This guy called my brother and wanted to sue him because of a "loan" he took out. We called our bank and the loan was fake... pretty sure he's a scammer! GET HIM!

Some guy called my number and also said he was going to sue me for a "loan" Nothing showed up on my bank statement.....FAKE!!!!!!!

This person keeps calling my cell phone but I don't know who it is,...

They keep calling and never say anything when I answer.  I am on the do not call list and I even updated it 2 times this year to make sure.

These people are nuts.  They called our office and asked for one of our employees.  They do not speak clear english - they are making threats and
really upsetting her.  I hope that someone will take legal action.  I have advised my employee to go to our local sheriff's department and take action against them.

I got a called from this number as well today, saying I took out a loan in 2008 and they were going to sue me. This is a scam and bu***hit, the lady on the phone does not speak English well and said her name was Missy Ray and gave me a number 410-690-3828 to contact her back at,of course the number does not work. I dont give out any information

Same thing I get calls from 958-084-4768 of course I do not answer but on my voice mail some non speaking english guy that cannot even say my name correctly gives me a number to call back which is the 410-690-3828 number. They also call my elderly mother which is not in good health. I have reported but nothing seems to work.

I'v been getting calls from the same number.He always leaves the same message,that is "you need to call me or your attorney needs to call me TODAY".He's been calling since April 2009. Anyway now I know for sure he is scam man.Now he's pist ME OFF. WE'll catch him or them, and hangem with their own rope.

I'v been getting calls from the same number.He always leaves the same message,that is "you need to call me or your attorney needs to call me TODAY".He's been calling since April 2009. Anyway now I know for sure he is scam man.Now he's pist ME OFF. WE'll catch him or them, and hangem with their own rope.

I am not sure who this number is for and have gotten several calls.  Does anyone know?

yeah they called me too only i answer .... city where i`m at police dept sgt mike jones  (seeing how thats the name he uses) homicide how can i help you then that really screws with them then i say did you have anything to do with this persons death oh wow they freak out call back a few more times i say the same thing i have all the numbers they use .now no more calls  or i have one of hitler`s speeches and play it when i answer. so much fun

I hung up

We need to stop these people!  Please- if you receive a phone call from them, file a complaint with the FBI, FCC, local police, state police, and the Attorney General!  

http://www.ic3.gov   FBI Complaint Center   Be sure to state "Contacted by Extortionist" in the subject line.

www.fcc.gov  FCC on-line complaint form.

I got a called from this number as well today, saying I took out a loan in 2008 and they were going to sue me. This is a scam and b***s***, the lady on the phone does not speak English well and said her name was Missy Ray and gave me a number 410-690-3828 to contact her back at,of course the number does not work. I dont give out any information

Received a phone call this morning. Could not understand a word he was saying! Hung up on him. Then he called back and again starts talking very fast with a thick heavy accent asking if I knew some person girl. I had to keep repeating to him that I did not understand him and that I was not giving him any info!!! Then I hung up the phone, he has not called back yet & if he does he will get no damn answer from me!

I got a call from a jay marshall from cooper law firm saying that they have an open case against me for a payday loan from Allied group back in june 2008. I've taken out payday loans before, but I couldn't remember taking one out with this company.  I asked for the company's phone number and when I called the company she answered the phone as if I had called her house phone and she asked me how I got her number.  Then they said that they deposited money into a checking account but the account didn't belong to me and when I called my bank to confirm that they had actually put money in this account, they told me that the account had been closed since 2006 and there was no way that money could be deposited 2 years after the account had been closed.  I called this cooper law firm back and was told that if I didn't pay the money they would start calling my place of employment and tell them that I have criminal charges pending against me.  I hired an attorney and had him call and they guy who answered the phone changed the compnay's name three different times

Received a call from the 958# today at my place of employment and I couldn't understand alot it sounded very muffled but he says his name is Jeff and he starts saying I owe $ and I told him numerous times to quit calling me and then he starts calling my cell phone # and I hung up on him.  He called serveral times.  This is a scam.......

A called my place of employment and the call went to someone else.  He told them he was an attorney and he need  to speak to me.  He stated that his name was Jeff Scott.  He wanted them track me down because this was really serious.  He finally called my cell number several times.  The message was really bad, but I called back.  The number he gave me as 410-690-3828.  He started telling me that Allied Group needed me to make a statement and that they didn't want to take me to court for bank fraud, they just wanted their money.  He also gave me a series of numbers that he claimed were account numbers and wanted me to verify them.  He was very difficult to understand and talked very fast.  Well, the numbers were not mine and I told him so.  I did not give him any information.  Even the e-mail address that he claimed was mine, was wrong.  I knew it was a scam, but I wanted to research it, so I told him I would call tomorrow.  What I have found so far it that he changes his name often and the name of the law firm he from.  I also looked up the 410 number and it belongs to a private residence.  I am calling him back tomorrow and try to get more information out of him and then I am contacting everyone listed in the post from lamet.

well from the sounds of the messages - this is the FAKE DEBT COLLECTOR SCAM
that is all over the internet and news and has been for some time now.

The formal complaint process is listed below - YOU MUST report them everytime they call as instructed by the West VA Attorney General

Fake Debt Collectors ? Terrorizing Consumers

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5621205&page=1


MORE ON FAKE DEBT COLLECTORS
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-9141
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/call4action/17285785/detail.html
http://www.800helpfla.com/newsletter/2008/092008.html


http://www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam.cfm
Attorney General Darrell McGraw took the extraordinary step today of warning the public about a band of scam artists making threats to consumers who allegedly obtained Internet payday loans in West Virginia and across the nation. The consumers they threaten never obtained a loan at all or paid it off years ago.

Internet payday loans are short-term loans or cash advances, usually for 14 days, made over the Internet via interactive web sites and secured by an agreement authorizing debits of the loan and all fees owed from the consumer?s checking account. These loans typically charge interest rates ranging from 600-800 APR and are unlawful in West Virginia.

The scam artists, who speak English with a foreign accent, call themselves ?U.S. National Bank,? ?Federal Investigation Bureau,? ?United Legal Processing? and numerous other phony names. They refuse to disclose real names and addresses and are believed to be operating ?off the grid? from homes, automobiles, or from off shore locations or foreign countries, including India. Since the scammers have kept themselves purposely well hidden, thus far no law enforcement agencies have succeeded in locating or shutting them down.

The scammers typically pose as law enforcement officers, investigators, lawyers, and bankers and threaten consumers that they will be arrested for ?bank fraud? or other fictitious crimes unless money is wired immediately. They simultaneously scare and confuse consumers by using meaningless legalese gobbledygook phrases such as, ?We are downloading warrants against you? or ?We are filing an affidavit against you.? Consumers who don?t immediately fall for the scam are warned, ?Only God can help you now.?

The scammers almost always call consumers at work several times a day, and tell their supervisors, ?Your employee has committed fraud and is about to be arrested.? Such threats have proven unsettling even to the most savvy consumers and employers who suspect the calls are fraudulent.

Attorney General McGraw stated, ?Ordinarily my office protects consumers from fraudulent activities by seeking injunctions in court. But legal action cannot be taken until the scam artists can be located. Even then, it is unlikely that the persons behind the fraudulent calls and extortionist threats would obey a court order. In this case, the consumer?s best defense is to be armed with the knowledge of the scam so that all demands for money can be resisted, despite the false but scarey threats of arrest.?

McGraw added, ?Because the fraudsters make a special point of calling consumers repeatedly at work, employers must understand that the consumers are innocent victims of a criminal enterprise and cannot stop the calls from coming. I also wish to assure the citizens of West Virginia that my office will continue to do everything possible to locate and shut down the outlaw debt collectors.?

More information about this fraudulent debt collection scheme is available at the Attorney General?s website, www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam. Any consumers who have been threatened by these persons or wish to file a complaint about another consumer matter may do so by calling the Consumer Protection Hot Line, 1-800-368-8808, or by obtaining a complaint form from the Attorney General?s web site.

It's a debt collection scam. And all their threats are false and illegal.
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 gobblygook 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, Hopkins Law Office, 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.)
The bottom line is, these are criminals trying to steal your money.
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 (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.
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.wvago.gov
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/1-925-262-1327
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/1-949-743-1156
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
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-954-678-9724
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-610-571-3252
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-310-909-8245
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-310-499-9983


Scam alert: Bogus debt collectors
By Leslie McFadden ? Bankrate.com
Monday, Aug. 3
Posted 2 p.m.
Bankrate reporter Leslie McFadden contributed this entry.
This scam isn't technically about credit cards, but it is scary enough to post a warning. The Better Business Bureau issued an alert today saying consumers across the country are getting phone calls from bogus debt collectors claiming default on a payday loan. Of course, the consumer needs to pay a large fee to avoid arrest -- as much as $1,000.
The caller poses as a lawyer, and may threaten extradition to face trial if the consumer doesn't pay up immediately.
What makes these calls alarming -- and perhaps convincing -- is that the perpetrators reference the consumer's personal information, such as the person's Social Security number, driver's license number, previous bank account numbers, home address -- even personal references.
"The amount of information they have is really troubling," says BBB spokeswoman Alison Southwick. She adds that the amount of data points to a possible security breach.
Spread the word to your friends and family: Don't give out personal or financial information to an unknown caller. Scammers can spoof Caller ID to display different numbers, so trust your instincts over technology.
The BBB offers these tips:
?    Ask the debt collector to provide official documentation 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.
?    File a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission online if the caller is abusive, uses threats or otherwise violates federal telemarketing laws or the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
?    File a complaint with the Better Business Bureau online if you believe a debt collector is trying to scam you.

Cannot understand what they are saying between bad reception and accent.

CALLS EVERYDAY MAN NAMED "JAY WILSON FROM COOPER LAW FIRM.  HEAVY ACCENT INDIAN  VERY RUDE ASK FOR ATTORNEYS NAME AND WISHES ME LUCK IF I DON;T CALL BACK

I have received a call at work from this so called Law Firm saying that they have open cases on me for The Allied Group.  I know it was a SCAM, because I applied for an on-line loan last year.  I payed it, and just because they have my information they think they can get me to pay money that I do not owe them.  Don't fall for it.  The only advise I will give to you is to never apply for any on-line loans again.  I certainly learned my lesson. I called back the number that they gave me from 410-690-3828 and someone answered "Hello, Can I help You?"  If it was a legit business they would have said their name. DON'T FALL FOR IT!!!

I have received calls from this number at least 5 times a day for the past 30 days. I just do not answer it. They will not quit calling. They said they had my social security number and read it back to me. I called the police and there is nothing I can do. I am not changing my phone number because I've had it a long time. They told me to call 410-690-3828 but I did not. He had a heavy middle eastern accent.

caller did not answer

Caller stated that they was with law firm out of Marlin. They said my step mom owed money for a loan she recieved back in December. The bad thing is they gave a number to call back as 410-690-3828 and to ask for Adam Scott. There was no answer when I called it only promoted me to leave a message.

Recieved called stated that my step-mom had got a lone from some place. They said they was with duncan law in Marlin>

Got 5 calls in a row from this number