The same scenarion - The phone calls to my work threatening my job and bank accounts.  Whoa re these people.  Will be filimg a complaint with the police department today!!

The same scenario - The phone calls to my work threatening my job and bank accounts.  Who re these people.  Will be filimg a complaint with the police department today!!

This number called me at my job today, 9515434949 threatning me with a lawsuit.  When I tried to get information from them they said they could not tell me anything about the lawsuit.  They said they were a parent account that handles other accounts.  I asked for the child account so I could talk to them directly and get info and they kept denying me.  What should I do?

These people called me 35 times this afternoon threatening me with a lawsuit. They said they were from Financial Accountability Association. Identified themselves as Cynthia Davis and Dean Jones. The number on my phone was incomplete (810-676-161). They left 30 something messages for me to call the 951-543-4949. They had the last 4 of my SSN and wanted me to confirm it over the phone before they would read an affidavit pertaining to a lawsuit against me. They said they were from a law firm and from the federal government. I screamed at them to stop calling, that I knew this was a scam, and that I had reported them to the police and the government. They have not called since. : )

Man calling both my work and cell phone. The number I call him back at just says leave a message but the mailbox is full. When i answered at work I put him on hold for about 10 seconds, he hung up on me during that time. In his messages he says he has a time sensitive business matter to discuss with me. Another time he called at work and refused to tell me any information regarding the account number, name of the business he was referring too but demanded I owed him money. He had personal information on me and was definately fishing for more.

Got the same call today saying there is a case pending, but they would not speak with my bank rep to verify deposit.  Is there any way to go after these scammers?

Ask for Shane Lee, not Shane See.

If they call back ask if you can speak to Shane See.  He's the pain in the butt that's been calling me.  If they call me back I'll ask for Alexander Davenport.

I received a call at work well really 4 calls, stating he was Jeff Morgan and yes tells you the same thing.  He wants my attorney's name and my personal information.  So beware...

I got a call from Alexander Davenport from Financial Accountability Association about 30 times in an hour. The messages he left were all the same and all told me I needed to call back with my attorney's name and phone number. When I finally answered the phone I asked if they could give me more information. All he said was I need your attorney's information. There is a lawsuit pending against you. I finally hung up after telling him never to call me again. It's been fifteen minutes and no call so we will see how long it lasts.

Just received 30 calls from 07/18/2009 thru 07/20/2009 saying I owe money on a payday loan, threatening to take me to court and claiming there is a lawsuiit pending.  The company would not provide their information or someone with unbroken english to speak with.

Unreal. I'm still looking for an address or website to contact these disrepectful, unprofessional A-holes!

got another call this afternoon from shane lee.  he's now given me a new deadline.  originally, it was today, 7/17, now it's 7/20.  these guys are scammers.  by the way, no one showed up at my parents house or friends house today like he had threatened on thursday.  don't give into these people or fax them anything saying you'll pay back the money.  once again, he wouldn't give me the name of the creditor.

received a call from this number today telling me i had defaulted on a payday loan and that i owed money and needed to fax a statement today promising to pay x $.  or he said i had to be in court in california july 17.  i saw that this number was on a phone list of scam phone numbers while i was talking to this guy - shane lee.  i think these people are careful to use different names each time they call someone.  the scary thing about this was the he knew a lot of my personal information so i called my bank and equifax so they can flag my credit report if anything unusual shows up.  they will threaten you and said that there would be people at my parents house and a friends house that would make sure they showed up in court.

I got a call from these people asking for my sister. They called 11 times in one day wanting her lawyers name of record. This was on my cell and I have no idea how they could get my cell number to connect to my sister. We don't even live in the same state. She owes no one money. Be careful

These people have called me 35 times this afternoon threatening me with a lawsuit. They said their names were Cynthia Davis and Dean Jones from Financial Accountability Association. First they said they were a law office and then they said they were from the federal government. The number shows up on my phone incomplete (810-676-161) and they get you to call back at the 951 number.

I got the same phone call today from the same hindu in Riverside who said his name was Joe Brown. He said that I was being charged with 3 federal counts of fraud. He said I had an outstanding balance and that I was suppose to be in court tomorrow in San Francisco... I live in Los Angeles. I asked for information but he wouldn't let me speak. He kept saying I was a crook and if I didn't pay by 5pm I would lose my job, and have everything (bank accounts, credit cards, drivers license) frozen! I kept asking him for the original creditor, and an account number and he would not give me any information!!!
When I said I didn't have the money he said he would settle for a quick payment of $250 and we could settle the rest later in 2 payments. I knew something was wrong so I called Equifax and got all 3 bureaus to flag my credit reports, and they also told me to call the Federal Trade Commission in Washington D.C. to let them know. I hope these jerks get caught soon!!!
This is the address that he gave me where is company is located which when I searched it, I couldn't find anything, 1365 Chula Vista Dr, Cinaga City, CA 90045

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-646-520-0833:

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.

US National Bank Scammers Still Extorting Hapless Consumers

"US National Bank" is still at it, calling up people and threatening them with jail time unless they pay up for debts they never took out and USNB doesn't own.

http://consumerist.com/5086468/us-national-ba ... pless-consumers

I received a call early this morning stating that I had 3 charges pending against me wire fraud... obtaining money using unlawful means, etc. He talked for almost 5 mins about me needing to hire an attorney and that the suit was going to be filed at 11 AM tomorrow morning.  Finally he told me that it was money owed on a payday loan from Sept and that they had tried to debit my bank back then and the eft was refused. He refused to tell me who the creditor was and would not give me any proof. He said I could settle it today with no charges if I faxed him a letter saying I did not intend to take any money and that I wanted to pay it back today.  He told me it had to be notarized.  I called my bank and they said no one had tried to debit my acct and I know that I do not owe any payday loans.  DO NOT SEND THEM A FAX! If you do and then send them money... you are admitting you owe it to them.  I called the Riverside PD and the FTC and reported them. He was Indian but name is Kevin Peterson.

Just got a call they said I owe money they had personal information, I called my bank and they stated no transactions that they are talking about went through they were basically threatening me.