up board 2008

 I gotten a call today and I didn't answer it. It comes up on our id as ROSSA.

In order to have your name removed from the list is to listen the VM message that they leave for you. Write down the childs name that they ae calling about. Call 813-744-8074, give them the child's name that was in the VM and then they will update that the phone number needs to be removed.

Someone obviously solicited my # somehow. Message said press #1 bit I Hung up! Getting 2 calls a day from same company/person from different numbers. 813-272-4183 is one of the #'s

It was the office of superintendent of schools with a message from the Major, regarding Gasparilla fest.

That's all fine and well that it's coming from Hillsborough County School systems but they are not leaving msgs. I get those directly from the school they are enrolled in. They should leave messages.

Holy crap! this number has been calling and leaving messages on my cell for almost a year! I do NOT have any kids. I have also had this number for almost 4 years. I tried to look the school up online, but all you get is ANOTHER automated service! Apparently you have to have a child enrolled in the school to have the extension number. That is the only way to get a live person on the line. SO frustrated!

Vickie---Were you able to contact  this school and have them remove your number from their call ist/  I would appreciate if you would let me know the contact person.  I am  81 years of age and have no children in the swywstem and it is aggravating.u9b3

So feed up with being called by this school system. How do I get my phone number removed from said schools calling system. I do not and have never had a child in their school. Maybe the prior owner of my cell phone number did. But am really past this!!!!!

It's usually automated messages from Hillsborough County, Fl. school system.

The mystery caller is solved. My phone rang; I answered. A gentleman from Kenly Elementary.  I was able to ask this gentleman to remove my phone numbers from their auto calling list.
The number to call to have your auto message removed:
813-744-8074
Kenly Elementary School
2909 North 66th Street
Tampa, FL 336-1729

called me and just sat there without saying anything??

I got a callfrom this number and no one said anything

This number called my cell phone and said nothing, then i got the same call on my home phone.... IT IS HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM with their automated info line that goes out to all parents... my guess is sometimes it does not connect correctly...

It is an automated call from Hillsborough County School System, with an auto message to all parents.

i would just ignore it. 1.) i dont live in Hillsborough County and 2.) my daughter is 6 months old

This call is coming from HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY SCHOOLS in Florida = school notification messages are being left on my voice mail.
Call Type: Event Reminders
I do not live in Florida and I cannot contact the school to stop these calls!

this call is coming from Jefferson High School regarding child internention, I don't have any children in High School, and I cannot contact the school to stop this call.

If you are receiving calls from this number (813-272-4183) then it's from the Iris Alert System.  Sometime during a previous school year your contact number was entered into their database so that any "important message" gets sent to you via this system.  It's alright if all of your children are in the same school but if they are in multiple schools you may get dupicate cals.  You will need to contact your school an tell them to take you of their call list if you don't want to receive calls.  Personally I find the messages helpful so I add the number to my contact list and hit the IGNOR button when I get the call to let it go to VM. That way I can listen to it later and again if I miss an important bit.

Hello. This is an automated Call back / Reminder system about different events for parents who are involved with the schools their children are enrolled in. If for any reason you did not silicate these calls... Please call.

813- 272 - 4055

This will get you directly to the person that can have your number removed from the call list. *** Keep in mind these are people from the school board*** Do not get angry with them.... It's most likely there was an error when entering phone number to call people back. Just let them know that you would like for them to stop calling .

Take care.

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY SCHOOLS -- school notifications

It's from Hillsborough County Schools

On Monday,October 19,2009 at 8:31p.m. I received a call from HILLSBORO CNTY,FL. from the phone number 813-272-4183. Whomever it was, was just sitting there not saying anything and after saying hello about five times I hung up and did a reverse look up on White pages.com which gave me this information...(813) 272-4183
This number is a landline based in Tampa Central, FL and is unpublished. Around the Whitfield Estates located in Tampa,FL. I then did a google search with this number and it gave me information to report this number. I really hope this information helps in the investigation and hope that whomever this is be held responsible and accountable for harassment really soon.

The same thing happened to me yesterday. I asked them the name of the company and what it was regarding and Mike the supervisor kept hanging up on me! I was like ok. If you want money from me then you shouln't hang up on me! He refused to mail me anything about the "debt" that I owe and kept saying I was being rude when I told him I was driving and couldn't really be talking. He said it is not my problem you are driving. I would love to find out more about this company

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-714-333-2981

This is just another one of hundreds (and perhaps even thousands) of numbers these overseas payday loan debt collection scammers are calling from:

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-9141:

It's a scam, and all their threats are false and illegal.  The bottom line is, these are criminals trying to steal consumers' money.

Here are a few news reports and government advisories warning consumers about this scam:

ABC News:  http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5621205&page=1
West Virginia Attorney General:  http://www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam.cfm
WTAE TV4, Pittsburgh:  http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/call4action/17285785/detail.html
Florida Commissioner of Consumer Services:  http://www.800helpfla.com/newsletter/2008/092008.html

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 gobbylgook 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, Christian Nicholas & Associates, US Federal Bank, Sonic Bank, Hopkins Law Office, CashNet, 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.)

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 (
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.naag.org

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/1-336-553-3965
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-909-6789
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/1-310-909-8245
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

...and, many, MANY more.

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-858-248-4818#pqP47Cwar9gApUAjL6vNH3A

At LONG last...these scammers are fimally getting the national attention they so richly deserve:

Full release from the Better Business Bureau:

Widespread Harassment from Phony Debt Collectors Raises Concerns of Mass Data Breach, Warns BBB Scammers may have Social Security and bank account numbers, home addresses and employer information

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/articles/News.aspx/UmghNAGYQwANpAjL5OOhYA

threatning and harrassing calls from this number and 817-231-7415..several times a day stating i am being sued for fraud by his co. of which i still can get no name of. i think he is saying acs.....

this number called me. Most 272 numbers are for school utilization. So just call your school back.

How do you get off of this list!? They call literally almost every day of the week, sometimes several times each day. I let it go the first few times, but it's getting quite annoying now having gone for weeks now.

There's no information provided about how to get your number off of this list and I've only found similar complaints online, but still no method to remove my number.

1-813-272-4183

Who do you call to get you phone # off the Automatic Dialer??

That number phoned me and it was from Jefferson High School, so it may just be a number for that school or one utilized for Hillsborough County Schools.