347-844-6831

It's a scam!  These guys call you, leave the last four digits of your SSN on your mailbox (a blatant violation of the FDCPA), and then talk about "something bad happen to you".  Did I fail to mention the guy has a really thick accent; although I'm not sure of the origin.  If these people call you, simply hang up and report it

I received a voice mail from this number telling me that my name and social security number were listed on a case that a financial institue was "pressing charges" against me and they wanted to give me a heads up.  Then about 15 minutes later they called my mother asking for my information.  This lady had a VERY THICK ACCENT as well.  I could hardly understand her.  I would check your credit report after this...

Again they call my work and my cell phone one call after another I have repeated calls each minute, 20 times in a row to my cell some days. Today instead of Mike Henry or Mike Anderson a gal called who I can't understand at all but yet I have 3 charges against me. All that jazz again I wish they would give up. I won't call them back. They are scammers and I have told the police and they are harassing me and I don't have to take it. I will have the police return the call and let's see if theycuss at them like they have to me in the past. Enough is enough.

had a man call that i could not understand a word he said  he  had my email address,my last number of security number and my banks name he said i received money over  the internet now they are suing me for not paying it back i never got any money this guy and others has called my phone and my work. they are really getting on my nerves

PROTECT YOURSELF!  IMPORTANT INFORMATION YOU MUST READ – HOW THE SCAM WORKS AND WHAT AGENCIES TO REPORT THEM TO
LONG RUNNING AND KNOWN SCAM – ALL OVER INTERNET AND NEWS FOR ALMOST 2 YEARS NOW

Fake Debt Collectors – Terrorizing Consumers

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


MORE ON FAKE DEBT COLLECTORS
https://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.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2010/01/ks_debt_collection.html   latest release of information on this scam

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 https://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:

https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-925-262-1327
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-678-954-6346
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-341-4004
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-856-831-0640
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-949-743-1140
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-410-505-8128
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-917-464-2534
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-210-858-6602
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-775-2121
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-949-743-1156
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-245-1402
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-245-0922
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-723-5572
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-2863
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-718-831-7157
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-2857
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-858-244-0444
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-954-678-9724
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-610-571-3252
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-310-909-8245
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-310-499-9983
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-771-9249   Scammer posting here as GARY and GARRY JONES
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-866-860-4509   Scammer posting here as Mike Henderson
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-212-500-0839   Scammer posting here as Ricky
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-201-244-7722   Scammer posting as Carole, David Brown and Amanda
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-626-200-4646   Scammer placing false postings at this new number as silshan kanniue and Tina – preparing a new number to use.
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-424-354-4270   Scammer placing false postings as Rose
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-785-4479   Scammer posting as Robert
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-909-327-4870   Scammer placing false postings as Marry
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-646-274-1143   Scammer placing false postings as Karen Miller
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-561-300-8018   Scammer placing false postings as Marco Polo (real original)
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-877-226-7488   Scammer placing false postings as SAM, David S


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.

This phone number has called us and threatened to have the police at our door at any minute.  They got a hold of my husband's work number and was one of the reasons he got fired for calling so much and telling them that he was in trouble with the law and so forth.

Received a long voice mail on our home land line from a woman with a very heavy accent calling from what sounded like a call center. She said she was calling from "ACS" and was looking for  Carla Geddings in the hopes that Carla could help her find Noel Akimoto (later she said Noel AkimAto) because she had "important information" for him.  Clearly a scam. There's no one in our household by those names, not even close.

Interesting thing: she didn't leave a call back number, just blathered on and on until the voice mail stopped recording, so I don't even think she knew she was talking to a machine. Idiot.

I am so tired of these alls.  a lady called this time and said same thing.. pressing charges, need to call now or else and they always end up the conversation with God Bless You!  how dare them... is there any way to stop this?????

Today I received a phone call from this number (646-224-9884).I did not answer the phone because I did not know the number. It was hard to understand what he was saying because of his extra thick indian/middle eastern accent. They left a message informing me that I was being taken to court and needed to contact them imediately. They left the following number (347-844-6831). When I called that number back in order to get details as to why there someone was taking legal action against me. They told me I had took a payday loan out in the amount of $300.00 and never payed it back. I told them I had not and would be reporting this to me police dept because I had some previous fraudulant activity on my banking account. They then told me they would take me to court and hung up. I decide to go to the police dept and on the way called them back. He gave me a different name and asked if I was calling back to resolve the issue. I said I was trying to get it resolved it by contacting the police and have them look in to it. They then told me they would proceed forth with legal action and hung up.

received a call from 236-462-2498 and "Alan Marshall" he called himself said he was from ACS and that I needed to contact him immediately regarding a case against me. The number he left me to call was 347-844-6831. Man with heavy accent. 2nd call I have received this week. I have contacted the FTC, and was given a conformation number, but whether this helps or not who knows. Someone needs to stop these crazy people.

this is really getting silly.  I am tired of all these calls.  I ahve reported them but they still call EVERYDAY at home and work.  How do I make them stop??????????????

Received a call this afternoon on my cell phone (caller ID shows the incoming number as 236-462-2498) from Alan Marshall with ACS. Mr. Marshall said that one of my in-laws had used me on the internet as a reference in a "very serious offense." He wanted me to tell have the family member call him back immediately to resolve the issue. He gave 347-844-6831 as the call back number. I asked where his office was located he asked me to hold for a minute. When he came back to the line he ignored my question and told me I had to give my family member the message immediately. I again asked where he was calling from and, after a pause, he said New York.

They keep harrassing me for money i have never owed

They keep leaving a message at work. They called yesterday and I answered. I could hardly understand her thick accent. She said there is criminal charges about to be filed against me. I told her don't call me anymore at work. She gave me her name 'Mona Parker' and # 3478446831 to call her back. She would not tell me what it was about just criminal charges and Icould barely understand that.

I got a call from a "Justin Walker" at this number yesterday at 6:21 p.m.. He had a foreign accent and it was hard to understand what he was saying. He stated that he had my name and SSN and was calling because my name was on a list for an international criminal case. He stated that I need to call him be for "something bad" may happen to me. This is harrassment and I will not take it!

Received the call 5 times today and obviously it is a fake call.

These guys just don't give up. I called them back a few months ago and stated that I was an attorney and they were in violation of laws and I was going to report them. They gave me a bogus address. For a while they stopped calling- now it's starting again! GRRRRR!!!

some man called and stated that he has my ss # and something about idenity theft and involved in a serious matter.. the number that called me was 347-844-6831.

I woman with a strong indian accent that you can't understand has my ss number and tells me I owe money but cant tell me the name of the company just that I need to give her my credit card number to pay money that owe.  she says she cant send me any information only the court documents that I am being sued.  I believe this is a scam she has also called me a work.

My calls started on 5/20/2010. Not sure how they got my name and number, but will call back to back for 20 minutes straight until I answered and told them to stop harrasing me. Well it started again the very next morning from a different number. they are saying a financial institution is filing suit against me. Some guy with a very thick accent. Barely understand anything he says. Harrassment!!