678-954-6346
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Nikki21 Apr 2008A Ron Collins calls and says that he will have you arrested if you do not call back and when i did speak with him he asked for my SS # and when I would not give it to him he said they he was going to have be arrested and hung up on me..I do beleive that this guy is not real as he could not tell me the company he was from or why he was calling- ABC News just did an investigative piece on this particular scam operation. Here's the report: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5621205&page=1
- Don24 Apr 2008
- Mike24 Apr 2008Caller would not identify what company he worked for nor what the business was he was calling reguarding. He basically was trying to verify my personal information such as name and social security number. He insisted that I would be arrested within 24 hours and to be ready they were sending a police officer over right away. I in turn called the local authorities who arrived and explained that there was no reason for them to arrest me and that it was a basic identity theft case. BE CAREFUL!!!
- We just got a phone call too24 Apr 2008We just got a nasty message from some guy saying I am going to jail and told us that he is a police officer. We are calling the authories and tracking the phone number to an Atlanta Georgia address. I suggest everyone else does the same thing.. he has people's personal information.
- It's a scam. There is no "US National Bank" or "US Legal Investigators". This is the same group of foreign scammers who use caller ID spoofing software or VoIP to disguise where they're really located. They also use many other fake names such as National Crime Division, Financial Crime Division, United Federal Bank, US Legal Investigation Bureau, Hopkins Law Office and Morgan Associates, just to name a few.
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. The interesting thing is that the number of complaints on here about the US National Bank/US Legal Investigation scam skyrocketed *after* Florida obtained a $1.3 million judgment against Ted Ellis Crosby, shutdown his operations and barred him from ever conducting debt collections in Florida. (Read http://myfloridalegal.com/newsrel.nsf/newsrel ... 5257424005858A6 )
One thing for everyone to remember is that anytime someone calls you demanding money to prevent your arrest, it is ALWAYS a scam. No debt collector (let alone criminals posing as debt collectors) have the authority to have anyone arrested for anything. (And it's illegal to them to threaten such a thing.) These same scammers also routinely impersonate bankers, lawyers, FBI agents, police and other law enforcement officials, which, obviously, is illegal as well. (Besides, law enforcement officers aren't in the business of debt collection, and debt is a civil matter, not criminal.)
The bottom line is, these are criminals trying to steal your money. I suggest you do all the following (most of which you can do online):
1) The U.S. Secret Service is responsible for protecting the country's financial infrastructure and payment systems from international and domestic threats. Call or write your local Secret Service field office to alert them to the details of this attempted extortion. The addresses and phone numbers for the local Secret Service field offices are listed at http://www.secretservice.gov/field_offices.shtml or in your phone book.
2) Alert the FBI at https://tips.fbi.gov Be sure to tell the FBI that you are being targeted by extortionists over the phone and give them all the details.
3) File a complaint with your local police. Most police departments will take a report over the phone. Be sure to tell them that you're being targeted by an extortionist and give them all the details.
4) File a complaint your state's attorney general, the contact information for whom is at www.naag.org
5) File a complaint online with The Federal Trade Commission at https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01
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 again and again -- phony organization names, thick foreign accents, and oddly worded false threats that are so melodramatic and ridiculous that it's laughable:
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-925-262-1327
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-678-954-6346
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-341-4004
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-856-831-0640
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-949-743-1140
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-410-505-8128
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-917-464-2534
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-210-858-6602
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-775-2121
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-949-743-1156
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-245-1402- The link above to the Florida Attorney general press release was truncated. Here's the corrected link: http://myfloridalegal.com/newsrel.nsf/newsrel ... 5257424005858A6
- Reports filed on 901-328-9342: http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-901-328-9342
That "Steve Martin" alias appears regularly in complaints about this scam. Also, "IMB" may be a variation of "Impact Business Marketing", which is another fake business name these crooks use. Thanks for the info.
- My name is Officer Rowe I work for the New Bern Police Department (252) 672-4100 I noticed your e-mail regarding your phone call. Can you tell me what police agency you filed your report through and the investigator's name so I can follow up with them. We have also had reports filed with our agency. Thanks Officer Rowe.
- railroad anybody lately? Love to write charges, probably thinking what you can charge me with right now, get that "conviction" right? you could subpeona my ip, hunt me down and slap some handuffs on me. your PD has a "rep" for hating on Military, how many returning vets have you welcomed home with trumped charges and put so much pressure on them they couldn't cope and ended up committing suicide or volunteer to go back to Iraq or Afghanistahn because home is less hospitibal (because of you)? Over 85% of all War vets who committ suicide were in the process of being railroaded by some police officer trying to pad their conviction record with their prosecutor buddies. Don't take it personal, let the court deal with it, you just write that charge. No Mercy, No Compassion. Everyone will stand alone on judgement day. Who will show you compassion and mercy?
Galatians 6:7
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. - Is this the famous "RailRoad Rowe" we heard about in our Holiday briefing. I thought this was just someone the Commanding Officer made up to keep everyone away from New Bern but looks like RailRoad Rowe might just be a real person. Likes to add extra trivial and unsy=ubstianted charges to ensure convictions and set court dates within 2 weeks and stuff like that to as he says" keep Military from "Deploying" to Iraq and Afghanistan so they can "skip out" on charges. I didn't think a piece of trash like that could really exist. Maybe it's just coincidence.
- Good day Officer Rowe
I'm Andrew and I'm a police officer in Bern, Switzerland.
I and my colleagues would be glad to have contact with them. Between the sister cities. We have made a closed group on Facebook. "Partnership Police New Bern, United States Police & Bern, Switzerland". We hope that many join. I wish you and your families a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Excuse my English ...
Andreas Huber
Mobile Polizei Berner Oberland
Stützpunkt Gesigen
3700 Spiez/Gesigen
0041 33 227 61 11
phud@police.be.ch
- Alfalfa25 Apr 2008This is a CRIMINAL operation going by the name of "United Legal Investigations" as well as:
"United Federal Bank"
"States Predisposition Services"
"Bass & Associates"
"Impact Business Marketing"
"Ellis Crosby & Associates"
"Jackson Phillips & Associates"
and many others.
Bill McCollum, the Florida AG, has just successfully obtained a $1.3 million dollar judgment against Ellis Crosby and a permanent injunction barring him from doing debt collections in his State again:
Florida AG Wins $1.3 million Judgment Against Debt Collector
April 8, 2008
A state attorney general wins a $1.3 million judgment from a Jacksonville collection agency on a suit filed in 2005.
The Florida state attorney general announced Monday that his office had obtained a $1.3 million judgment against a Jacksonville debt collection agency stemming from a suit the office filed in mid-2005.
Attorney General Bill McCollum said that Duval Circuit Court Judge L. Haldane Taylor ordered collection agency Ellis Crosby & Associates – and its owner Ted Ellis Crosby – to pay some $1.3 million in restitution and civil penalties for what the judge called the willful violation of Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Business Practices Act and Florida’s Consumer Collections Practices Act. Judge Taylor also placed a permanent injunction on Crosby that will prevent him and his company from engaging in debt collection activities in the state.
Under the judgment, the company will pay $388,000 in restitution, $700,000 in fines and $253,000 in fees and investigative costs.
McCollum’s predecessor, current Florida governor Charlie Crist, filed the suit against Crosby and his company in August 2005. Since the original suit, the Florida AG’s office has hit a number of Jacksonville-area collection agencies with lawsuits (“Florida AG Keeps Hitting Jacksonville Collectors,” Dec. 12, 2007). McCollum became the state’s AG in early 2007, winning election in 2006.
McCollum said that testimony from victims and witnesses revealed that Crosby and company used tactics such as posing as law enforcement officers, threatening seizure of property, and even threatening bodily harm. More than 380 consumers filed complaints against the firm with the AG’s office.
“This case should put similar operations on notice that the penalties for such deceptive business practices can be very costly,” said McCollum in a statement. “Florida authorities will not tolerate unscrupulous individuals who victimize our citizens in potentially difficult financial situations.”
http://www.insidearm.com/go/arm-news/florida- ... -debt-collector
http://myfloridalegal.com/newsrel.nsf/newsrel ... 5257424005858A6
Go to the Florida AG's website and file a complaint:
http://myfloridalegal.com/contact.nsf/contact?Open&Section=Attorney_General - ...25 Apr 2008DO NOT ANSWER THE CALL FROM RON COLLINS FROM UNITED LEGAL DEPT...IT IS FRAUD...ITS A SCAM..THEY ARE TRYING TO GET YOUR SOCIAL AND ALL YOUR INFROMATION ITS IDENITY THEFT...PLEASE DONT ANSWER THEY WILL ASK YOU TO SEND A PAYMENT OF $500 BY VISA CREDIT CARD...
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