i have started receiving calls from 214-516-7104. I have not done any business with cash advance only took a loan out from another company. Person will not stop calling and won't tell me why he is calling. What can I do?

I just recieved a call from an "officer" Shawn Micheals as well stating all of my info and telling me I have commited a bank fraud but wouldn't tell me the bank account info

I got the same phone call but from # 954-342-5710  wanted me to send money through my debit card or western union to jersey city to a mr paresh choithani  eerie

ABC News just did an investigative piece on this particular scam operation. Here's the report:  http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5621205&page=1

Someone named DON WILSON left a message at my job Friday, July 11, 2008 that it was critical that I contact him regarding a case he has on me that will be issued in court unless I contact him that day.  

The guy has a accent sounding Indian, didn't leave the name of the company he works for, department, or case number. Said to call him back today at 214-618-5897 else my case is going to court.

I got a call on Monday, July 7th from a guy named Don Wilson saying that he had 3 allegations against me that would go up in court the following day at 11:30 a.m. I did not call him back, but on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. he called my job again and told me he was from crime division and I told him so what and don't call me again that I was going to report him to the FBI and he said he will call again in 10 minutes and I would have to take the call and I hung up on him.  I owe them nothing because all my debt was discharged through bankruptcy 3-4 years ago.

See my message above dated June 20 for more information on this particular scam.

I recieved a message from this guy who I could not understand at all. Some officer yeah please. This is a scam. I called him back and notify him that I sent his number and message to the FBI. Which is true since my husband is a agent. I told him to never call me again he said fine and hung up. Then I called back and the voice mail picked up. Ok come on if it's a true debt collector they would have not hung up and shut off their phone. These are con artist beware.

to get in touch, email info@platinumbservices.com.  That'll help you out.

I have received phone calls on several occasions at my work and home phone.  The first calls came from a man named to be richard long, a second time it was from idian sounding lady, whom I asked not to phone me at work, and just  a a day ago I didnt not actually talk with the person who called my work.  But he left this bogos number that I cant call back (214-618-5897) said he was Don Wilson location Frisco,Texas, and was from financial crime division.  I as so tired of these harrasing phone calls.  They listen when you tell them to stop calling.  I am going to do what I can by some of the advise giving on this site.  What madness!

A man with a thick Indian accent called my office # asking for my co-worker saying he has committed criminal activity. I said call him, not me. He called back 3 times and asked for my co-workers supervisor. I said I was not at liberty to give that out and said why don't  you speak to my co-worker..he is right here. I transfered called and then looked up # in this site and saw it was a scam. I sametimed my co-worker to not give out his personal information and he didn't.
All is well, but I am sorry for the others that fall for this scam. Poor them. Some may be the elderly and that concerns me big time.

Update:

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 (Read 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 who are posing as federal law enforcement. Be sure to give as many details as you can.

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://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01

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/1-925-262-1327
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/1-949-743-1156
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

i am also getting several calls from different numbers can anyone give me the website through which i can file a similar complaints on the net like this number. Plz help me..

I know what you mean Jessica. I went back through my paperwork and found that I had paid over $600 last year and it was the same thing. An Indian guy who was nasty on the phone and gave a bunch of threats.

Yes. Others have received these calls:

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/1-949-743-1156
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/1-310-499-9983

Yeah i had someone call me with this same situation different name and number in September and i paid the full amount. now im not sure that i should have.

I'm curious if anyone has received any other calls. I remembered something last year that happened to me, and I think these guys burned me last year.

See my message above from May 22 for information.

Hey
Im in jacksonville FL. in found notes from another web site. i googled MW marketing like in your prevoius notes and it says it's from Mid land marketing. a loan company that closed.I did take a loan out through them and when i tried to pay it back i couldnt find the # again, or information on the company and now im getting this call. He hasnt called me since friday but i know he will tommorw. im not sure what to do?

Joe, was it from the same number as we have reported? That is really something. I want to keep the police informed about what I find out. Did the guy sound Indian? Have a heavy accent?

In the morning i had an call from someone stating that if i am interested to buy some products but i was in sleep & he again & again he was trying to sell that thing & earn the money. So i think he was from some marketing bussiness.But i am really frustrated by getting this type of call.

That's really stange, where do you live in Florida cause that's where I live. Don't need your address or anything, but I find it strange that you and I both received a call from these fools today.

I cant remember the name of the company i did the pay day loan through. i have it written down some where but can you please write me with the results and what you had to do? i would love to get this taken care of but i dont feel comfortable giving someone i cannot understand for the life of me my debt card information. I gave him my cell phone number and hes already left three messages on it even though i told him i didn't get off until 4 (i live in FL).

Thanks Brian. That makes me feel better. My husband is a deputy here in Palm Beach so I picked up on that right away, but the Payday loan I made that the company folded up on was a year ago, so I thought well maybe...but things he was saying just did not make any sense to me. And when I started researching it online and found all this, I knew that this was bogus.

I did call him back and ask him what department he worked for and he did just that, he hung up.

Then when this guy called me from "MW Marketing" identifying himself as the supervisor, well needless to say, I stopped right there.

I did't even get a voice mail when I called back, I got this load music like his cell phone went on in his car and he didn't know it.

I'm going to speak with my husband tonight on this for sure. I've got all my notes I made during the phone call today and the email they sent as well as my response to them.

Trust me these guys are not Police Officers.  I have researched them fully and they are located in Dallas, TX.  They also use cell phones.  The best thing to do is call the local office of the FBI and report them for extorsion.  I have learned that if you call him and ask him what PD he works for he gets very irrate and will hang up on you.  Also, he seems to be a FLO-RIDA fan, if you listen to his voice mail.

I was wondering what the company name was you took the cash advance out with. I just got my call at work today. The guy had such a thick Indian accent he was hard to understand.

I received today a call from the Officer Shawn Michael. It was the same as I have read, he knew my SS#, where I worked and everything, so at first I thought he was legite and then as we progressed in the call, I really became susspicious cause on one hand he's telling me that this company was just notifying me that they were taking me to court then he tells me that they want to make a settlement. I did make a payday loan on line and one company just disappered and stopped taking money out of my account, so after several attempts to try and contact them I figured they would eventually call me. It clinched it for me that something was up when I called him back and requested something in writing. At first he told me he was just going to tell them I wasn't interested in settling this and to pursue legal recourse then I get a call back from another guy, also with an Indian accent saying he is the representative of MW Marketing and he will tell "Mr." Michaels to email me the agreement. Well I got the email and there's no contact information, no business name, it was something someone just typed up. So I emailed him back and told him I appreciate him emailing me however I did some research and did not like what I found on the internet and was going to investigate it further before I paid any money to anyone. I told him I was going to seek legal council and since Monday was a holiday, I would call him back on Tuesday. He told me the person I needed to pay was the manager for MW Marketing, by the name of Paresh Choithani in Union City New Jersey. I don't know, but I am going to do some more research.

Very rude. called my work three times. its from a cash advance i took out and haven't been able to pay back. they cant arrest you for it though. but if this number is calling you. Thats most likely what it is.

This number is from a cash advanced. they called me today and said the same thing. they cant arrest you but if you took out a cash advance online or any other kind of debt you owe this is how they received your number

Ignore their threats; it's a scam aimed at stealing your money.

This is a very active group of overseas scammers who attempt to extort money from Americans with a myriad of false and illegal threats. They alternately pose as debt collectors, federal and state law enforcement officers, lawyers and bankers. They use any number of phony names such as US National Bank, US Legal Investigation Bureau, Hopkins Law Office, Morgan Associates, White Collar Crime Unit and many more.  These crooks also use caller-id spoofing software and/or VoIP to disguise their real location and to make it appear that they are calling from American area codes.

One thing to remember is that anytime someone calls you demanding money to prevent your arrest, it is ALWAYS a scam. No debt collector (let alone criminals posing as debt collectors) have 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.

The bottom line is, these are criminals trying to steal your money. I suggest you do all the following (most of which you can do online):

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 give them all the details.

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://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01

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 they're laughable:

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/1-949-743-1156

Hope this helps.