Trying to steal your information!!!!! do NOT given out any information reguarding to steal your idenity

This is a Google Voice outbound trunking number. Friends have been seeing it as MY NUMBER when I call from my cell phone. I use the old Google Voice App on Android that relays my outbound calls through GV, which is supposed to present my main CID instead of the cell number. Whoops! This "glitch" is apparently exploited by many scammers and collection agencies to spoof their real number. Like Skype, it's a legitimate service that's being abused by fraudsters.

Got a call from this number. "Said my account was frozen." I hung up

I have a message left on my cellphone from them pretending they are a buyer for my products I sell. Can they get in trouble pretending they are someone else to get me to call them? I would love to take them to the ringer on lying to me.

Just received a call for a former resident from Alxis Smith/Process Server.  The former resident was going to be served relative to a legal matter.  The resident was to call 1-855-789-4845.   Scam alert.

This number called me 4 times at work. Now I work at a hospital so there are a lot numbers here but the call directly to my unit. They were saying they are calling cause they detected something on my compute from going on the internet it download something. The company has certain sites blocked which means we can't download anything unless it was sent through an email. Our email is scanned to make sure it's within guidelines. As soon as I tell them they called a hospital (cause they don't hear me say Intensive Care Unit when I answer) they immediately say sorry wrong information and hang up. I've gotten this from 917-268-9953 and 214-838-9953.

We haven't had calls in quite a few months.  In the last two weeks these pains in the %$$#$ have more than made their quota of calls: "800 Svc 888-726-2875"; "Avondale 610-910-8037"; "Portfolio Svc: 817-500-9094"; and just now received this new one "NY 917-268-9953".  First these creeps used to call for a person we've never heard of.  I did find a person in the local phone directory with the same name, maybe she changed her number & our cable company gave to us --- we pay for an unlisted number, obviously a waste of money.  Second: this new set of callers don't even bother to leave a message.  Fine with us....call all you want --- if you aren't in our address book we don't pick up!!  And if you think we owe you money --- send us a letter and our lawyer will be glad to respond!

I just received a call from 917-268-9953. Stated that I will be served at work and home. I asked if I should call in the morning and was told calling back immediately was in my best interest. I knew I don't have any issues that could result in this action so I began researching..... needless to say I won't be calling

Don't worry they won't do anything.

Yep I just noticed the number ending in 9953 which I got 3 different numbers. They called for my brother but I told them I was not giving him the message because it was a scam, I hung up and he called right back different number same person and told me if I didn't I will have legal issue. I told them to please send it because I will be filing a suit against them for harassment.

Got a call from this number today - Caller ID showed it was from Brooklyn, NY.  It was a generic recording saying this was the "final notice" for my "credit card" without saying which one.  I have no outstanding credit card balances - paid them off a long time ago, so this was clearly a scam.

Descriptions in this thread are of extortion dressed as debt collection. Consumer debts in America, including payday loans, are a *CIVIL* matter, not criminal! Honest debt collectors do not typically send their claims straight to a judge, and they don't take your ransom money to broker quick deals with so-called "process servers". There are no secretive "arbitrators", "mediators", or "prelitigation specialists", only sweaty criminals with a script full of bullying remarks. Lawful debt collection is a process, not an ambush, and you are due a chance at each stage to raise a dispute. The agents' horrid threats are empty and their conduct is illegal. Do not reward lawbreakers with your money. Challenge them always, sue them if you can.

FTC and CFPB material on US federal collection law:
http://www.ftc.gov/os/statutes/fdcpajump.shtm
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/askcfpb/search ... debt-collection

See also this FTC alert: "Fake Debt Collectors"
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0258-fake-debt-collectors

"Reverse caller" lists it as "Debt Collector"
but no true specified name of company (out of New York, NY)
These scumbags called my CELL PHONE @ 5:03AM this morning & left no message?!?!? WTF?!?!?!

Called said my MasterCard was locked, Asked me to enter Card # if i wished to reactivate it. Don't know what MC they were referencing, So I hung up. Shouldn't some AG be prosecuting these folks?

Received a call from this number this morning at 4:30am - by the time I woke up enough to go to the phone (cell phone). Call had gone to voice mail, no message was left. Future calls, if any, will be reported first to my phone carrier, maybe they can block the number, then to the police (Tacoma & NYC), then to the FCC. Using this blog to establish that a problem exists.

I'm a paralegal and I've never heard of any thing called a "County Department of Legal Service" before. Even process servers must explain who they are and what court they are serving (or it's on the process court documents). Most assuredly a scam to extort money from you.  REAL binding legal communications are never conducted by telephone (or email for that matter).

Received robo-call from this number on my cell, which is a pre-pay and not in general circulation.  Automated voice immediately warned "Your bank account and debit card are frozen until we hear from you.  Press 1 now to connect to a customer service rep".  What bank account? What frozen?  This was easy -- I pressed OFF.  Classic phishing call to obtain account information.  If the caller can't provide you the details, then feel free to hang up.

Same situation for me - call, no answer by me - no message left.

I had read about the 'hang up and you call back' scam - I was fearful that I would be charged high rate ( like calling internationally) if returned call.

Hasn't tried calling since first call.

i got a call from this number this morning in my class but i didnt answer it thank god after looking it up just now.

Got this call this morning. Joyce Taylor calling from the County Dept of Legal Service used my whole name, calling about someone with the same last name as me (that I obviously don't know) pertaining to their upcoming court date.

One, that would be my supposed family member's issue, not mine, so I'm not liable for anything.

I received an automated call from this number (917) 268-9953, telling me my Bank of America Mastercard had been locked and asking me to enter my account number.

An Agent Kim Lewis called me from this number saying my mom needed to call her department within 3 hours or they were going to go to her house and arrest her. they gave me a case number phone number and her naame. is this the same scam? cause it freaked me out.

I just got a call  9172689953 any one know what this is.

I received an automated call from this number claiming to be from my bank. I do not owe said bank money nor is that their main number. I hung up as soon as I realized it was a scam.

Received call on my cell from this number. Not the first time, either. I do not answer calls from numbers I don't recognize, so am unsure who it was, but I see this number has been calling a lot of folks. Now on my blocked caller list on my iPhone.

Call that hung up after 2 seconds. DNI was for 1 917 268 9953

They cannot "lock you up" for debts.  All they can do is file a claim in court.  My experience with these people is that they buy old debts and try to collect them.   Most of the debts they are calling about are outside the statute of limitations for legal action, so they can't even file a claim in court.

Just received several calls claiming they represented a bank where I used to have an account stating that they were going to serve me with a document and that there are charges against me.  The woman stated that she was sending people to every known address for me and my place of employment to locate me.  When I told her that these are not legal collection practices and that I would report her company, she stated, "I'm gonna call your mother right now and tell her what you've done".  (My mother has Alzheimer's and is in an Assisted Living Facility).  I called the bank they claimed to represent, they have no knowledge of these people and said they would investigate.  This number called again, woman identifying herself as Paris Nelson, telling me I had an hour to call 877-742-3967.  When I called, I got a belligerant man on the phone who, when I told him I had contacted the bank, said that they only collect pay day loans and they don't represent any banks.  When I told him that this is what Paris had said when she called, he called me a liar and a thief and said I had no right to tell him how to "run his business".   LOL!!!!   I believe this is a company that buys old debts that are outside the statute of limitations for collection action and try to threaten people to get them to pay since they cannot take any legal action.  

The bank they referred to was a bank that I used when I had some pay day loans about six or seven years ago.  The statute of limitations for legal action on pay day loans is three years.

This is a scam and these people are trying to get in touch with my mother. They have called my grandma and me repeatedly looking for my mom. I have done my research on all the different numbers they call from they are all different. They threatened to  bring cops to my mother's house and all this legal stuff. Then they called as a "sheriff" and said he was coming to my mom's house to arrest her if she didn't call some lawyer to pay money to. We called local law offices and they said there was no case with my mom's name on it and they don't arrest people for owing money and they don't call people before sending summons to make payments.

917 268 9953 keep calling me