I have been getting these types of calls for years now. I unfortunately got involved with payday loans and I think that one of them sold my info. I have never been arrested. It is a full scam. They use the scare tactic to get money and added info out of you. This is one of the reasons I do not give out my home number and I screen my calls on my cell.

You can't trust the Called-ID information.  Both the Caller-ID name and the Caller-ID number can be spoofed (i.e., faked).

Just received a call from these creeps and had me nervous until I googled the number and seen the responses. They wanted me to pay them $1000. Even called me from a police station number and when I called the station back they had no idea of what I was talking about. These people are sick.

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

I just got the same call with different names!! They had all my information also!  Isn't this illegal?

I had received a call from a David Luis  stating that he wants me to call a George  belowski he said I need to call him at 916-224-1389 or call him back at 916-244-1388 if I can't get a hold of George. But this George called me at work were I use to work at and they gave them my number at work now. I e mailed the manager there and told her that they should not be giving ourt my work number. Mr. Luis. Said he understood what I meant. But I am not going to call them back. I have been scammed before and will nor be scammed again. But he didi state that he was calling from a state attorney office too. What ever you do foks don't fall for it. All last year I never received any calls like this and now they are calling? Don't fall for it and don't let them get to you like that. A friend of mine said if they call again say this to them" that you called Kampala Harris who is the California attorney general office and that you are working to fill a complaint on them.and they are recording your call" try that. I bet they won't call you anymore? Let's hope that works? Or when they do call again just block the call. Good luck. And god bless you all. Hope this helps put your mind at ease! Jojo

PERSON CLAIM I AM IN A LAWSUIT AND MUST CALL BACK, THEY EVEN READ MY SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.

I received the same phone call yesterday.. scared me .....I cant believe people can be so cruel.....im sorry that it happened to your mother but relieved when i read your post...i truely believed i was going to jail...they told me i had 1 hour to get the money or they would send police to my house and arrest me.....these people need to be stopped.....

My mother was contacted by this number on several different occasions. She called me totally worried this morning, convinced that she was going to be arrested today. She said she spoke to a man named George Belowski and another woman who was very aggressive with her on the phone. My mother told the woman she thought maybe it was just a scam and the woman flipped out on her, told her to expect to be arrested within the hour and that she was just there to try and help but since she thinks it's a scam there is nothing they can do then hung up on her. My mother called back a while later and the same woman answered, told my mother, "Didn't you just call? Didn't you say this was just a scam?" then just reiterated the same BS.

Thank you for posting your experiences with these disgusting people. I hope each one of these EVIL scumbags get their's tenfold. They will! KARMA!