any one number, and seems also to reduce the number of 'first time' calls, as well.

However, an offspring had just returned from FL yesterday, so wanted to make sure it wasn't the hosts indicating something had been left behind, etc.

A message was left: A 'foreign' sounding man who said "Hello?" FOUR TIMES with BOILER ROOM noise in the background.  No other message or 'threats' were recorded.

This will be reported to the DNC  and also BLOCKED.
Ivntech
Ivntech
2013-09-23 20:10:57
Telemarketer
I just received a call from this number telling me his name is Dominic from JP Morgan Chase and that I have been approved for a loan up to $10,000.00 but only if I give him my account information so they can deposit it directly into my account. I politely told the man with the thick Indian accent that I was no longer looking for a loan and to please remove me from their list. Then I tried to call the number back to see if it really was JP Morgan Chase calling me and no one answered. It just rang.
Alfalfa
Alfalfa
2012-08-09 13:52:16
Unknown
Phantom Debt Collectors From India Harass Americans, Demand Money

By BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) , CINDY GALLI and MATTHEW MOSK (@mattmosk)
June 7, 2012

Hundreds of thousands of cash-strapped Americans have been targeted by abusive debt collectors operating out of overseas call centers suspected of links to organized crime in India, law enforcement officials told ABC News.

The calls are part of a massive scam, one that appears to target struggling Americans -- especially those who have gone online to apply for payday loans. Armed with personal information from those pilfered applications, the threatening callers, who claim to be debt collectors poised to initiate legal action, have managed to pry loose millions of dollars from their victims -- even when the victims never owed money in the first place.

"This is what we call a phantom debt collection scam," said Jon Leibowitz, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. "It's a very pernicious and innovative new fraud."

Working through call centers in India, the commission estimates that the criminals have dialed at least 2.5 million calls, persuading already cash-strapped victims to send them more than $5 million. Some have reported receiving dozens of calls per hour. They are victims like Cindy Gervais, of New Orleans, who went online for a quick loan when her husband's car was hit by a driver who didn't have insurance.

Even though she paid the loan off, the so-called "phantom" debt collectors with Indian accents began calling to say she still owed money.

He more or less told me that if I didn't pay, they were going to have someone on my doorstep to arrest me," she told ABC News. "And that they were going to contact my place of business, and tell them what kind of person I am."

At first, she said she resisted. Then the calls became more frequent, and started to ring on her cell phone, and at the grocery distribution company where she had worked for 27 years.

"I was more or less was in panic mode because he told me there would be someone before noon at my place of business to arrest me and take me to jail," she said tearfully. "So I agreed to pay him."

After receiving scores of complaints, investigators with the FTC said they began tracking the calls, and following the payments. They alleged the payments led them to a California company run by an Indian-American named Kirit Patel, and that such scams would not be possible without American front men.

"I would say that all roads of this scam, or many of the roads of this scam, lead back to Mr. Patel," said the FTC's Leibowitz.

ABC News tracked Patel for weeks, from the suburbs of San Francisco to Austin, Texas.

Patel refused to talk. But his lawyer, Mark Ellis, said he believes it is far too early to pass judgment on his client. Ellis, a Sacramento-based attorney, told ABC News that Patel was hired for a nominal fee to set up an American shell company, and had no idea what the call centers in India were doing.

"I can tell you, he was as snookered by the people in India as anybody," Ellis said. "He's a 69-year-old man who is nearing his retirement who thought all he had to do was set up some corporations and everything was on the up and up. He's completely dismayed that he has become the lightning rod of this entire problem."

A close friend of Patel's also defended him in a brief interview at his home, saying Patel was not trying to defraud anyone -- he was just an unwitting, bit player in a larger scheme.

"If Mr. Patel was just a cog in the wheel he seems to have been a pretty big cog," Leibowitz said. "It is clear that Patel was integrally involved with this scam."

Leibowitz points to thousands of pages of financial and phone records gathered by the FTC and filed as part of a civil case brought against him in the U.S. District Court in Sacramento last month. When FTC lawyers sought to freeze his assets and prevent his business from continuing to operate, Patel responded by invoking his rights against self-incrimination. His lawyer told ABC News he has had to be careful in how he responds to the allegations in civil court "because there is a potential criminal action," but that Patel maintains the allegations against him are false.

Federal investigators said the phantom debt collection operation that allegedly benefitted from Patel's assistance was one of several that all trace back to the same small town in Western India called Ahmedabad. Callers use technology to make it appear that the calls originate inside the U.S. Victims provided ABC News with recordings of dozens of the calls, and many of the thickly accented callers appear to be reading off a script.

"Subpoenas have been readied, and Monday morning you're going to be picked up from your home," one caller says on a victim's voicemail. "And you have children. Don't worry about your children. We have a childcare department to take care of the children."

"You will be behind bars for six months," said another caller. "And once you go behind bars, you will lose your job. Once you are behind the bars, you won't get a single drop of water."

William Peerce Howard, a Tampa attorney who represents victims of harassment from debt collectors, said it takes an especially twisted criminal to use threats and coercion to pry money from someone who is already struggling financially

"These guys really are the most visible villains in America today," he said. "They make a living scaring people."

Mark Merola, of Florida, said he just panicked when the caller told him he might be arrested at the deli where he works in a Florida retirement community.

"I was nervous. I didn't want to embarrass myself, my family," he said. He used his debit card to pay the collector $576.

Afterwards, he says he realized "how stupid I was."

"It just happened so fast," he said. "I got scared."

Leibowitz said he hopes with more attention, future potential targets of the scam will recognize red flags before they turn over any money.

If callers say they are from the police, consumers should know that law enforcement officers do not collect debt for private parties. If the caller is speaking with a thick Indian accent, but calls themselves by a names such as Officer Mike Johnson, that should be a tip off. And if they're calling 40 times in two hours, that's another red flag. "Legitimate debt collectors, legitimate pay day lenders don't do those sorts of things," he said.

Merola said he would like to see anyone involved in the scam prosecuted aggressively.

"There's no place in society for these people," he said.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/phantom-debt-co ... 16512428&page=2
LS
LS
2012-08-09 13:51:19
Unknown
Same thing some man with accent & sounds like mouth full of marbles. Says he's from a law office & that's about all I understand. If you can't speak clear English, I don't have time to listen to your message. Number has been blocked so tired of these scams.
Travis
Travis
2012-07-03 17:37:11
Unknown
Call me for To Resolve my loan

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Admin: "It's a FAKE comment!"
aron
aron
2012-07-03 17:35:51
Non-profit Organization
They are helping me to resolve

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Admin: "It's a FAKE comment!"
JP
JP
2012-06-27 14:20:28
Debt Collector
So they call me multiple times in a day usually I'm cool but I blew up today I was in the shower and they called three times but how do you get them to stop they call from 5 or 6 numbers 2 from California a Utah one and various states. They don't even know my name it's the chick before me.
daniel
daniel
2012-06-07 15:46:08
Debt Collector
I was wondering if this is a scam also there was a man that called me saying im being sued. for a cash advance that i did not receive or apply for any info on this would help thank you
frank murphy
frank murphy
2012-05-23 20:23:51
Unknown
Call them up they will help you out in this situation.as they help me.
Victoria Mayfield
Victoria Mayfield
2012-05-23 16:08:02
Unknown
the man with a heavy accent called me and telling me that I am getting sued. I never recieved any funds. He told me that my work where I used to work that Ill get fired and he had my account number.he has my ss what do i do?
nancy mullen
nancy mullen
2012-02-08 16:50:18
Debt Collector
This man has called my home on two different occasions - he has a heavy indian accent and knows the last four of my social.  I went along with his bluff and said I owed 6000.00 and he agreed asking me how I was going to pay it back before I was sued the next day
crystal
crystal
2011-10-20 20:20:34
Unknown
These people claim to be from American Legal services.  I went to their website at http://www.americanlegalservices.com/ and there is a scam alert on the bottom of the page, warning people that these callers with the heavy accent telling people they'll be arrested the next day for not sending money are imposters that aren't associated with that company.
R
R
2011-10-17 23:27:33
Debt Collector
Some man with a heavy accent left a message on my voicemail, telling me I'm being sued on my name and ssn and that not returning his call will result in legal trouble. He provided my banks name but had an invalid account number that was not mine.  He was claiming that I'll lose my job and that legal officers will come to my home. He stated the loan was with American Cash Advance, which I have never had a loan with. The person called me from 904-410-6780.
crystal
crystal
2011-10-14 16:47:37
Debt Collector
some man with heavy accent left a message on my voicemail, telling me I'm being sued on my name and ssn and that not returning his call will result in legal trouble.  He was claiming that i'll lose my job and that legal officers will come to my home.  This sounds exactly like the same person that recently called me from phone number 412-246-1514.  I know this has got to be a scam, because he's called me before saying i'm being sued, but i never received a summons in the mail
Gail
Gail
2011-09-22 18:17:40
Unknown
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