516-986-3829

Same scammers do not offer any money. You do not owe debt. Breaks all FCRA rules by calling at 5am, threats to my job and harrasses with call after call.

caller left message, ID'd himself as "Robert Smith" but this is the same voice as the other well known scammer "Bob Hardy" - an "attorney" who requires your "attorney of record to call immediately" and threatens you if you don't call and says all he can do "if you don't call me back is wish you good luck."
He already has investigations open on him and the FTC is aware as far as I know.

continuing on my last post - check out these links - usually people who apply for things online are being contacted by this guy - so he is buying or stealing online customers' info to begin with, even BEFORE he calls to scam you out of money:

https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-202-629-9350
http://www.scamchecker.com/category/person-name/bob-hardy

Best of luck!

This same Robert Smith calls me on my cell phone at home and at work at least 2 or 3 times a day. I am getting so fed up with the constant harasment. Is there anything that I can do to stop this man from callling me at all hours.

I am a criminal defense attorney with an office at 225 Broadway in New York City.  A man pretending to be associated with me has been calling people from 516-986-3829.  Please do not be fooled by him.  Do not give him any money.  By the way - you should NEVER give any unknown person a debit or credit card number over the phone to pay a phoney debt regardless of who they claim they are.

did not get name or company, hung up right away as i rec'd 2 calls at 8:00 am om 1/26/12 and 3 calls at 7:00 am today(1/27/12). i hope something can be done to catch these scammers.

I have been dealing with this for the past 2 years. Now his new atty. name is Scott Miller, before he was atty. Green and atty. Hardy, this has been going on for years now and nobody stops them, the read your right thru the phone, which that's not possible, they treathen you that he police is going to knock on your door and so on, so on, so on, this is getting old...and its the same Indian dude. They says that u have scammed with fraudulent checks (which in my case I dont have checks), and payday loans , etc. ANNOYING

threats to my job and harrasses with call after call.

i receive a call from a guy that say he is attorney robert smith from this phone number 516 986 3829  about  some like they be coming to get me .i thing about some money. Why can you get them. I am sick off them calling me on my job. i done know the company  or from where. they never to  be stop.



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Extortion Scam Related to Delinquent Payday Loans

Washington, D.C.
December 07, 2010  FBI National Press Office
(202) 324-3691

— filed under: Press Release
The Internet Crime Complaint Center has received many complaints from victims of payday loan telephone collection scams. Callers claim the victim is delinquent in a payday loan and must repay the loan to avoid legal consequences. The callers purport to be representatives of the FBI, Federal Legislative Department, various law firms, or other legitimate-sounding agencies. They claim to be collecting debts for companies such as United Cash Advance, U.S. Cash Advance, U.S. Cash Net, and other Internet check-cashing services.

According to complaints received from the public, the callers have accurate data about victims, including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses, employer information, bank account numbers, and the names and telephone numbers of relatives and friends. How the fraudsters obtained the personal information varies, but in some cases victims have reported they completed online applications for other loans or credit cards before the calls started.

The fraudsters relentlessly call the victim’s home, cell phone, and place of employment. They refuse to provide any details about the alleged payday loans and become abusive when questioned. The callers have threatened victims with legal actions, arrests, and, in some cases, physical violence if they do not pay. In many cases, the callers harass victims’ relatives, friends, and employers.

Some fraudsters have instructed victims to fax a statement agreeing to pay a certain amount, on a specific date, via a pre-paid Visa card. The statement further declares the victim will never dispute the debt.

If you receive these calls, do not follow the caller’s instructions. Rather, you should:

■Notify your banking institutions.
■Contact the three major credit bureaus and request an alert be put on your file.
■Contact your local law enforcement agencies if you feel you are in immediate danger.
■File a complaint at www.IC3.gov.
Tips to avoid becoming a victim of this scam:

■Never give your Social Security number—or personal information of any kind—over the telephone or online unless you initiate the contact.
■Be suspicious of any e-mail with urgent requests for personal financial information. The e-mail may include upsetting or exciting but false statements to get you to react immediately.
■Avoid filling out forms in e-mail messages that request personal information.
■Ensure that your browser is up-to-date and security patches have been applied.
■Check your bank, credit, and debit card statements regularly to make sure that there are no unauthorized transactions. If anything looks suspicious, contact your bank and all card issuers.
■When you contact companies, use numbers provided on the back of cards or statements

http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/paydayloanscam_120710

i have been getting calls from  this number CONSTANTLY.... this number called my phone 12 times back to back and then threaten me with police and sheriff dept if i didnt pay what i "supposedly" owed....when i called back he said his name was  robert smith...then hung up on me...then i called bacl an hour later after ready this post and he said his name was robert jackson...i dont know about you but i dont know of any indian man with the last name jackson....when i threatened to call the fbi because he was a fraud ///he said "do what you want to do" and hung up....dont be fooled

He is going by Jack Williams now.F3

please stop them. This is to must. calling me on my job. threaten me.  and for me to call them . at this number 516-986-3827. some one stop them. name anttoney Michael   celler or stiller.  


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i keep getting calls from these people

JJ they are scammers and just tell them you reported them to the local authorities and the FBI. They dont like that one bit and let them know you know they are scammers!!!

This guy has called me over and over for the last year using different numbers and names and threatens me with arrest everytime, I usually report him to the police. They say he is under investigation already. He calls my work at least once a day. When he doesnt reach me he calls my cell number and leaves the same message. Here in columbus the news crew got ahold of them and asked them why they were doing this and got hung up on.

EVERYONE!!

I am beginning to believe the common denominator is CNU / CashNetUsa. Whether accidental or intentional is irrelevant, i believe this fraud outfit is getting access to our vital & sensitive information via the records of CNU.

Will everyone here confirm whether or not you are a (former) CNU client?

A person by the name Attorney David Miller calls and states that I am in serious legal trouble..He has called my work repeatedly...Sometimes he will call up to 50 times a day and that isn't an exaggeration. He also calls my friends and leaves messages..He obtained my minor sons first name but had the wrong last name..He threatened to cause bodily harm to him..He has told my employer that he is a terroist and threatened to bomb my place of employment..He has threatened to kill me..I have reported him to many of agencys..The calls will stop for a while and then start again..He will sometimes call from a local phone #. He is very hard to understand..He has called my work stating he is my son, brother and so on..The phone # 516-986-3829 does seem to be a fairly consistant # that he calls from.

One leg of this scam has been shut down:

Even scam artists are outsourcing. On Tuesday in its first crackdown on fraudulent telemarketing in South Asia, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it was shutting down two California-based companies that used a call center in India to defraud Americans out of more than $5 million over the past two years.

Workers in India made threatening calls to Americans getting them to pay money on debts that they didn't owe, the FTC charges. At an FTC press conference in Chicago on Tuesday, fraud victim JanLaree DeJulius explained that she had received a call from someone claiming to be an enforcement officer from the (phony) "Federal Department of Crime and Prevention," who threatened to have her arrested and have her wages garnished if she didn't pay a bill of more than $730. The scam artists had gotten her name and information from a payday loan her ex-husband had taken out in her name.

"It was very embarrassing," Dejulius said. "He knew everything about me so I agreed to set up an installment." She is not alone. According to the FTC, more than 8 million calls were made since 2010 and at least 17,000 transactions processed across the United States related to the global scam.

On Tuesday under request from the FTC, a U.S. District Court in Chicago stopped the international operation, charging Varang K. Thaker and two companies he owned, American Credit Crunchers, LLC, and an affiliate Ebeeze, LLC, with violating the FTC Act and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.

"This is a brazen operation based on pure fraud, and the FTC is committed to shutting it down," said David Vladeck, director of the FTC's consumer protection bureau. "Consumers should not be pressured into paying debt they don't remember owing. Legitimate debt collectors must provide consumers with both written information about the debt, and instructions for protecting themselves if they don't think they owe the debt."

According to the FTC's charges, Thaker used Social Security numbers and bank account numbers obtained from payday lenders to identify the victims for his scam. He outsourced the work to an Indian call center, where workers made threatening calls to American consumers to pay fake debt or collect on bills for which they were not authorized.

Thaker was not available when contacted by telephone on Tuesday. A woman who claimed to be Thaker's older sister and asked not to be named for privacy reasons said he is working with the FTC to help the Indian government pursue the fraudster call center operators. She also said he was innocent in the scam. "He was being used by somebody. He didn't even know where they got the information," she told The Huffington Post by phone. She said that her brother got 10 percent of the earnings from the scam operation.

The FTC charges against Thaker are the latest in a series of police actions by the government agency to put an end to rogue debt collection operations that have become more frequent in the aftermath of the Great Recession. In January, the FTC struck a $2.5-million settlement with debt-buying company Asset Acceptance, LLC, charging that the company had falsely represented itself to customers, including making up phantom debts that customers no longer owed. Last October, the FTC filed a complaint against seven other fraudulent debt collectors, alleging that they had engaged in the same techniques -- demanding money from customers who owed nothing at all.

The growing number of Americans who are unable to pay their bills has meant there are more companies looking to profit from their economic difficulties.

Debt collectors have been taking more aggressive tactics as fewer people are able to make ends meet or are in a cycle of debt. More than 30 million Americans are in debt collection, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Since 2010, more than 4,000 complaints have been filed with the FTC and state attorneys general about fraudulent debt collection calls, the FTC said.

Charles Junitkka, a personal bankruptcy attorney who represents clients in the New York City area, said, "In the last few years, the desperation of the collectors and their efforts have intensified because of the economy."

This story has been updated to reflect comment from a woman who says she is the sister of Varang Thaker. Thaker himself was unavailable for comment.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/21/ftc- ... _n_1289751.html

Got a call from this number guy said he was a lawyer saying i'm going to be investigated by my local sherrifs office for not paying back a payday loan..he also had the last four of my social