530-364-0302
Country: USA
530 area code:
California (Chico, Davis, Placerville)
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- davidThese people with a foreign accent keep calling me telling me i just hooked up A new dish network sat.they wanted to give me a extended warrenty,I have had my satelite for 8 months,i keep telling them not to call back
- vici had same calls if the got money from you you can call 888-243-0641 to cxl the charge
- GormfachGot a mobile phone call this morning with no message left. Called back, but got a "circuits busy" tone and another time my mobile phone acted like it lost cell tower connectivity. Calling from a land line I get "Call did not go through, please try your call again... 090T". I feel the phone companies are losing control of their infrastructure.
- Marlene ZuercherMy husband and I have cell phones and we have each received calls from 530-364-0302. They do not leave a message, leaves the number as a missed call. You cannot call back as the call cannot go through. We are on a "Do Not Call" list, but this number gets through.
- annabeanHave gotten calls on both my cell and landline from this number. Never leaves a message.
- Traceygot a call from this number. It was some one calling about my inquiry on DishNetwork's web site. Also got 6 calls from 212-913-0607. Dont go to Dish Network's website to check rates...they will not leave you alone!
- Call type: Telemarketer
- Ken530-364-0302 is from Dish Network or a related calling service working for them.
- Caller: Dish Network
- Call type: Telemarketer
- Susan| 2 repliesThis is a guy calling saying that he is with the Dept of Law. Says he has a legal case against me.
- Call type: Debt collector
- KelliGot a call from this foreign dude saying he was Officer James Brown, and that my relative is a primary suspect in a crime. Told me not to ignore this call, or it would be taken into consideration that I was trying to escape this legal matter that my relative had implicated me in.
- Caller: "Division of law and investigation
- Susan| 3 repliesThey called again, this time they spoke to my employer. They are saying that I borrowed money from cash connection. They have my ssn, phone, they are threatening me saying that I will be arrested at my place of employment that I owe money, my friends will be arrested. This is rediculous and embarssing. Now I think my identity is at risk. Says his name is Officer Lopez (with an indian accent) and that he is calling from the Law Department. I asked that he not call me anymore and he keeps calling. I researched this and see that there are several other complaints like this. This is terrorism.
- Caller: Law Department
- lamet replies to Susan| 2 repliesPROTECT 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. - Susan replies to SusanUpdate: I called this guy from my cell phone, blocked the call and I turned the tables on this guy and started blowing his phone off the hook. I asked for Officer Lopez, was put on hold, he picked up and said "This is Officer Lopez, Dept. of Law and Investigation. I proceeded to tell him that I have contacted the FBI, AGO, FTC, FCC His local law enforcement, my local law enforcement and that he is nothing but a SCAM ARTIST. He immediately responded with I can't talk to you now and hung up. He then called and said that he was going to show up at my place of employment tomorrow and have me arrested. I got back to my desk at work 1/2 hour later and he starts calling me again. I answer and he called me an F*c*ing [***]. I told him the line was being recorded and he told me "i love you" then he says that President Obama is sitting on his D**K right now and the the president can blow him. For the next twenty minutes he continued to call my phone and blast very loud music into it. The calls have seemed to have stopped for now I hope. Anyone who gets a call from this [***] should report it to your local authorities. Do not let yourself be threatened by him. Once you push back, he backs down.
- Susan replies to lametThanks for the information, I am amazed about these crazy people.
- JackHey the guy with foreign accent called me n was trying get my personal information... DONT GIVE THEM UR PERSONAL INFORMATION.... They are fraud.....
- p@ttyI got a call from Jeff Hardy i suppose... It was very hard time understanding him... sometimes he calls himself as an attorney n he leaves a voice mail saying that he is a Officer... He is a fraud....
- scam| 1 replyThis is yet another in the long list of numbers from "officer so-and-so" who can't speak English and who call to threaten you and say that there is legal action against you. When I call back, there is never an answer. Has anyone ever actually talked to these people? Who are they? The last one actually said "If you don't call me back, only God can help you."
- SCAmmmthey are a scam. I had a very long talk with one of them the other day & he told me that he hates doing this but needes to feed his family.
- davidSpoke with a man heavy accent states he wants to leave a matter about
a case very bogus have been getting many calls I will be reporting them
they are bogus don't send money they call from different states - jasmine replies to scamI have talked to these people and once I told them that I have contacted the appropriate law departments they get mad and hang up! i called back NUMEROUS times and even called the law firm/offices that they claim to be. they got upset and kept asking for my name and when I wouldnt give it to them and said they were a scam she said "we will just proceed with legal action" I asked her how, if she didn't have my name and she hung up...if you call and bother them, they get mad
- RB replies to SusanI get the same message. The number on my caller id comes up 70910000 then he leaves a message saying to call at 530-364-0302. I was finally able to get through. The guy spoke broken English and said there was a fraudulent charge filed against me and he was a legal office. This is an absolute scam and a half.
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