I received a threatening message from this number from Jack Hobbs.

Constantly calling my job on a daily basis.  My employer is thinking the matter is worse than what it is and I try to contact them from home and can't get through to them.

my friend received the same threatening messages and they called him at work too he made a police report and hope they get this a**holes

Their calling my work and my phone harrasing me I made police report hope this guy get cough

Their calling my work and my phone harrasing me I made police report hope this guy get cough

I received a warning, harrasment and threatening message from Sherryl acting as a federal agent or in some kind a person with federal authority??? that she is going to sent an investigation officer at my work or residence to come and pick me up to be investigated.  I called back that number but that number 714-408-4570 goes straight to her voice message which is an error message because the mail box is full.  

Same week that another machine guy name Joseph from Frontier Financial Group keeps calling my home phone saying about the check I wrote and I need to call him back to confirm with him about my security information.

they hung up on me.

I received a call from a very Indian accented man whom said his name was Gary Miller. Said this was a very time sensitive matter, threatened to arrest me either at my home or work and he read off both addresses and also my social security number. threatened me with many police like i am a criminal. this is very disheartening. our government and local officials need to work to stop this harrassment of american citizens

I received a call today. The person spoke with a Mid Eastern accent and badly bungled my name.

The person started the conversation off my telling me I was a party in a lawsuit. When I asked who was suing me she stated "OH MY GOD, YOU DO NOT KNOW?" I asked how would I know if you have not told me. She then stated she was transferring my call to a Senior Attorney.

Once she transferred my call, ( by the way , I was not actually transferred, the first person just hit numbers on the telephone keypad, pretending she was transferring the call) once the "alleged" transfer took place this 2nd person spilled out a name which I asked her to repeat numerous times. I finally got the name Kathy Martin out of her and the name of the law firm was Cyber Crime Division. I also requested a company telephone number since the number came up as unknown on my caller id, she told me the contact number was 714-408-4570.

She then asked my name, I told her since the call came from her company she should be quite aware of whom they called. This 2nd person informed me the call was transfered and they did not give a name when they transferred the call over. I asked what kind of Law firm would have employee individuals who would not give a name when they are transferring calls to an attorney?  She asked my name once again and which I refused to supply. so she hung up.

PROTECT YOURSELF!  IMPORTANT INFORMATION YOU MUST READ ? HOW THE SCAM WORKS AND WHAT AGENCIES TO REPORT THEM TO
LONG RUNNING AND KNOWN SCAM ? ALL OVER INTERNET AND NEWS FOR ALMOST 2 YEARS NOW

Fake Debt Collectors ? Terrorizing Consumers

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5621205&page=1


MORE ON FAKE DEBT COLLECTORS
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-9141
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/call4action/17285785/detail.html
http://www.800helpfla.com/newsletter/2008/092008.html

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2010/01/ks_debt_collection.html   latest release of information on this scam

http://www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam.cfm
Attorney General Darrell McGraw took the extraordinary step today of warning the public about a band of scam artists making threats to consumers who allegedly obtained Internet payday loans in West Virginia and across the nation. The consumers they threaten never obtained a loan at all or paid it off years ago.

Internet payday loans are short-term loans or cash advances, usually for 14 days, made over the Internet via interactive web sites and secured by an agreement authorizing debits of the loan and all fees owed from the consumer?s checking account. These loans typically charge interest rates ranging from 600-800 APR and are unlawful in West Virginia.

The scam artists, who speak English with a foreign accent, call themselves ?U.S. National Bank,? ?Federal Investigation Bureau,? ?United Legal Processing? and numerous other phony names. They refuse to disclose real names and addresses and are believed to be operating ?off the grid? from homes, automobiles, or from off shore locations or foreign countries, including India. Since the scammers have kept themselves purposely well hidden, thus far no law enforcement agencies have succeeded in locating or shutting them down.

The scammers typically pose as law enforcement officers, investigators, lawyers, and bankers and threaten consumers that they will be arrested for ?bank fraud? or other fictitious crimes unless money is wired immediately. They simultaneously scare and confuse consumers by using meaningless legalese gobbledygook phrases such as, ?We are downloading warrants against you? or ?We are filing an affidavit against you.? Consumers who don?t immediately fall for the scam are warned, ?Only God can help you now.?

The scammers almost always call consumers at work several times a day, and tell their supervisors, ?Your employee has committed fraud and is about to be arrested.? Such threats have proven unsettling even to the most savvy consumers and employers who suspect the calls are fraudulent.

Attorney General McGraw stated, ?Ordinarily my office protects consumers from fraudulent activities by seeking injunctions in court. But legal action cannot be taken until the scam artists can be located. Even then, it is unlikely that the persons behind the fraudulent calls and extortionist threats would obey a court order. In this case, the consumer?s best defense is to be armed with the knowledge of the scam so that all demands for money can be resisted, despite the false but scarey threats of arrest.?

McGraw added, ?Because the fraudsters make a special point of calling consumers repeatedly at work, employers must understand that the consumers are innocent victims of a criminal enterprise and cannot stop the calls from coming. I also wish to assure the citizens of West Virginia that my office will continue to do everything possible to locate and shut down the outlaw debt collectors.?

More information about this fraudulent debt collection scheme is available at the Attorney General?s website, www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam. Any consumers who have been threatened by these persons or wish to file a complaint about another consumer matter may do so by calling the Consumer Protection Hot Line, 1-800-368-8808, or by obtaining a complaint form from the Attorney General?s web site.

It's a debt collection scam. And all their threats are false and illegal.
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.    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.wvago.gov
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/1-925-262-1327
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
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-310-499-9983
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-771-9249   Scammer posting here as GARY and GARRY JONES
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-866-860-4509   Scammer posting here as Mike Henderson
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-212-500-0839   Scammer posting here as Ricky
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-201-244-7722   Scammer posting as Carole, David Brown and Amanda
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-626-200-4646   Scammer placing false postings at this new number as silshan kanniue and Tina ? preparing a new number to use.
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-424-354-4270   Scammer placing false postings as Rose
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-785-4479   Scammer posting as Robert
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-909-327-4870   Scammer placing false postings as Marry
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-646-274-1143   Scammer placing false postings as Karen Miller
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-561-300-8018   Scammer placing false postings as Marco Polo (real original)
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-877-226-7488   Scammer placing false postings as SAM, David S
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-706-7463   Scammer placing false postings as George

Same exact thing happened to me, he said his name was Jack couldn't make out the last name.

I recieved this call today they said all the things that were mentioned in the other posts, that I would be arrested along with my references and gave my mom's & best friends full name and said we would all three be arrested if I or my atty does not call back immediately and gave me 714-408-4570 to call back. It really freaked me out, I tried calling back it was a non-working number so I was panicking thinking that I have to get in touch with them...then I googled Cyber Crime Unit Law Offices (where the caller said he was calling from) and it was a real site but when I called them they said that its been happening to several people. I reported it thru the right channels but it nearly gave me a heart attack and I would love to see them punished. So far no charges are on my cell but I have no idea if some will show up, not sure what the whole point of the calls were if they aren't charging me money.

I received the same messages but the guy that called me was named "Alex" but the same accent. When i Tried to call back it said there mailbox is full and there was an error. They call my owrk to, I'm tired of this and I'm going to the police on this! It's a SCAM... Don't fall for this. If you do have outstanding payday loan the only thing that can happen is they can send you to collections or take you to court. I called and attorney on this!

Same guys call me saying the same thing but I call the police.and I started harrasing them back by calling a lot of times till call falls throught and couse them out the same way they do to me

GOT 2 CALLED FROM THEM.  tHEY CALLED BLOCKED BOTH TIMES.  SAME STORY.  TOTAL SCAM.  I SIAD I WANTED THIS IN WRITING.  HE HUNG UP.  CALLED BACK AND LEFT A MESSAGE THAT I WAS GOING TO HAVE MANY POLICE AT MY DOOR.  OBVIOUSLY GET INFORMATION FROM A P0AYDAY LOAN APPLICATION.  MOST LIKELY WHEN YOU FILL OUT A GENERIC ONE FROM A THIRD PARTY.  LAUGH IT OFF AFTER YOU REPORT IT.  WITH VONAGE, MAGIC JACK AND OTHERS THEY GET A US AREA CODE AND NUMBER BUT ARE SITTING IN ANOTHER COUNTRY.

my friend received the same threatening messages and they called him at work too he made a police report and hope they get this a***oles

I got a call in the morning saying it was a jack conner and that he was from the cyber crime unit and that i owed a payday loan and if i didnt sent the 1646 dollars within a hour they would send the cops to my house monday morning at eleven am and take me to court also they called my job called the  cops made a report the guy said it was definatly a scam and not to worrly about it all of these numbers are scams i made a message on my voicemal saying i was at the police department makeing a investigainon so when he call again thats what he will hear.

The same thing happened to me. I called the FBI today and I was assured it was a scam. They probably got my info when I applied for a payday loan. The problem is I don't remember the websites I have filled my info on. If anyone can recall a particular website they have entered sensitive information in should list them. Their may be a common one that can pinpoint this fraud.

Just got the same phone call, could barely understand the guy, says I am being charged with 3 cases of cyber crime and the local law enforcement will be at my home tomorrow morning at 11am to arrest me and take me to court.

I am supposed to call them back within 30 minutes at 714-408-4570 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              714-408-4570      end_of_the_skype_highlighting to validate my information so they can send the affidavit papers to me.

Also they called here with a (435)627-5000 number.

I live in Cedar City, Utah.

Looks like they are hitting everywhere they can for this past week.

Did you here from them again

I also received a call from this number. They called my job and left a message on my cell phone. They told my secretary that it was an emergency. I called back and the man that answered said he was form a crime unit with "Quick Cash Net" I was asking what is his name and what was this about... The more questions I asked, the gentleman became upset and said I would be arrested on tomorrow. Does anyone know what this is or is this a scam? The man had an accent and he hung up on me and I called back but he would pick up..

My sister just called me, she is down south and I am in AK. She called me and told me this guy said her SS number they knew her work place, and my name and the name of her friend. They said they were going to send a team of agents to get her and get me and her friend. I was scared for her cuz she's down south. So I told her to call the police. Its scary. how do they get the SS number?

I also received a phone call this morning from the same number from some rude jack*** who claimed I had a pay day loan out which has never happened. They actually called my husbands phone and when he told them to prove it, they hung up on him...I don't know what kind of a stupid scam this is, but they can bite the big one. They also claimed that they had proof, which I know is a load of crap, so I refuse to answer anymore of the phone calls from this number and if they think they are big boy enough to try and arrest me for something that never happened, then all I can say is BRING IT ON lol......wow I needed a good laugh today!!!

hi when u reported it what did the police say about this. is it some fraud company or can it be true please let me know thank you

i just got a call like this today on my cell phone said the same thing to me as he did to u. that is very scarey i would like to no how he got my number and ssn number and name . and does anyone know what we can do about this i dont like it at all thanks

YES! I received a message from them also. They hung up on me 4 times before they started acting CRAZY!! They told me my SS#, Address, Work place and said they were going to arrest me any day because "someone filed a complaint." I laughed and argued with them that you can't arrest someone for that. I have already called my local police and filed a report. Everyone should do this so they can be taken care of ASAP before some poor old person is taken advantage of.

Same guys also called me at work from 714-408-4570 saying that they are taking me to court for a fraud and that I needed to take care of this matter. He had a bad accent, I counldnt understand what he was saying. He said that he also had my social security number. They also said that I will be arrested at work the following morning. What am I suppose to do? Report it?

A man with a middle eastern accent named "Jack Hopes" called saying he's from Cyber Crime Unit and said I had some criminal aligation against me. He gave my social security number and said that if I didn't call back he would send a team of legal service men to get me and my brother and sister whom he named. How did he get this info? This really scares me. What other info does he have about me?

They claim to be a Quickpay/Quickcash legal complaint office...African woman, very rude and called my military office a cursed out my soldiers...DO NOT EXCEPT A CALL FROM THEM AND DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR INFO!!!

they claim to be cyber crime unit. they are all arabic gentleman. very weird and not trustworthy people. please do not give them your telephone number!!!