Shill!

As a Texan I am sorry to say that a pile of dung law firm like that really does exist here, but they do.  If you reallywant to make your blood boil take a look at thier website.  They outright abmit to being abusive type debt collectors, something that could come in handy if they ever do actually try to sue you.

GOT A CALL FROM THESE PEOPLE THAT A WARRANT WAS ISSUE  AND I SHOULD CALL THEM . THESE ARE SCAMMERS TRYING TO GET MONEY.

I have been getting calls from this same number claiming to be from American Loan Corp this guy says his name is Alex Harper a loan specialist he says that i will need to put $150 on a green dot card to secure the loan of $1000 please stop the scammers this hurts our economy as well as the people they are calling.

These lying wimps lied out of their a***s. Sending them money was just stupid.

I believed them when he said he was taking me to court for money I owed them and I got scared and payed them 450.00

Just got a call from this number.  The phone call came in as a local area code number not 972.  First time I answered and said I wasn't there so the person said they would call back.  Second time they called and I didn't answer when I saw the call but they left a message saying that "my loan had been approved" and to call them back with my information.  Most of what he said I couldn't understand.  

SCAMMERS!!!!

Now a days I am getting calls from American loan company. And from the same no , And I applied for a loan. And
I am been qualified up to $5000 And then I got $5000 AMT in to my checking AC...Within 2 hours./
I think That the no or the company is changed....
I gladly thanks to Alex.For Providing me a Personal Loan..//

fcuk u all

I am receiving threathen calls from this phone number and they have a accent from India. They will say my first & last name and my last 4 digit of my SSN and then tell me this call is in regards to a laswsuit being filed against my SSN and to have my Attorney or representative to give them a call concerning this matter. I called them back & he told me they have many crazey mother f****rs in america that send them money and thats their job, and they will not stop calling. They are declaring war on Americans, and they said they will break all Americans because they hate them all. Please Our USA Government needs to stop these people from terrorizing our nations to giving them money. What is being done about this?...

well Mr George i think that you belong to some other world and may be you are alien. because u don't know proper English and why are you wasting your time to give the negative comments over here. your work is to scam people by calling them and asking them for money and if you see any competitor you start making negative comments for them. so f*** off.
No one cares for your comments.

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

This bloody moth******er admin and the collection agencies guys are playing a f****ng game to make you all people to fall in their traps. please don't trust this guy's at least not their comments. i don't know whether who is calling the innocent people and trying to scam them but if u see any positive comment about them than please trust it but at least not this c*** suckers , a***ole , moth******ers.  
And i also know that my this comment will also be removed with in few days. but i wish that before it gets removed people should read it. thanks.

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Hahahaha..."Isaac". You are soooo funny. You and Dale Johnson are clearly the same person. Your grammar and language structure are so bad. Are you from Nigeria by any chance.

Your language structure is a dead giveaway. "Local sherrif officer" and other language struggles are a key to your being a scammer

Hmmm...."Dale Johnson". Your English is so unbelievably bad, your grammar is atrocious and your "facts" are nonsense. The is no such thing as a "law against your name". No one, and I mean no one, spells "my" as "mah".

I would venture a guess that you are one of the scammers trying to soften the impact of so many negative reports

"Isaac Branstettler"? There IS a lot of fiber in those "tales" & you can smell the results. No one is going to fall for those two shills. But, thanks for the laugh.

hi dale. i just received the same call from this guys and they asked me that whether i want to fight the case or i want to pay. but as u did i also just searched them online and i just saw the comments that u guys made and then i asked him to do whatever he wants to. then after two days i got a call from the local sherrif officer of my state and he told me that he got my soubpena and legal papers from this company. and then i realised that this guys are legal and they were going to help me to resolve the case. and yes i really saved my thousands of dollars and also got saved from going to court . and guesss what when i made the payments to the loan company through this people i got confirmation of my payment. they just forwarded me the receipt of my payment which was legal and original and i also got the confirmation that my case was closed from the court house. and at last only one drawback this company has is their attorneys get very rude when we don't talk to them or avoid them. coz they reallly wanna help us out and we ignore them by saying them that they are scamers. but thats not true.

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Got a call from this number.
it was a debt collector.

well guys i also received the call from the same number and i was shocked to know that tere is a law againest mah name. later on i googled this number and i saw lots of complain for this number. but i tried to investigate about this more by asking those guys to give me their address. and guess what when i my self physically checked it out it i was just shocked to knw that they are the legitimate company yessss they are and the complains which we are looking here are made by the collection agencies so that people can read this and don't pay the money to this company but pay them. so people please  make sure if u get the call from tis number don't think it's a scam its a real company trying to help you out with the legal cases. i really saved my thousands of dollars. if u co-operate them than they really help you out. and this was not only mah experience but one of mah niece also received a call and she was also helped by them and was saved by going to court.


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Just received the same annoying phone call that was coming from the NY area code and now it looks like TX. "You owe $XX that must be paid. You are under Federal Investigation, etc".  

I have reported these people to the FCC several times but they use "burn phones" so the FCC can't catch up with them.  I suggest anyone receiving the calls to file a complaint with the FCC.  You can do it all online and it will help build a trail so that one day this will end.

They are breaking Federal laws and are very aware of it since they are covering their tracks so well.  Once caught though, and it will happen, a Federal prison cell will become home.

I got a call from a man saying he was from sanders law firm and that I owe 489.00 and that if i didnt pay the police would be at my work place to arrest me and i would be put in jail for fraud.stupid me made a payment about 8month ago i was scaredof being put jailand i dont even know for sure what payday loanhe said i owed,but any i told him to call my lawyer and he started talking loud he saw where i wasnt having anymore he end with f*** u bi*** and  hung up.

Just got a call from this guy who said he was with Jackson Law Firm - sounds like a scam - said he was an officer and that there were serious charges. Doubtful.... its really sad that people outside of the US think its ok to scam people, good people that are busting their tush doing the right thing.  I'm sick to death of helping people out and then later on getting scammed!  Seriously...get a real job!!

Wonder what Jackson law firm in Texas would do if they found out some foreigner was misrepresenting them??

dollars not sollars

got a call from this number saying that I took a loan out for 15,000 sollars last year and that my ss# was under federal investigation and when I ask for more information the guy I was talking to started yelling at me and said that a federal officer would be at my house in 2 hours and then said this conversation is over and then hung up.

I got a phone call from this number.  Couldn't understand his name and from where he was calling from.   All understood was that legal documentation where being downloaded?   Has any one gotten a phone call from this number and can someone tell me if am getting scam?

Said his name was Frank Martin with Jackson Law Firm in Dallas, TX, that I was under Federal Investigation and owed $400 that I never repaid.