Threatened my LIFE. If I don't pay an outstanding bill

Be aware, he is calling and giving me a different ph # now.  now he is saying my lawsuit has been filed with local authorities and that i can contact him at 646.578.8788.  Google that # and you come up with the same postings that you are seeing here.

received a call from detective steven alexander indicating that there have been legal charges pressed against me for a pay day loan I took out and did not repay, which never happened!!  He was demanding that i fax over authorization for him to debit my checking account for $485.00 to stop them from taking this matter to the local authorities and from going to court or jail.  this man new my ss#, by bank name and acct. #, and 2 of my personal references, as well as my address. So, I googled the ph # he gave me to return his call, and look what comes up!!!  All these people that are being scammed.  Needless to say, I've reported him not only to local authorities, but to the FTC, the FBI and secret service.  Please be aware of this scamm and never send anyone any money no matter how demanding they are!!!

I just got a message from officer steven alexander trying to get me to fax over my bank statements to prove that I didn't owe this company money. He had an indian accent and was very rube. I swear I wanted to punch him. Ugg what gives people the right to try and take what you work hard for everyday. Something needs to be done. Get money from your own f****ng people. So mad right now

They cliamed to be a federl officer wanting money and very theratning

A MAN CALLING HIMSELF 'STEVEN AUSTIN' WITH THE FRAUD, FBI, OR WHATEVER. STATING THAT I WAS GOING TO COURT OVER MONEY THAT I BORROWED FROM USA FAST CASH & NEVER REPAYED. I DID NOT EVER BORROW MONEY FROM USA FAST CASH. THIS NUMBER COMES UP AS A LAND LINE IN AKRON NEW YORK. I AM CONTACTING THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND THE FEDERAL TRADES COMMISSION CONCERNING THIS ISSUE. THE MAN HAD A FOREIGN ACCENT AND WAS VERY RUDE.

Good advice. It's a notorious debt collection scam.

The main 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) 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 earlier in this thread notes that 323-319-5373 is associated with an India-based "outsourcing" telephone bank.  Though a reverse search on WhitePages.com shows that 323-319-5373 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.


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 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:

I got a message from the same number, saying his name was Alexander in a middle eastern accent. I called him back just to let him know how fishy it all was, and that the person they asked for didn't even live at my residence. I want to report them somehow.

I got a call from this man with a very strong accent saying he was with the FBI and that I owed money for fraud of some sort. So I called the FBI and they stated this was a scam and then I had to call the social security office because this man had the last 4 digits of my social and then I called all 3 credit beaures is case he is trying to commet fraud.

I got ANOTHER call from this number, rejected it, then got a text telling me to call!!!  They will NOT stop!!  This is truly harassment!  I'm very sure they're bogus, and after reading some of the comments here (except for the one from Alexander, who probably works for them, he also categorizes this call as a "political call"), I KNOW they're bogus!  But, I do love that the guy who has left messages for me, speaking with an accent almost too heavy to understand, calls himself officer !  What a hoot!!!

I've gotten a few calls from this number.  A man with an EXTREMELY heavy accent who calls himself "FBI OFFICER" says that my husband has committed fraudulent activities, and that I need to contact them immediately to work things out.  His accent is so heavy I can barely understand what he's saying.  I can't make out what company he says he's calling from!!  It's a local area code, so I wonder exactly where he's calling from.  What a bunch of scammers!!!!

They keep calling my work, do not owe them money was told it had something to do with online payday loans, which I do not owe. I asked what company I owed he said it was different sub-companies and I would never be able to track them down. I asked how will he be able to pay them if they are untraceable? He  threaten me with jail time etc..said I need to send him $3000.00 asap. I said come arrest me (which is not legal you can not get arrested for debt. Anyone know how to stop the calls? I have filed a complaint with the FTC, the more people who file a complaint the sooner we can get them stopped. They are of Mideastern ethnicity have very bad accent with names like Kevin Smith , Officer Sean Williams etc.. DO NOT SEND THEM MONEY!

I recieved several threatening calls from them. I called the F.B.I. and told them that a supposed F.B.I. Agent was calling me to collect a debt. They used the names Alexander. I reported them to the F.T.C. and alerted the my local Attorney General. This supposed F.B.I. Agent, Alexander wanted me to pay an alleged pay day loan that I had signed for electronically through my email. They had my bank account number, ip address, home address, SS#, D.O.B., and my famlies numbers and personal information as well. I asked them for their business license but they would not provide one. They would not allow me to send a money order to pay, they wanted $321.00 right now from my debit card or they were going to take me to court and I would have to pay over $1,000.00. I took all the steps to protect my idenity. Then me and a bunch of my friends called them and harrassed them. We told them they needed to pay us for a debt they inquired through "Credit One U.S.A.", as they had said to me previously, and harrassed them to the point they changed their cell phone number. What kind of an F.B.I. Agent calls with a Hindi accent, that hardly speaks proper english, and uses a cell phone and scare tatics? We asked if they were terrorists or if they just assumed we were stupid Americans that would give our credit  card information over the phone to settle a debt. Beware of morons that acquired your SS# and other personal information. The good news is, when you put out a fraud alert on your credit report,  you get a free credit report.