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I want to thank you for all your valuable information as I just received a call at my job stating the exact same thing. I called back and asked for the name of the company and Dean Jones asked me to verify my ssn which I refused. I also proceeded to tell him that in the state of PA you must be licensed to provide loans and these people are not licensed. He then said oh I will make sure you case is downloaded. I have contacted the fbi, dept of banking and my atty general.

It's a scam, of course. This same group of foreign scammers call from offshore under many numbers, such as this one: http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-925-262-1327

Their hilariously clumsy attempts at concocting legalistic-sounding phrases such "downloading warrants" and identifying themselves as a "legal professor" is typical of these incompetent foreign bandits.

Debt collectors -- let alone criminals posing as debt collectors -- have no authority to have anyone arrested for anything. So if these foreigners call you again and demand that you pay them money, laugh in their face, hang up and report their calls to your local police, your state's attorney general ( www.naag.org ) and the FBI at http://tips.fbi.gov

And remember -- whenever someone calls you and demands that you pay them money to prevent yourself from being arrested or prosecuted, it is ALWAYS a scam. Always.  So turn the tables on these criminals and report them to the law enforcement agencies that I listed above.

Good luck!

It's a scam, of course; they're just thieves trying to steal your money. There is no US National Bank, and even if there were such a bank, banks don't have the power to charge people with crimes in the United States (that's the job of prosecutors, grand juries and attorneys general.) These morons think private businesses in the U.S. can issue arrest warrants and charge people with crimes because they're foreigners calling from overseas and have no idea what the law is here.  Their ludicrous attempts at using meaningless phrases like "downloading warrants" would be funny if it weren't for the fact that they are trying to steal your money.

Just remember this: no debt collector (let alone criminals pretending to be debt collectors) has the authority to have anyone arrested for anything. Also, it is ALWAYS a scam whenever someone calls you and demands that you pay them money to prevent your arrest.

Here's what you should do as soon as possible:

1) File a complaint with your local police. (Many police departments can take a complaint such as this over the phone.) Be sure to tell them that you're being harassed by an extortionist who is calling you at home and work and threatening you with arrest if you don't pay him money.  File a complaint each time they call you.  Filing a police report about this is important so your employer knows that you're being harassed by criminals; you may want to ask your employer to help out by filing a police report if and when these crooks call you again at work. (By the way, if this were a real debt collector you can tell him to stop calling you at work and, by law, he must comply; but since these are criminals calling you, I seriously doubt that they would feel compelled to abide by the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.)

2) File a complaint online with the FBI at www.tips.fbi.gov  Include in your report the same information about how these crooks are constantly calling you at work and home and trying to extort money from you under threat of arrest.

3) File a complaint with the consumer protection division of your state's attorney general. The contact for each state's attorney general is at www.naag.org

4) File a complaint online with the Federal Trade Commission at https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01

5) If these crooks call you again, just ignore their threats and tell that you know they're a criminal operation and that you've reported them to FBI and your local police.  Once they know that you are aware that they aren't legitimate, I'll bet they cool it for awhile or stop altogether.

Hope this helps. Good luck!

I was told the exact same thing on 3/19/08.  I asked Leo to send me documentation of the alledged suit.  He said the it was illegal for him to send me this information.  Tried to intimidate me.  I told  him that if he won't provide me with the information, he had better not call me at work anymore.  He kept calling and i kept hanging up.  These people are very annoying.