For an educated man, both your grammer and spelling are terrible!!!! Lawyer my a@@!!!!!!

im a attorney, one of my clints got a call said to call or have a attorney call. So i call the man demanded to talke to her told him she wasnt here he got made and hang up. i got ahold of the local law thay tryed to call and know answer.  i advise go to our local law and make a report. enough reports go in to the system the feds will get involed.

I received a call just like what is written in all the posts.  Same thing, Indian speaking individual saying a lawsuit is filed against me - criminal charges and that I ower $15,484.87.  His name is Officer John Synder.  After he told me all the information off of a loan I applied for on line, he began yelling at me, his voice got louder and louder.  Said he was going to have me arrested for these criminal charges.  Also told me I applied at cashnetusa.com which I did not.

Im getting calls from 9199130786 this man named Glen is telling me I have a lawsuit fialed against me and that if I dont pay $786 today he will start the legal process and have me put in jail and I will lose my family !!!!!! Wth is this ????? And he has called me 5 times in the past hour.

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

These are the Scams!! They are trying to fool people by telling that they have some kinda criminal charges and the police will have them arrested.. They are all liars..

Mark received a call yesterday from Tom Wilson at Chatson Legal Services 919-913-0786 at work. The call was returned today and someone said there were criminal charges brought against him for up to $30,000 from cash net USA which we never dealt with so if there is another name I don't know who it's through. When we told them we were working with you to consolidate the debts the guy was really rude and said "Don't give me that crap this is an online paperless loan. He has all of Mark's information . We don't know where this is coming from.

Just received a call from this number and the guy with an accent asked to speak to me. He was like its a very serious matter, I was like o yeah really. What is this about? He wont tell me any information, so I laughed at him. He proceded to give me his call back number and said his name is John. I hung up in his face, then he turned around and called my cell phone and left a message. All I can say is,  watch out for applying for any payday loans, because this is where they are getting your info from. They just want the rest of your ss# and acct info...DONOT DO IT......ITS A SCAM.

They called me today saying I will be arrest tomorrow for a loan I never took out and that I had to pay $600 to resolve the case against me they say they were a law firm when I start to question him he hung the phone up on me I will be making out an police report on these ppl...

This number just called me aswell. I had a similar phone call this weekend from a different number. I traced that number from somewhere called hasashad. Now this new number calls and once I interrupt the guy and tell him I know its a scam and that someone who could barely speak english was not from some government or law agency and he got very mad and nasty. I hung up and he called me back to tell me what my address was and told me I needed to watch out and then hung up. These people are a scam.. please don't fall for it... I'm sure they got my info of the internet but not sure how to deal with it since they seem to know my address.

i have reCEIVE THE SAME CALL TODAY I CALLED AND TOLD THEM I HAVE SCAN THEIR NUMBER AND THAT THEY ARE FRAUD CALLS AND THEY STARTED TO CURSE AT ME

A man by the name of "Glen" and "Dong" keep calling my place of work and threatening my co worker saying she is going to be oicked up by the police if she dosnt send money and wants to know her SS#.  This has been going on for weeks but this is the latest number they are using.  When I call the number back the person curses at me and hangs up.  He know that his scam is not going to work here.  He hasnt called back in the past 30 minutes but he called at least 10 times before I finally called the number back and let him know what would happen if this didnt stop.

A person has been calling my office at work to harrass a co worker of mine.  This is a acam please no not give then any information.  He says his name is Glen Barnes and gave employee number 175274.  He also goes by Dong, and answers the phone as Jackson Law firm.  This is the same people who were calling 2 weeks ago as Attorney CRUZ.  I have called this person back personally and ask for his information and he will not give me any answers and he hangs up on me because he knows that I know what is going on. We are not receiving any more calls as of yet.  I think I may have scared him off for a while.

call rec'd threating, was told i would have warrent out for my arrest!   scam!! ugggg!

thank goodness i looked this number up and I found your inforamtion.. i was so scared thankyou everyone for your help!

calling and threating me saying i owe them money very ugly

They me called for two weeks leaving voicemail. I pick up and they wanted money.

I keep getting calls from this number.

THIS SUBJECT RUDELY CALLS MY WORK. I WORK AT A 911 EMERGENCY CENTER!

I recieved a call from this number and they answered the phone "law firm."  I asked them the name and they told me that they needed information from me.  The call was disconnected, but I phoned again and after pressing the issue they told me the firm name was "Chetson."  I personally contacted the attorney and he informed me this is a SCAM.  PLEASE do not give these people ANY personal information.  The Chetson Law office has also contacted the NC Attorney General's office because they are using their name to scam people.

They called me yesterday about an unpaid loan. They've tried it before with me. I just told them that I did not have any loans and that I knew it was a scam and to stop calling me. My daughter who is an attorney called them back representing me, questioned their allegations against me just for fun and they told her to f**k off! After we laughed it off I blocked their number. They try to threaten  or scare you into sending them money with their indian accent.Sadly some naive person is going fall into their web of lies  and  send   them money out of fear of being arrested.  I was also told by them that I was i deep trouble for claiming they were a scam, LOL!!!!

They are really nasty people. I don't know who these people are and when I try to get information, they start getting really nasty with me.

I just had the same thing happen. I have no idea who these people are and they cursed me out saying that same information.

These fools called me threating to have me arrested on monday if i didnt send them 100 dollars to start paying down a loan from US Cash, which i never took out. BEWARE OF THESE PEOPLE. They have a foreign accent and will get NASTY with you. They somehow had my entire social security number.

Just called me threatening me told me I was goin o jail he was gonna send the police to my house for 15000 dollars

Keeping getting calls from this number and a foreign guy leaves threatning messages. i finally answered the call today. He was threatning me with some criminal charges. He knew my name and the last four digits of my social security number. I know it is bogus because I have not done anything wrong. I also do not owe anyone any money. He would not give me any specifics on the so-called charges. I asked him what company was filing criminal charges agaisnt me, but he would not answer. He kept saying he was from Jackson legal Services. I told him that I was going to report him to the FBI. The caller id will say Starnet Inc RAL. Please do not give this man any of your information, IT IS A SCAM! They are trying to get the rest of your social security number.

This is a person calling me and my job dont know what legal services this is. reporteing to homeland security.

Got a call from this number out f the blue do you know who this is.  They leveled strange threats.