Keeps calling me repeatly leaving no message. I googled the number to see what came up. I do not answer if I don't reconigze the number. I found this page and thought I should report it.

Felony Charges Against Debt Collection Company that Targeted Consumers

Felony Charges Against Debt Collection Company that Targeted Consumers
November 12, 2013

BUFFALO, NY (WKBW/RELEASE) - Attorney General Eric T Schneiderman announced the potential filing of felony charges against the owner of a debt collection company that targeted consumers and harassed consumers and their families with threats of arrest and criminal investigation.

The investigation led to the filing of criminal charges against Gregory Cipressi of Unified Portfolio Servicing in Cheektowaga, owner and operator of Unified Portfolio Servicing, LLC,  UPS, LLC, Unified PS Group, LLC all debt collection companies based in the Buffalo area. In addition to the criminal charges, the Attorney General has also filed a civil lawsuit seeking to shut down Cipressi's operation and secure restitution, penalties, and costs. The action is the latest in Attorney General Schneiderman ongoing probe of illegal practices in the debt collection industry.

The investigation found that Cipressi specifically targeted consumers, referring to their alleged debts as ?special accounts.? Cipressi instructed employees to threaten criminal investigations and threats of arrest with warrants. Employees were identifying themselves as investigators. Cipressi further instructed employees to inflate the balances owing on payday loans by thousands of dollars, both of which are illegal debt collection tactics.

According to several former employees, Cipressi instructed his employees to threaten criminal prosecution in order compel them to pay. In addition, the investigation uncovered that Cipressi's employees falsely told consumers or their families that they worked for the County Courts and illegally demanded immediate payment. Employees allegedly said that if payment was not made immediately, the consumer would be arrested by the police and would face a criminal charge for an NSF check.

?This individual is accused of operating his businesses in a lawless fashion, instructing his collectors to do anything necessary to collect on an alleged debt, even if it meant harassing and threatening consumers and their families,? said Attorney General Schneiderman.

?We will continue to investigate debt collectors who try to take advantage of unsuspecting individuals facing hard economic times and we will bring them to justice.?

Among the allegations detailed in Attorney General Schneiderman's court papers, Cipressi and his collectors:

? Falsely claimed to be lawyers, investigators, detectives, and
mediators
? Threatened consumers with arrest, jail, and lawsuits
? Threatened to seize the assets of consumers
? Inflated the amount allegedly owed
? Attempted to collect debts from consumers not knowing if the
consumer actually owed the debt
? Targeted family members of consumers, wrongfully disclosing the
existence of alleged debts to family members, and attempted to collect
the alleged debts from family members
? Harassed consumers through repeated and constant calls, using
abusive language
? Levied unauthorized charges on the credit card accounts of
consumers

The civil case against Gregory Cipressi and Unified Portfolio Servicing is being handled by Assistant Attorney General James Morrissey and Senior Consumer Fraud Representative Karen Davis under the supervision of Deputy Attorney General for Regional Affairs J. David Sampson. The criminal case is being handled by Assistant Attorney General Paul McCarthy under the supervision of Deputy Bureau Chief Richard Ernst and Bureau Chief Gail Heatherly of the Criminal Prosecutions Bureau.

This person called me and said he was gonna prosecute me and have me picked up. He said he'd have the Sheriff come arrest me for a bad check and then he called me a cracker.

Called and voicemail was full so no message could be left. I called back only to be hung up on and then called back again and was sent to some weird voicemail. Total scam!

A gentleman named Matt K he wanted to speak to my supervisor cause they were going to send a Sheriff to arrest me for a Payday Loan towards my bank and wanted to know the protocol to arrest me at my place of business I told him he was harassing me at work to send the police we have an attorney here at work. I hung up cause he was being a rude a**. Then he called back was a real a** i put him on hold so he could speak to my supervisor and he hung up. A***ole  

Have called 2 times. I didn't answer and they don't leave a message. I am not sure how to stop the calls, but it has only been  today so far.

This man named derrick jones keep calling my mom saying she owe some payday loan place that i know for a fact that dont exist... he calls from 917-829-8668... its always the same voice answers wen we call bakk he just calls himself different names.. i have decided im calling the police for harrassment... he calls my mom job and cellphone 24/7...

PAUL NIXON RESIDES IN INDIA.

Got a call from a Donald Griffin...Has a very strong Indian accent with an English surname...Very rude and abrupt, threatening to call my employer, references and the credit bureaus ... all for $300 I owe alegedily... Put these con-artist away....

Adam Ryan is very rude and he works with Paul Nixon.  They reside in Indian and use Magic Jack telephones.  This is a scam and I have reported them to the FTC.  Also, Paul Nixon will forward your information to his friends that are conducting the Government Grant Scams.  You will eventually receive a call from Officer Williams whom also has a heavy accent.  Officer Williams will inform you that you are eligible for $6,000 only if you send him $200.00.

Oh, the funny part.  When he figured out he was calling a hospital, he called and asked for me and said that "Dr. Harry"  was calling...LOL

I received a call on my cell phone from them yesterday.  I was at work and had the sound off so I didn't get it.  They then began calling at work.  It was a man with a heavy accent calling himself "Harry". When one of my coworkers answered, he asked if she was me, and when she said no, he called her a liar. He kept calling back and blocking all the incoming lines.  I work at a hospital.  This was putting our patients at risk because no one could call in or out because he kept calling. We started forwarding the calls to security and he would hang up on them.  They finally had to get the systems people to block the calls.

I am getting the same call claiming that they will threaten my job. I work for a debt collection company and know the laws.these people need to be reported.

I have just received a call from these people (Mark Lenbersome Legal Department Investigation bureau FBI) ?????? The person had an accent, Spanish or Indian accent I guess? They keep asking me about my friend who wanted to get a loan.

Can anyone please share the website they used to get a loan, because these people just a bunch of criminals who have access to your private info.

This is a recurring incident, they have actually left a SS# on my cell phone. The bad part of it is, my cell does not list my name this could have been anyones SS# it was mine. Personally I know I have not taken loans from this organization and never would for this matter. The dunning has become very harrassing, threatening to my job and others that work for me. A young lady that works with me has just recieved the same call. Same treatment and the same type of bullyish behavior from what was to be a supervisor. First Derrick Jones, then a call back to them and get Adam Ryan, who is the same person just acting as though someone else. Obnoxious,rude with tude. And if he ever calls back to my place of employ and tell me that he is going "FU** my mother" and I am a "Mother FU**er" I dont know exactly what I would do short of calling HSA and letting them know that he is giving Terroristic threats due the fact the stated in one conversation that he had my address and was going to" blow my "Fu**ing house up" with me in it. If I did not pay them. This has gone on long enough... We are through! HSA and FBI here I come! Signed, ETex

It's a scam! They stopped calling me right when I said, "well I'm not paying anything unless I see documents in my face so I'll see you in court then." I think this just started happening last week. Did that officer sound like a bollywood actor? lol

To begin, I was authorized to conduct an evaluation about Pay Day $1500.00 Cash Loans.  After I submitted my application for $1500.00 cash, my email account was flooded with approval from all over the world.  I deleted 30 to 100 approval on the hour!  Before the next hour, it was that amount plus more, each an every day.  Today, after I had to unsubscribed, I as still receiving approved for different amounts, like $400.00, $500.00, $700.00, $1000.00 and $1,500.00.  I walked outside to pick up my mail, there is PriorityAdvance approved for $1,000.00.  Now, a man is verbalizing harassing me about a legal matter that I have no clue about. I applied approximately on September 6, 2011.  I did not accept any of their offers.  Their offer require that you pay back almost triple the amount that you would received.  In addition, you have to pay to have the account opened.  RESULTS:  not rccommended!

These people keep calling me and claiming to be from different cash advance places, they all have an accent from india and all claim the same thing(that i owe them money). unfortunately they cant get their amounts right since they same person qouted me different amounts within 5 minutes of each call... IDIOTS! Anyway they did have my personal info and the only place i've put any of that down was at annualcreditreport.com...... interesting isn't it..... As you would expect I contacted the FBI and was informed it's just a scam.

i recieved a call from this number at my place of employment.  supposedly from a pat wilson, yet when i called back i was told no it was ted wilson.  supposedly these a**les are from a law firm in houston texas, and work for a richard hendershot(yeah right)  well anyways, when i started questioning them about when i supposedly took out this loan, it was like they picked a date out of thin air.  they started telling me about myself, address and ssn, i never once said any info was right.  then i told them i needed all document numbers, and the case number for my attorney, and that i needed all information sent to my address so i could have my lawyer look it over.  they rudely hung up on me.  guess they didnt like the fact that i had the audacity to actually speak to a lawyer before calling them back.

I got a phone call from this number sayin I got a loan for 700 or 800 dollars and that I now owned 680 and if i didnt pay that they were taking me to court and it was going to cost me bout 4500. and said they were with Bureau Criminal investigation Office of Flordia a police officer wit a id badge#101694 and his name is Joesph Garner

I reported them to FTC because they had my personal info. Stupid a-holes!

Same thing just happened to me and then they said they were going to arrest my husband, when we never did anything.

Got a call from my work today from 888-407-7872.  I thought it was a business matter and some slumdog millionaire was stating that I owed $300.00 from a cash loan department called United Cash Net. I did do advance cash loans to 2 different companies but not this one. I reported this incident to both companies and they stated that this is definitely a scam and to not pay them. They had all of my personal information which is bogus.  When I tried telling them that I did not owe anything, they said that they're going to get a sheriff to serve me with a subpoena. I work at a law firm, and that is not the way it works. You have to file a complaint, serve the the defendant, get a judgment, issue a writ, etc. There is much more work to this if you have a delinquent account. Come on d*ckheads! Oh and when I was explaining to the slumdog about how I checked my bank records and credit reports, he started laughing at my face and then that was when I told him to just send me the documents and to send me to court because I really don't give two cents about this s***. Also, when I asked him what court they filed this matter in, he said, "The State High Court of California". UMMM *crickets* Never heard of that because it doesn't exist in California.

8884077872 is a scam process which is illegal to do business in new york state, where any financial transactions are not allowed to charge more than 25% per year by law!!!!!!  this includes surcharges,taxes,processing fees,etc.

a person named ted wilson called my mother and told her to tell me to call them because i was in trouble . so i called the number and they  said that i had a debt with us cash to them that i have never delt with an agency called that they told me it might be one of their sub companies they couldn't give me the date they i got the money. after getting off the phone with them they continued to call me and my mother for days after that finally i got fed up and answered and scream in the phone they called back about three more times after that when i did answer the man asked me why i hung up on him so i told him i was gonna call the fbi, i don't know if that is going to work. yes there calls are unimportat and i should just ignore it , but if an important or emergency call would go through i wouldn't know it because they keep tying up the line

We are a business and are getting these calls. The caller insists that the person they are looking for is an employee and threatens us when we tell them there is no one here by that name.
They threaten that this person is going to jail and we will go to jail too for interfering with an investigation.   We have been getting these calls several times over the last 4 months, lookig for different people who owe money.   As we are a business sometimes we give our own name and then we are called back and threaten we owe money. Always looking for money and sometimes quite vile.  Today I said the person they were looking for would be back in the morning,  The man spoke with a heavy accent and said he was Ray Fleck. He was from BCI - Bureau of Criminal Investigation looking for Bonnie Simpson.

This message is in Town so Joe draft with Tara this is Jack dawson calling from the legal department the reason behind my call is to inform you that day so legal Case file's down tell me I guess social security nablus the state investigation well I found discuss out I can go or what the slides for the Box so I need you to give me a call in a couple of hours my callback number because 188840 phalen down a Allen to type again 91888407 sound a sound too want to make sure that you know we have golf on my ... Alison I ... stock my legal policies again see if you will be in the city ... man this is Jack diversity in problem number to reach me is 188840 sounds Allen 8 sounds to gold thanks and help desk thanks take care

I actually got the same kind of call,but this guy said his name was Derrick Jones. Finally I told him my phone records where recorded and our legal team would be sending this to the police department.  Then he said Oh I will remove this number from our system....

THE US CASH ADVANCE IS THE PLACE THAT THE SUPPOSID ATTORNEY FROM THE SAME # CALLED ME FROM SAYING I OWED THEM $$$ OR THEY WERE GOING TO THE POLICE!!!!!

I GOT A CALL FROM THIS # NUMBER AND A MR. THOMPSON LEAVING A MESSAGE ON MY VMAIL ABOUT NEEDING THE NAME OF MY ATTORNEY THAT I TOOK OUT A LOAN IN 2010 (WHICH I DID NOT) AND DID NOT PAY BACK FROM SOME CASH ADVANCE PLACE. THEY SAID IT WAS FROM  A LAW FIRM AND THEY WERE GOING TO GO TO THE POLICE. WHEN I CALLED THE # NUMBER BACK ANOTHER MAN WITH A MIDDLE EASTERN ACCENT ANSWERED SAID HIS "SUPERVISOR CALLED" AND IT WAS REGARDING THE LOAN I OWED $ FOR. ALTHO HIS "SUPERVISOR" WOULD NOT GET ON THE PHONE AND THEY JUST KEPT SAYING I TOOK OUT $ AND I OWED FOR IT THAT THEY WERE FROM MORRIS LAW FIRM BUT HE WAS NOT AN ATTORNEY AND THEY WOULD GO TO THE POLICE FOR $ I OWED. WHEN I STARTED ASKING ABOUT THIS SUPPOSID LOAN I TOOK OUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO. HE GAVE ME SOME BOGUS CASE#. I TOLD HIM I NEEDED THE INFORMATION OF WHERE THESE COMPLAINTS WERE COMING FROM AS WELL AS THE INFO REGARDING THE LOAN. IT WAS SCARY BECAUSE THEY DID HAVE MY SSN BUT THEY DID NOT HAVE ANY OF MY CURRENT INFO. BUT HE QUICKLY GOT OFF THE PHONE WHEN I SAID THAT I NEEDED TO HAVE THIS FAKE LOAN INVESTIGATED AND IF THEY WANTED TO CALL THE POLICE THEN CALL THEM.
THE SAME PEOPLE AND SUPPOSID LAW FIRM CALLED MY BOYFRIEND SAYING THE SAME THING TO THEM. THEY ALSO SAID THEY ARE LOCATED IN SARASOTA FL. BUT WHEN I GOOGLED THE # THEY ARE NOT EVEN IN FL!!!!!!!! THEY ARE RUDE SCAM ARTISTS TRYING TO SCARE AND BULLY PEOPLE OUT OF $$$$!!!