IAM KEEP GETTING THIS CALLS ON MY CELL NUMBER AND I WANT THEM TO STOP CALLING ME NOW I WANT TO KNOW WHAT YALL GOING TO DO ABOUT IT IAM SICK OF THIS NOW I DNT HAVE A CAR AND I WANT THEM TO STOP CALLING ME NOW I NEED YOU TO HELP ME OK THINK YOU

Got the same call to, my wife picked up the phone but all they did was hangup - that's Sprint for ya!

Got the same call to, my wife picked up the phone but all they did was hangup - that's Sprint for ya!

this number keeps calling, won't leave a message or say anything if I answer. I wish they would stop blowing up my phone.

1-916-219-8138 DIGITCOM SERVICES, INC from Sacramento, CA. Left 27 voice mails on my cell phone within 3 days. How do we stop them?

they keep calling my cell and haveno idea who they are very annoying

Caller id says "SERVICE CALL"
916-219-8138

Some recording about qualifying for lower credit card rates.  To speak to a live person press 1.  So I pressed one.  Some lady pics up on speaker phone- there is stuff rattling around in the background.  I'm picturing that the call was forwarded to a lady at home doing this for extra money- cigarette hanging from her lips washing dishes or cooking dinner.  I asked what the company name was and she hung up on me.

I also got this call, but they laughed and made noise and hung up.

Unsolicited, we are on National and state do not call lists.  No message is left if not answered, if answered marketing person has no idea who I am or what type of vehicles I own.

these jerks keep calling my cell about a refinance. i hope someone sends them anthrax.

they claim to be "mortgage pros usa" but as it turns out that might be a lie

Calling daily, if not home to answer there is no message left, if answered I am transferred to a marketing person who has no idea who I am or what type of cars I own.  I am on the National and PA do not call list, but that doesn't seem to matter.,

Got a call w/ British computer voice advising me this was the final opportunity to lower my rates.  Implied something might be wrong w/ my card.

CID says "SERVICE CALL"

Sounds like Phishing to me.

scamers comes to mind when I see Service call on my caller ID.and I have not paid for any thing. BIG RED FLAG

Received a recorded message with an offer to lower my credit-card rate. The message asked me to press 9 for more details. A man answered and asked if I was calling to lower my credit-card rated. I asked him who he was or who represented, his reply was to disconnect my call.

The automated message was about locking in my credit card interest rate.  the funny thing is no one owns a credit card in our home.  Massage said to press 9 to talk to a live person.  When the operator came on the line.  I said why are you calling my home when we don't even have a credit card and before I could finish why do you call.   The woman hung up the phone.

12/16/09 recieved 916-219-8138 call. didn't answer it. but yes its just a retarded call.

Receved a call from 916-219-8138. This call was not about a car warranty but about lowering my credit card intrest rates. Really tired of this CRAP.

Called my husbands business cell and stated they were from Wal-Mart and that he had won something because he was such a frequent shopper (who isn't?). They then asked him for a credit card because they had to charge for shipping & handling in order to ship out his "prize". Bunch of BS... called the number back and all you get is a recording basically saying you can be removed from the list blah, blah, blah. DO NOT give them any info bunch of scammers!

called me with a collect call from someone on my cell, but no name was given. i hung up, then hit redial and a perky girl voice asked me if i wanted to be on the no-call list and a guy voice said his 0

I got a call from this number with a recorded message stating that this was my final offer to take advantage of reducing my credit card rates. When I pushed to talk to a person - I received this rude person that hung up on me when I told her I was on the do not call registry.

Caller Id said "Service Call".
I did not answer it

BEWARE!  I received a call from this number telling me that my DEBIT card had been blocked from making purchase and for me to reactivate it I had to enter my card number. No Way1

received call at 3:01 p.m.-- which I tracd through Comcast *57 and identified thru *69; call was from "rachel" about getting a better credit card interst rte-- a call which I have received one zillion times before!

Received call on Oct 13 '09 @ 4:02p.m. This is the same company that has called from the number 305-000-6932.

"This is Rachel calling about lowering your interest rates/credit car debt/extend a warranty, etc...."

I spoke to a rude a** man, and I probed him for information. When asked what his name was, he replied 'Patrick Joyce'. When asked what his title was, he replied 'Floor Manager'. When asked what company he worked for, he replied 'Lance Fanta Corp'. When asked where the company was based out of, he replied 'Sacramento, California".

Then I went off and told him I did not appreciate receiving call after call, reminding him that I have already made one complaint to the FCC, and that the last time someone from this number called me, they told me I was "F#CKING RETARDED", and that I was sick of their BS, so stop f#cking calling me.

To that, he replied "Okay." and hung up on me.

What a waste of human life.

When calling back this number, it states,
"Thank you for calling back. If you are uninterested in receiving any future calls regarding our special promotions, please press one. Please allow 72 hours for this effect to take place. Thank you and have a nice day.

i reported this number to the do not call registry, on called id they have a number use that to redial and keep clicking on 1 to not recieve ANY CALLS. tHE PERSON i TRAKED TO WAS RUDE.

Oh my god, what can I do, they call me every day!!!

DON"T ANSWER IT!

You did not win a million dollars, or a free vacation, it's all a scam, and if you are stupid enough to answer the phone, you deserve what you get.

Also the nigerian man emailing you about $$10,000,000 - also not real.

Got this annoying call about an expired car warrenty.   It is an automated call with now message left.

Recorded message on card holder rates reportedly to lower my rates.

https://www.donotcall.gov/

Register on the Do not call on the Federal Trade Commission website.

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-714-333-2981

This is just another one of hundreds (and perhaps even thousands) of numbers these overseas payday loan debt collection scammers are calling from:

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-9141:

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.