215-359-4053

Left Message said they from Law firm of Proctor And Associate that I was under investigation because I did not pay back a loan and I was writting fake checks, They will submit those paperwork to my company so the company can Fire me on the spot. 215-359-4053.

The exact thing happened to me and they called my job today and said they were sending sheriffs dept to my store and they were calling hr dept of my work. I have already informed them at work before they had chance they also gave a fake warrent number.  I have notified police dept also.

We have had several clients report that they have received calls from this number threatening to have the person arrested for not paying a loan. They try to obtain client's banking information.  When our office calls them back and informs them right from the beginning that we are recording the phone call, they hang up and will not answer any further calls.  This is a SCAM. The caller used the name of Mike Johnson.

Same exact story just happened to me today. Kidman, Proctor, and Associates called this morning HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS DUE TO YELLING AND THREATENING. Same gammut: pay immediately, won't provide info on who they are collecting for, will be arrested, put in jail for up to 6 months with fine of up to $10, 000 in late fees. "Eric Williams," "Elwin Scott," and "Benjamin Gates" from same exact phone number. Number disconnects. The whole same story. Thank you Illinois Law Office, I was just the other side of panicked tears. Thank you so much.

same stories going on as everyone elses.  very funny to hear the scammer panic when i busted him in the scam.  i also let my job know about this.  i have experience with this situation.  i have been a victim of id theft before so i can tell when something is weird.  it is just so much fun to hear the guy so called alvin scott fret about when i point out that his firm is not listed online.  he claims that theyre a private firm that wont show up.  its to a point where im relishing in messing with this clown.

I got the same call this morning. I have reported it to the Federal Trade Commission. Go to https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/ to file a complaint.

Received a message from this number stating similar claims and to reply to the call or have my attorney respond to a John Miller.  The caller had a very heavy Indian accent.  I did not return call.

I got a call today from this number and the same name he gave John Miller and he left a message to my cell phone and he even calling my work . This is not the first time they call .This is really a scam and needs to stop.

I just received a treatening phone call from Proctor & Associates 3 times this morning I hung up the 2nd time he called because he actually said to me you must be out of your freakin mind how rude I was a customer service representative for 40 years for the State of Massachusetts if I said that to anyone they would have fired my a------ He stated he was an attorney name was Gabriel Courtney his bar number was 8335 I am going to report him to the Feds and I think anyone who receives these calls should do the same he is a jerk he also said that he was going to have me arrested today so I said go right ahead and hung up on him the 3rd time.

I received a phone call from these extremely rude and piss poor excuse for scam artists....i shouldn't even give them the title of artists because thats almost a compliment. They were very rude which definitely led me to believe that it was a fake law firm simply because law firms don't normally contact people via telephone but rather send mail. I reported them to the ftc as well as to the bensalem police department (i hope they read this--chuckle). IT IS TOTALLY A SCAM. Basically I sent them to hell because I don't let anyone try to scare me over the phone.  The callers name was Elvin or Sullivan Scott. I seriously doubt that was his name because he sounds like he was calling from some call center in the middle of India somewhere with a heavy accent that was thicker than government cheese.

This company has been calling my home for the past 2 weeks. I get to work have a message on my desk saying I had a phone call from an Alvin Scott. I called them the next day. Of top he had an attitude whn I began to ask questions. I was told I was going to jail,the company was taking the money I owed as a lost,he was going to keep calling my job,and send the sheriff office to my job and then if they couldn't get me there to my home and I said ok he really got mad and Hung up.   These people r scam artist....Dnt fall for it....

Phantom Debt Collectors From India Harass Americans, Demand Money

By BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) , CINDY GALLI and MATTHEW MOSK (@mattmosk)
June 7, 2012

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 was 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.

"If Mr. Patel was just a cog in the wheel he seems to have been a pretty big cog," Leibowitz said. "It is clear that Patel was integrally involved with this scam."

Leibowitz points to thousands of pages of financial and phone records gathered by the FTC and filed as part of a civil case brought against him in the U.S. District Court in Sacramento last month. When FTC lawyers sought to freeze his assets and prevent his business from continuing to operate, Patel responded by invoking his rights against self-incrimination. His lawyer told ABC News he has had to be careful in how he responds to the allegations in civil court "because there is a potential criminal action," but that Patel maintains the allegations against him are false.

Federal investigators said the phantom debt collection operation that allegedly benefitted from Patel's assistance was one of several that all trace back to the same small town in Western India called Ahmedabad. Callers use technology to make it appear that the calls originate inside the U.S. Victims provided ABC News with recordings of dozens of the calls, and many of the thickly accented callers appear to be reading off a script.

"Subpoenas have been readied, and Monday morning you're going to be picked up from your home," one caller says on a victim's voicemail. "And you have children. Don't worry about your children. We have a childcare department to take care of the children."

"You will be behind bars for six months," said another caller. "And once you go behind bars, you will lose your job. Once you are behind the bars, you won't get a single drop of water."

William Peerce Howard, a Tampa attorney who represents victims of harassment from debt collectors, said it takes an especially twisted criminal to use threats and coercion to pry money from someone who is already struggling financially

"These guys really are the most visible villains in America today," he said. "They make a living scaring people."

Mark Merola, of Florida, said he just panicked when the caller told him he might be arrested at the deli where he works in a Florida retirement community.

"I was nervous. I didn't want to embarrass myself, my family," he said. He used his debit card to pay the collector $576.

Afterwards, he says he realized "how stupid I was."

"It just happened so fast," he said. "I got scared."

Leibowitz said he hopes with more attention, future potential targets of the scam will recognize red flags before they turn over any money.

If callers say they are from the police, consumers should know that law enforcement officers do not collect debt for private parties. If the caller is speaking with a thick Indian accent, but calls themselves by a names such as Officer Mike Johnson, that should be a tip off. And if they're calling 40 times in two hours, that's another red flag. "Legitimate debt collectors, legitimate pay day lenders don't do those sorts of things," he said.

Merola said he would like to see anyone involved in the scam prosecuted aggressively.

"There's no place in society for these people," he said.

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Received several calls from this company on cell and at work. Told me he was John miller from proctor law firm and had received a complaint on me and my Ssn.. Stated I would be arrested and my family n friends would be in danger. I have all of this on my voicemail. What is wrong with people?

Read my post. This is a criminal organization operating out of India.

Received call requesting to talk to one of our employees regarding legal matter.

I got an call to my job, talking about some fraudulent checks and purchases made online linking my email address, these people have my social security number & tried to get me to verify personal information, I could barely understand the guy who called because his accent was so thick, I never verified my info so he became upset, and disconnected the call. I don't know what is going on but I do know that this is not the first time I've gotten a call from these people, but because I never verify my personal information and the people who call wont provide me with valid information, it has to be a scam, he tried today to get me to make a payment over the phone with the checking account that was used to make the fake purchases, the only problem is that I am well into my thirties & have NEVER had a checking account. I just think its funny, my job wont fire me over something that cant be verified!!! I just think the desperation of some people is funny.

A person called from a voice changer claiming to be Alvin Scott. He left several messages but my son has my phone alleging that I was under State Investigation and not to think this was a joke that I better call back or the would subopena me and have a warrant issued for my arrest. I thought well I work for the state and if that was so they would have notified me and given me a chance to resign or retire.

The same person called me from this number and threatened me because they had my social security and address and also other personal information which it seem like was sold to them when I applied for a pay day loan. They told me the same as many of the other reports said that I would be arrested etc. I made a FTC complaint, however I wasn't phased by their threats. I was more worried about my social security number and private information being sold when I filled out a application on the site that Montel Williams represent and will be looking into legal actions against that site because they are obviously giving your information to any and everyone.

Same thing happened to me as described above. I hung up and he called back and scream profanity at me. Very disturbing.

I got a call from these people too! They said they were notifying me of a cash advance I supposively accepted a cash advance into my bank account in the amount of 300 dollars. And that I was going to have a warrant for my arrest and that I was to expect court papers and to have my legal call them. The scary thing is they knew my last 4 digits of my social security what city I lived in and who I banked with.... The only thing I acknowledged was my name. I decided to interrogate them I found out this person goes by the name Benjamin Gates. I told him to give me his web address so that I can look him up and got pissed and said he didn't appreciate me asking him for this and hung up. I called back asked for the same information and got gambleproctor.gov...... Not a valid address of course. He then said please await your court documents and have your legal person call us. I said no I am not going to do this and he hung up on me again. I confirmed that I didn't receive a deposit nor is there criminal charges against me. Total HooHaaa of a person..........