Yeah Thomas Feliciano called me with the same story and he told me exactly how much money I had in my bank account after calling the automated bank service using the last 4 digits of my social to obtain the information. When I told him that was illegal and that I was going to have my lawyer contact him I didn't hear from him again. 2 days later, I received a call from Timothy Howard at my jobs and I told him not to call my job again. He didn't listen and he called my job, spoke with my employees, and told my employeer the same thing he was telling me that he was going to have the sherif serve me papers at my job. I called him back and told him that I was going to have my lawyer contact him because he is harassing me at work after I told him not to call my job. I also told him I was going to have my lawyer contact Mullens and Kane and then he told me that the company went out of business. That is when I knew it was a scam. I contacted my local sherifs department and they traced all 3 numbers that had been contacting me and he said they were coming from out of the country and that they are probable using the magic jack to choose their area code that they want the call to originate from. DO NOT GIVE THESE IDIOTS ANY MONEY!!!!

It's a SCAM! Don't give them any information or pay them anything! They're nnot even legal!

WOW! !! ! ! I'm glad I googled this number! I have had a payday loan in the past but never defaulted! These people call me telling me that they will place a summons in my court (well Courts just do it, they don't tell you) - and that I took a payday loan for 500 and agreed to pay back over 1000! Really? I don't think so! What a Scam! I have reported this to the FBI at the IC3 unit - everyone should, these people need to be shut down! Who does this? Scum obviously!

Thomas Feliciano called my cell phone and job several times and when I did not respond, these people sent a employment verification form to my place of employment requesting lots of information.  I then called this 972-863-0925 number and told them I know this is a scam and to stop calling me.  He continued to tell me I would be served papers by process server and I told him to go ahead and serve me, because I did not owe them anything.  On top of that he could not even give me an amount of the supposed August 2010 loan.  he said it was probably around 500.00 because you agreed to pay back 1,000.00.  These opeople are CRAZY!!!!

Do you have some info?

Caller ID says, "Dallas TX 972-863-0925" (see below, they could be anywhere, even terrorists out of the country!) & guy called a family member to, "verify" my information, called my cell & left a message about, "multiple complaints" (didn't specify what 'complaints', yet said he was an attorney working with the commonwealth of my area... LOL, we don't have those where I live!)

Whoever these people or this person is, they've been busy & are using multiple phone numbers from apparently the same ISP.

This IS a scam known well by the FBI (It was on the 1st page I brought up on a google search for scams & appears, from the info they have, to be connected to a data electronic break-in that was done to a hospital I had been to. This family member's cell has never been used for any other purpose, except for emergencies & for myself and family to call.

Checked out the phone number & it comes back to a VoIP service that is owned by http://bandwidth.com/
Site says,"Contact Us
Open 24 hours a day

By Phone
(800) 808-5150 (General, 24/7)
(800) 409-4357 (Support, 24/7)
(800) 808-5150 (Direct Sales, 8AM-9PM EST)
(888) 292-8277 (Partners, 8AM-9PM EST)

By Fax
(919) 297-1101

By Mail
4001 Weston Parkway
Cary, NC 27513"

Register.com has them listed as follows:
Registrant:
Bandwidth.com, Inc.
David Morken
4001 Weston Parkway
Cary, NC 27513
US
Phone: 1-919-2971010
Email: dmorken@bandwidth.com



Registrar Name....: Register.com
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: www.register.com

Domain Name: bandwidth.com
Created on..............: 1995-02-20
Expires on..............: 2019-02-21

Administrative Contact:
Bandwidth.com, Inc.
David Morken
4001 Weston Parkway
Cary, NC 27516
US
Phone: 919.297.1010
Email: dmorken@bandwidth.com

As per the FBI's web site at http://www.fbi.gov/scams-safety/e-scams :
"New Variation on Telephone Collection Scam Related to Delinquent Payday Loans

02/21/12?The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) continues to receive complaints from victims of payday loan telephone collection scams. As previously reported in December 2010, the typical payday loan scam involves a caller who claims the victim is delinquent on a payday loan and must make payment to avoid legal consequences.

Callers pose as representatives of the FBI, ?Federal Legislative Department,? various law firms, or other legitimate-sounding agencies and claim to be collecting debts for companies such as United Cash Advance, U.S. Cash Advance, U.S. Cash Net, or other Internet check-cashing services. The fraudsters relentlessly call the victim?s home, cell phone, and place of employment in attempts to obtain payment. The callers refuse to provide information regarding the alleged payday loan or any documentation and become verbally abusive when questioned.

The IC3 has observed variations of this scam in which the caller tells the victim that there are outstanding warrants for the victim?s arrest. The caller claims that the basis of the warrants is non-payment of the underlying loan and/or hacking. If it?s the latter, the caller tells the victim that he or she is wanted for hacking into a business? computer system to steal customer information. The caller will then demand payment via debit/credit card; in other cases, the caller further instructs victims to obtain a prepaid card to cover the payment.

The high-pressure collection tactics used by the fraudsters have also evolved. In one recent complaint, a person posed as a process server and appeared at the victim?s job. In another instance, a phony process server came to a victim?s home. In both cases, after claiming to be serving a court summons, the alleged process server said the victim could avoid going to court if he or she provided a debit card number for repayment of the loan.

If you are contacted by someone who is trying to collect a debt that you do not owe, you should:

Contact your local law enforcement agencies if you feel you are in immediate danger;
Contact your bank(s) and credit card companies;
Contact the three major credit bureaus and request an alert be put on your file;
If you have received a legitimate loan and want to verify that you do not have any outstanding obligation, contact the loan company directly;
File a complaint at www.IC3.gov ."

This number belongs to a company called "Bandwidth.com" & is one of their subscribers, just like you would have service with say Southwest Bell, Vonage or whoever your VoIP provider is.

Please call them at (800) 808-5150 (General, 24/7)
(800) 409-4357 (Support, 24/7)
(800) 808-5150 (Direct Sales, 8AM-9PM EST)
(888) 292-8277 (Partners, 8AM-9PM EST)

I let them know about the calls our family received, they told me to get a hold of my local law enforcement.

They've been notified that this number is likely running a phishing scam, if "Jason" there didn't believe me, to Google it. He said that info would have to be subpoenaed (not true under the new laws, especially once they've been notified. Law enforcement can go after them & do all that for you, as well as shut scams like this down. IF you want to take civil action against the ISP/VoIP provider for allowing this to continue, then in order to take it to court, you'd want to have that information, and likely print all the complaints from this & other sites online as well, as this number comes up all over from a Google search.)

I would suggest going to the FBI site to see if any instructions have changed, but yes! Do report it!

As I told him, I was trying to give them an opportunity to remedy this, and because he was so defensive about a phishing scam, which this seems to be & likely identity theft, if they don't act on a complaint, they, in some instances, can be held responsible.

I called them around 6:50am PDT, so they've been made aware. If you call them to complain, note who you talked to, post it & give that info to the FBI IC3 unit (see their link below)

The FBI is already aware of this scam. From the link above, the FBI states:
"New Variation on Telephone Collection Scam Related to Delinquent Payday Loans

02/21/12?The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) continues to receive complaints from victims of payday loan telephone collection scams. As previously reported in December 2010, the typical payday loan scam involves a caller who claims the victim is delinquent on a payday loan and must make payment to avoid legal consequences.

Callers pose as representatives of the FBI, ?Federal Legislative Department,? various law firms, or other legitimate-sounding agencies and claim to be collecting debts for companies such as United Cash Advance, U.S. Cash Advance, U.S. Cash Net, or other Internet check-cashing services. The fraudsters relentlessly call the victim?s home, cell phone, and place of employment in attempts to obtain payment. The callers refuse to provide information regarding the alleged payday loan or any documentation and become verbally abusive when questioned.

The IC3 has observed variations of this scam in which the caller tells the victim that there are outstanding warrants for the victim?s arrest. The caller claims that the basis of the warrants is non-payment of the underlying loan and/or hacking. If it?s the latter, the caller tells the victim that he or she is wanted for hacking into a business? computer system to steal customer information. The caller will then demand payment via debit/credit card; in other cases, the caller further instructs victims to obtain a prepaid card to cover the payment.

The high-pressure collection tactics used by the fraudsters have also evolved. In one recent complaint, a person posed as a process server and appeared at the victim?s job. In another instance, a phony process server came to a victim?s home. In both cases, after claiming to be serving a court summons, the alleged process server said the victim could avoid going to court if he or she provided a debit card number for repayment of the loan.

If you are contacted by someone who is trying to collect a debt that you do not owe, you should:

Contact your local law enforcement agencies if you feel you are in immediate danger;
Contact your bank(s) and credit card companies;
Contact the three major credit bureaus and request an alert be put on your file;
If you have received a legitimate loan and want to verify that you do not have any outstanding obligation, contact the loan company directly;
File a complaint at www.IC3.gov."

These people need to be arrested & sued for their actions & the more of us who pursue it, the better. I'd file against the ISP if you contact them & they refuse to do anything shy of a subpeona as well. It is their Internet phone system & they've been notified, and clearly don't care enough to even check into this, so it could be argued that they are an accomplice to the scam.

Someone who said his name was Thomas Feliciano called from Mullins and Kane (972)863 - 0925 left message on cell phone, then called a family member who is only on emergency medical info to "verify" my information. Not very nice when one has been in & out of the hospital.

Family member thought I'd passed away, or that he needed to get my advance directive & call my medical proxy & was VERY upset.


PLEASE people, complain to your local PD &/or the FBI if it goes over state lines (the area code is actually in Texas, so to the person who was told "Buffalo", it seems you've been sold some more BS, unless he's calling from a cow pasture there!)

Wish there was a place to upload audio for these creeps - seemed like phishing for information - likely an identity theft ring, so please mention this to your local PD or FBI if you call them.

Also, flag your credit, as clearly this place has some information & bill collectors don't leave that type of info, or even that they are a "bill collector" on an answering machine - not legally anyhow.

I too had received a notice a few years ago that a hospital where I'd been treated had their information hacked into, like someone else wrote, and also have been very ill.

If someone threatened me with service from the sheriff's office, I'd tell them to do what they felt they needed to & then I'd call the sheriff's office!

This person that talked to a relative asked that person a lot of questions, so it seems clearly is a info phishing scam. Really not OK when you have family concerned about your life already & then to be so cryptic & have them wondering if it was the hospital, or hospice calling. These people had old info as well, and from about the time the hospital here was broken into electronically.

This was not a bill collector (certainly NOT a legitimate one.)

I'm forwarding this info to  my family's attorney, as if someone tries to make a claim after I'm gone, they won't have a leg to stand on & a complaint is being filed for me with the PD & the FBI. I'm not concerned about me, but am concerned about my family.

Someone named Tomas Feliciano called from Mullins and Kane 972 863 - 0925. from Buffalo  They did not contact me directly but called my work threatening to have the sheriff's office serve me some papers.  They also called a friend of mine who i haven't used as a reference for some time.   After searching online, they have no official website. After reading several posts, i have read complaints that this is a scam.  If so, how do i get them to stop calling my friends and work place?

Thank You.

this is supposedly someone from a law firm named mullins and kane but they are a scam do not give them any information or pay them any money they are a SCAM!