I have received various calls from this number Saying it was Michael Johns and he has been threating me saying i was going to loose my job if i did not call him with my attorney hes been harrassing me with different names

I have received many phone calles from this number they are a big SCAM please report this number to everyone.  they use all different names and if you call them back they use vulgar language  or just hang up. these people are very good. I have tryed many ways to find out who they are i have contacted the atterny general.

i have recived the same calls from these people they are a scam i am already chanfed my banking infi called ssa and they will tell u further steps to take !!! as far as getting them to stop i have not got that to happen then when i say i am reporting u to the fbi i know your a scam and fraud they hang up on me!! i am just afraid they will sell my info to other scammers if u have had any sucess turning these scammers in please call me 1-734-217-9311

I have received a phone call from this number saying he is a Logan Smith, and that I will be sorry if I dont call him back. They will call my work of Employment and it will be on me and  I will go on file.. Whatever that means....

Their new number that they are using is 954-707-6984.  They call from Egypt i have the phone records to prove it!!!

Why would you even givethem the light of day. You should have hung up. Sorry you lost your money.

yes my daughter we have file a comlaint with the FBI. There is no such number

my daughter was getting threatening calls. we have file with the FBI. there is no such people they area bunch of scam artist. nowthe number doesnot even work becayse I started harrassing them. Hope they get caught. Now when you call it is busy or an operator comes on and says your call cannot be completed

I have been receiving calls i tell the scammers that i have reported them to the fbi and they hang up on me!!!! Thankfully they didnt scam me out of any money yet hopefully they cant get into my bank i have changed all my account info everywhere and contacted ssa about them having the last 4 digits of my social i have no idea if they have the rest!! i have done what i know to do but if these people have stolen my idenity do i need to be concerned that they will sell it to someone else!! please call me if you have had any sucess in stopping these calls and reporting them they need to be stopped!!! lisa valenti 1-734-217-9311 please call me if u can help (they) call from (1-310-598-1661) and a cople other numbers but mostly this 1661 (1-530-287-5003) is another they used!!

I am  writing concerning a fraudulent act that was committed against me. I had a guy name Kevin Peterson from Texas from First Financial Services contact me acting as if he was a bill collector collecting on a  loan  I owed on.

he told me I had to pay $300 on that day to stop the pending lawsuit. Once I did that I could make the remaining payment.

Upon doing so he later called me stating they payment was declined even after my bank stated it went through. even after checking online it verified the same.

He later said if by Monday it did not go through then he would call me back. When he did he said it didn?t go through and when was I going to pay the rest of the money.

I said we discussed that I was going to do payment arrangements. He proceeded with I couldn?t not I had to make  full  payment or the lawsuit would be filled and then my wages would be garnished federal agents would visit my job and amongst other things.

He gave me a case number a judge's name and address for Los Angeles court house informing me my courtdate would the next day. I informed him that I was in South Florida and it would be impossible to.

I work extremely hard and I am very upset that this so called company scared me into giving them money and threatening me.


This is the information I have on the Company and hopefully you can assist me in getting my money back and also getting this company shut down. I did my own investigations but to no avail.

First Financial Services
Kevin Peterson
contact number 310-598-1661/ fax number 858-7639
Texas

I hope this can help.

Valerie Barthelus
Clerk Specialist IV
Facilities and Construction Management/Design Service
754-321-1572                     754-321-1687Fax
Email:Valerie.Barthelus@browardschools.com

On Friday, September 25, 2009, a man named Logan Smith called and left a very threatening message on my cell phone. He called from phone number
1-310-598-1661! I could hardly understand him because of his accent. Then this past Tuesdsay he called and left me several messages which were threatening and ugly.Said that if I didn't call him back within 24 hours he would have me arrested and fired from my job. Called back within 5 minues and left a message stating that he was fed up and that I would be sorry. He was sending my papers to the courthouse! I called back and they hung up on me.

I have been getting calls for the last two months from some foreign man by the name of robert. Says i owe money for payday loan and i am going to be arrested and extradited to california to stand trial for fraud. WTF!! This is bull. Says dont ignore and if i do My god bless you" and good luck. Who are these people? Calling from 310-598-1661 and 786-270-1630. Says the name is "CYbercrime" and uses the f word alot. I am in customer service and i would never use language like that. Very unprofessional. This is a total scam. How do you make them stop?

I've beeb getting the same calls at home and at work, so that my coworkers and I have resorted to telling thes crooks that I don't work there anymore.  Although the calls have lessened, they still try calling and anways say: "May God bless you if you don't call us back.", and words to that effect.  PLEASE don't be sandbagged by these a-holes and don't give them any information.  Don't be intimidated by them. although they will try to do just that with you.  I've tried working with my town police where I live and also with police in the town I work in as calls have been coming to both home and work, bot my work town police were supposed to send a detectice to my workplace 4 weeks age, and they never did.  I suppose it's not too important to them and maybe they're at the donut shop in the next town.  Please do be careful.

This scam has been going on for well over a year, now and has been recognized as such by the BBB:

Chicago, IL ? August 5, 2009 ? The Better Business Bureau is issuing an alert about phony debt collectors that are calling consumers nationwide and claiming that they have defaulted on a payday loan and will be arrested if they don?t pay immediately. Claiming to be lawyers, the scammers say they are with the ?Financial Accountability Association? or the ?Federal Legislation of Unsecured Loans? and are equipped with a disconcerting amount of personal information about their potential victims.

?Because the scammers have so much information about potential victims, the BBB is concerned that this may be the result of a data breach,? said Steve J. Bernas, president & CEO of the Better Business Bureau serving Chicago and Northern Illinois. ?Thousands of people may have had their personal information compromised, and given the scammers? tactics, it appears that those who have previously used payday loan services could be particularly at risk.?

According to reports received by the BBB and posted online, the scammers accuse the victim of defaulting on a payday loan and claim they are being sued. The phony debt collector threatens that, if the victim doesn?t pay as much as $1,000 immediately via wire or by providing bank account or credit card numbers, he or she will be arrested and extradited to California within the hour to stand trial. The scammers often may have the victim?s Social Security, old bank account numbers or driver?s license numbers as well as home addresses, employer information and even the names of personal friends and professional references.

The BBB offers the following advice to consumers if they receive a suspicious telephone call about an outstanding debt:
* Ask the debt collector to provide official documentation in writing which substantiates the debt.
* Do not provide or confirm any bank account, credit card or other personal information over the phone until you have confirmed the legitimacy of the call.
* Review recent copies of your credit reports to ensure that the alleged debt is not affecting your credit. Consumers can do this for free once every 12 months, and can find more information here: http://www.ftc.gov/freereports
* Under the Federal Trade Commission's Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, debt collectors may not harass, oppress, or abuse any person while attempting to collect a debt.
* A debtor may be contacted between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. only and can be contacted at work unless instructed not to.
* File a complaint with the FTC online if the caller is abusive, uses threats or otherwise violates federal telemarketing laws.
* File a complaint with BBB online at www.bbb.org if you believe a debt collector is trying to scam you.

http://www.thinkglink.com/article/2009/08/06/ ... eading-says-bbb

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-618-5897

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 gobblygook 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, Hopkins Law Office, 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.)

The bottom line is, these are criminals trying to steal your money.

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) 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, lawyers, officers of the court or bankers, or if they threatened you with arrest, be sure to include that information in your report.

2) File a complaint online with The Federal Trade Commission at https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en

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) The caller placed the call under a Texas area code. Even though the caller ID was probably spoofed or they're using VoIP technology to hide the fact that they're really calling from overseas, you should also file a complaint with the Texas Attorney General at http://www.oag.state.tx.us/consumer/complain.shtml

5) File a complaint your state's attorney general, the contact information for whom is at www.naag.org

6) 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.

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
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-858-244-0444
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-954-678-9724
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-610-571-3252
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-310-909-8245

...and, many, MANY more.

threatening phone calls anyone else reporting to better business bureau or police?  They are threatening to sue me and say may god have mercy for what is coming for me.  OH PLEASE  don't let these morons scare you.  I tell them to hold on and put the phone down.

I got calls from these crooks a few months ago.. same MO... knew all my info.. say it was from a defaulted pay day loan.. (i didn't take one out)... they eventually stopped calling.. I filed complaints with the state and the fbi... (there are other complaints out there).

THIS IS A TOTAL FRAUD... they want people to bed and plead to send money via western union... (and people are doing it!!!)

Just avoid the call.. are speak in a another language.. :)
I now answer and make up spanish as I go and they say "DO---YOU----SPEAK---ANY---E-N---GLISH?" and I say uh a no habla engla... No comprendo esse'...  and they hang up... :)

On saturday when they called I cussed them out and told him I was enjoying eating their cow (they are indian)
I was pissed!

yes i have they say i owe them money and i will be sent to cort if i dont pay