I just got a call from the above number saying that if I don't pay them a certain amount of money by close of business that they would send the sheriff over to pick me up at my work.  I don't remember ever taking a loan from American Cash.  But the paralegal threated to take me to jail.  the paralegal's name is John Marshell.  the attorney's name is James Williams.  Does anyone have any advice?

i did not have a debt to collect; if you file a complaint for harassing and threatening phone calls the Attorney General's office will repsond.

ditto to what everyone else said; I htink it came about because I canceled a phone scheme for a loansforemergencies.com.
i formally filed a complaint of harassing adn threatening calsl with the Kansas Attorny General's office.  suggest everyone else do the same; the more complaints they get the more likely the practice will be examind.  And thanks for those who did post; that is how I found out above the scam by entering their phone number.

I've been receiving these calls back to back, from different numbers. I told them I never applied for a loan, then they called back & said they were an attorney's office. The last call asked for me, then tried to verify the last 4 of my social. I said no. They read off my social & asked if that was it, I said no. Then they just hung up.And yes, every single one of them had a strong foreign accent.  Another number to add to the FTC complaint. PLEASE do not verify any identifying info to these people! Let's hope this crap ends soon!
BTW the numbers I've had are:
855-420-2625
877-820-0925
unavailable
312-788-9038
620-506-0300
216-278-0121
241-812-1635
785-433-4070
312-788-9038

I received a call from this number, a foreigner from a so-called law firm,  stating they were going to show up and arrest me.  I don't owe anyone anything, so if you get a call from this number, do not worry.....I couldn't understand but every other word of what he was saying.  He could not even pronounce my name correctly!!!!!

This is a criminal extortion scam operating out of India. They are making the calls utilizing VOIP and the names of legitimate firms to make it appear the calls are originating from within the US. There is NO "company" or "debt" and you will NOT be arrested. They are harvesting and/or buying consumers' personal identifying information and you need to do whatever you can to protect yourself. This includes: Notifying the FTC: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/, placing fraud alerts with all three credit bureaus, notifying your bank and employer and letting these criminals know you are aware they are attempting to extort money for a non-existent debt and have alerted the authorities.

Read this investigative report ABC News did on this scam:

Hundreds of thousands of cash-strapped Americans have been targeted by abusive debt collectors operating out of overseas call centers suspected of links to organized crime in India, law enforcement officials told ABC News.

The calls are part of a massive scam, one that appears to target struggling Americans -- especially those who have gone online to apply for payday loans. Armed with personal information from those pilfered applications, the threatening callers, who claim to be debt collectors poised to initiate legal action, have managed to pry loose millions of dollars from their victims -- even when the victims never owed money in the first place.

"This is what we call a phantom debt collection scam," said Jon Leibowitz, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. "It's a very pernicious and innovative new fraud."

Working through call centers in India, the commission estimates that the criminals have dialed at least 2.5 million calls, persuading already cash-strapped victims to send them more than $5 million. Some have reported receiving dozens of calls per hour. They are victims like Cindy Gervais, of New Orleans, who went online for a quick loan when her husband's car was hit by a driver who didn't have insurance.

Even though she paid the loan off, the so-called "phantom" debt collectors with Indian accents began calling to say she still owed money.

"He more or less told me that if I didn't pay, they were going to have someone on my doorstep to arrest me," she told ABC News. "And that they were going to contact my place of business, and tell them what kind of person I am."

At first, she said she resisted. Then the calls became more frequent, and started to ring on her cell phone, and at the grocery distribution company where she had worked for 27 years.

"I was more or less in panic mode because he told me there would be someone before noon at my place of business to arrest me and take me to jail," she said tearfully. "So I agreed to pay him."

After receiving scores of complaints, investigators with the FTC said they began tracking the calls, and following the payments. They alleged the payments led them to a California company run by an Indian-American named Kirit Patel, and that such scams would not be possible without American front men.

"I would say that all roads of this scam, or many of the roads of this scam, lead back to Mr. Patel," said the FTC's Leibowitz.

ABC News tracked Patel for weeks, from the suburbs of San Francisco to Austin, Texas.

Patel refused to talk. But his lawyer, Mark Ellis, said he believes it is far too early to pass judgment on his client. Ellis, a Sacramento-based attorney, told ABC News that Patel was hired for a nominal fee to set up an American shell company, and had no idea what the call centers in India were doing.

"I can tell you, he was as snookered by the people in India as anybody," Ellis said. "He's a 69-year-old man who is nearing his retirement who thought all he had to do was set up some corporations and everything was on the up and up. He's completely dismayed that he has become the lightning rod of this entire problem."

A close friend of Patel's also defended him in a brief interview at his home, saying Patel was not trying to defraud anyone -- he was just an unwitting, bit player in a larger scheme.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/phantom-debt-co ... ory?id=16512428

The phone number is 785-448-1641 non emergency Garnett KS police dept they bed more reports the FBI is looking into it but the more calls and pressure put on the local cops they will be nailed for this plz help this is stealing the cops say its willing but for someone's loved ones to get the call threading to arrest their senificant other some will do anything like my mom and she paid the 500 and they blocked us no contact plz help stop this from happening to others Italy be 2 late for the money but not to late to save other athe time and money and agrevation from these people

The FBI I reported to them and anyone with a call from this # needs to call this phone number it's non emergency number for police in ks they will do something if enough ppl bug them about it they told my mom I was going to jail and she sent them 500$ and no way to get it back if u know the dudes real name or the company in my opinion I hope they all get shot and their bodies burned and the building

Please do file reports with the FBI, your state attorney general and Department Of Justice,CFB,FTC & FCC..

http://www.nw3c.org/
http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx
http://www.fbi.gov/
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/#&panel1-1
https://esupport.fcc.gov/ccmsforms/form1088.action
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/

Also read up on the laws and your rights:

http://800notes.com/arts/Jb8EW-eDhQA/harassin ... ou-need-to-know
See Residents post here also:
http://800notes.com/forum/ta-34af6a034ba34b6/unending-collection-calls
Templates of Letters:
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-319-242-7350

http://www.ftc.gov/os/statutes/fdcpajump.shtm
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/askcfpb/search ...
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/pdf-0096-fair-credit-reporting-act.pdf
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0149-debt-collection

And see:
http://800notes.com/forum/ta-944ec1426a8bcbb/ ... service-attacks
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http://800notes.com/forum/ta-86217073a9c8dad/ ... 077595690349410
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http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0258-fake-debt-collectors
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http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/pubs/pressreleases/extortion_scam.htm
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http://www.fdcpa.me/fake-process-server-injunction/
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http://800notes.com/forum/ta-9413b3202bc8b6c/ ... net%27s-tactics
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http://dfi.wa.gov/consumers/alerts/cashnet-payday.htm
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http://www.cashnetusa.com/consumer-notices
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http://800notes.com/forum/ta-4f7d326029dcf9d/ ... lectors-finally
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Extortion Scam Related to Delinquent Payday Loans

Washington, D.C.
December 07, 2010  FBI National Press Office
(202) 324-3691

? filed under: Press Release

The Internet Crime Complaint Center has received many complaints from victims of payday loan telephone collection scams. Callers claim the victim is delinquent in a payday loan and must repay the loan to avoid legal consequences. The callers purport to be representatives of the FBI, Federal Legislative Department, various law firms, or other legitimate-sounding agencies. They claim to be collecting debts for companies such as United Cash Advance, U.S. Cash Advance, U.S. Cash Net, and other Internet check-cashing services.

According to complaints received from the public, the callers have accurate data about victims, including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses, employer information, bank account numbers, and the names and telephone numbers of relatives and friends. How the fraudsters obtained the personal information varies, but in some cases victims have reported they completed online applications for other loans or credit cards before the calls started.

The fraudsters relentlessly call the victim?s home, cell phone, and place of employment. They refuse to provide any details about the alleged payday loans and become abusive when questioned. The callers have threatened victims with legal actions, arrests, and, in some cases, physical violence if they do not pay. In many cases, the callers harass victims? relatives, friends, and employers.

This guy kept calling saying I was going to be arrested for a faulty loan. I asked to have him send something in writing.  He said "FINE:"... you will be arrested and spend 30 days in jail and he stated he would call my employer and have me arrested there.  Calls from Garnett, KS  Nickerson, KS came up on the phone.

I'd be more impressed with this scheme if they had chosen someone who could speak at last passable English. Spewed on and on about a law firm this or that. I told him to keep calling so I'd have better records for my FTC complaint against them. He didn't much like that.

They called my work and said they was going to arrest me for a loan I know nothing about

so i got a call from this fake law firm saying i was going to get arrested for not paying a loan total crap i acted like i was going to the store and sending the money gave him fake numbers called back like 5 times and got many different people not to mention i have never got a loan from cash america finally talked to a different person and told him i knew they were a acam he got angry hung up and blocked my number

This guy is an IDIOT he has an accent thicker than tar but his name is Bryan Maxwell, well you no what Bryan Maxwell you stupid mother f****r I will meet you at Vacville P.D an I will beat your a** in the parking lot you son of a bi***!!!

I just received the same call. I was freaked until I started asking questions about the caller ID reading Amanda Bowen and he kept skirting the question. He gave me the name of Heffman or Huffman Law Firm. What a jerk!

Ok So I just received the same disrespectful message.  Don't they know by now consumers are aware of these scams. My message said the second you receive this message I need you or your attorney to call back or I will be arrested.  Let me see you try it I told him.  He start cursing at me I hung up he kept calling I simply blocked all the calls. you cant be arrested they cannot...actually, they are the ones that are breaking the law, not you. The attorney general's office and the police/sheriff's offices do not get involved in collecting private debts for collection agencies. Debt is a civil, not criminal matter in the USA. You cannot be arrested or go to jail over defaulting on a debt.
- Payday loan debt collectors are well known for being brutal when it comes to collection tactics and it's very common for them to use illegal scare tactics, like implying that there will be an arrest warrant issued if you don't give them your bank account or debit card #s.
- Never pay any collection agency with a prepaid debit card. It leaves no paper trial of a payment. If you can't pay then you can't pay. There is no point in engaging a debt collector who uses illegal tactics like this in an argument. Just tell them you don't have the money and hang up.
Settle the debts for less when you have the funds. How to pay collection accounts: http://goo.gl/RTyWw

This guy " Officer Sean Andrews" called my work and told my boss that I need to get in touch with him immediately or he will be coming to arrest me. I would love to find this guy in a dark alley and beat the piss out of him.

Received a call from this number on my home phone just a minute ago.  This is how the message came up on my voice-mail:
?Hi this message is intended for Debra Taylor. Debra the very second you receive this message I need you or your attorney off records to return the call. The issue at hand is time sensitive. My name is Henry Smith and hotline to my division is 7854334070. I repeat again 7854334070. Don't disregard this message. Do return the call now. If you don't return the call or I don't hear from your attorney either you're looking(?) I can do is wish you the job-asked(?) the situation unfolds on you.?

What is interesting to me is that the caller ID says "Amanda Bowen" in Kansas.    I have been receiving several of these types of calls over the past few days.  In fact, one came in from "Henry Smith" on my cell just as I was typing this.

Same as above.  Said i applied for and received a payday loan from American payday(??) and never paid it back.  Wanted my atty number so i gave him the # he just called ;).  He called back and i told him i was my own atty and asked what it was about.  He said i could discuss it in court and that i would be arrested.  Bogus.  If u get them mad, they start dropping the f-bomb.  Real professional for a "law" firm.

bogus law firm. They are telling people that you owe $$ from a federal loan you took out and or co-signed. They threaten to ave you arrested by that evening if you don't pay. Totally bogus...do not worry:)