818-538-9546

I got about 16 calls from different #'s  ranging back about a month......I reported a previous problem to the local authorities and even the police had concerns and said not to worry just watch bank acct: I so much as changed my phone # and started receiving calls from an Office Robert Spencer; Not here is the kicker I said I was not the person they were seeking and he balntingly called me a liar I ragged on him being a foreign and I contacted the police .......He responded by saying:   GET READY!  [***] YOUR POLICE AND [***] YOUR COUNTRY......(SORRY IF THIS IS OFFENSIVE) Ever since that i have gotten no more calls from him however I am getting calls from Chris Brown @ 818-538-9546  and Michael Barry 951-215-4155 they are claiming the same thing, Funny how foreigners whether they are palastians, iranians, or whatever they have American names:   I maybe stupid and slow But I am not Dumb and Naive

I too have been receiving similar calls, as has my wife.  One time about three weeks ago, the person calling tried to intimidate me into sending money immediately ... "or else".   Someone then tried to process a check with my name and address via wire to my bank.  The amount was (concidentally?) just a few dollars short of the balance in the account!  Fortunately, the bamk was suspicious and called me so I could stop the payment.

In each situation, the caller had a strong foreign accent, but used an anglo-sounding name.  He was very strong in pressing for immediate action and intimated that very dire things would happen if we did not obey his orders.

After too many of these, I called the local police to ask if they had a unit that dealt with threatening phone calls.  The deputy I spoke with at length said she was very familiar with this sort of thing but that there was nothing the police could do, because the perpetrators were in countries like Jamaica, Nigeria, etc.  She also said the FBI would not do anything because these people moved around every few days.   Although she would not "recommend" this, she told me that when someone called her, she used a police whistle and noise horn.  Apparently that stopped these calls!

She also advised that these calls were very common in areas such as Florida, where there are many elderly people who might not be able to deal with the callers and would pay the money demanded for fear of whatever reprisals there might be.

A final point ... we have the "Visual Voicemail" from Vonage that allows us to read the message someone leaves if we do not pick up the call.  The messages are fascinating, as Vonage tries to decode the accents.

Any ideas about how to stop these conniving SOBs?

This guy named Adam called my home from a computer.... The telephone number showed as 0000... He said I received a pay day loan from his company, and said I was charged with Bank fraud, because they could not recover their funds... Here’s the issue, I never received a loan from this company. Moreover, here's the scary part, this fool had the last four digits of my social, he knew where I worked, and my bank Name.... This guy was foreign with a heavy middle eastern accent, so I bit@#ed him out real good, and at the end of the call he said, ok get ready to go to jail, by by..... I told him F&#K you very much, but have a nice day……….. These people are idiots.

This guy named Adam called my home from a computer.... The telephone number showed as 0000... He said I received a pay day loan from his company, and said I was charged with Bank fraud, because they could not recover their funds... Here’s the issue, I never received a loan from this company. Moreover, here's the scary part, this fool had the last four digits of my social, he knew where I worked, and my bank Name.... This guy was foreign with a heavy middle eastern accent, so I bit@#ed him out real good, and at the end of the call he said, ok get ready to go to jail, by by..... I told him F&#K you very much, but have a nice day……….. These people are idiots.

Received same calls, called back. The man that answered, with slight accent, said name was Sean Young at #(786) 528-7417. Unknown calls received also, left message, voice of female, with thick accent, also stated her name to be Sean Young, call back # left (818) 538-9546, called back said Dept. Crime Prevention, located in Ca. Something about a felony I had committed in Ca, although I haven't been to Ca. My #, which I had chosen myself, is designated for Compton, Ca. Cool, huh? Chewed out person that answered both #s, not received any more.

I've just received the same phone call than smity2902. The telephone number showed as 0000. They mentioned that they are a Law Firm at LA. I was really confused and a kind of scared because I noted they had all my personal information, such as last 4 digits of my SS, my bank name and even worst my home address. I really feel pretty happy for knowing that all this was an attemp of a scam and everything is ok. I'd like to advice to contact your bank in order to follow the steps of identity theft because someone else can open a bank account on your name and receive deposits for fraudulent loans.

i recieved a call identical to what smity2902 experienced at work. 3 times in a row. shared the s**t out of me!! closed my bank accounts in fear. stupid f**ker!

these people have called me quite a bit. I have taken out a loan from several online places (which is my own fault), but they threatened a subpeona and said the local authorities would be bringing it to my job on Monday morning. I even called the other number they gave me to get information which 'they don't have' so I know something is up. I am nervous that I will be subpeona'd on monday which I don't know what to do. Also they called me from the 0000 number as well multiple times. I am extremely mad and included using some foul language which i normally do not do.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

I have recieved phone calls that are from 0000 phone number.  I have been keeping trace of the payday loans that I recieve.  The copy that one of my payday loans was through charged it off and was filling charges for non payment.  The payday loan place they told me was the correct a correct one with the correct amount for the orginal loan.  They told me I needed to pay one amount but they settled it for about $200 less then the first amount they told me.  They do have a very bad attatude and have to get them to slow down with what they are saying to understand them.  I did also contact the payday loan company and they did charge it off and press charges.  But the charges are being dropped due to I am trying to pay it back.  The orginal payday company would not answer their phone which did not help me any for me to make arrangements with them before they charged it off.

Called my house 3 times back to back left a message each time. The 1st message was a hang up, the 2nd message introduced them self and 3rd message they finally spit it out. All I could understand was the number to call them back. It was  women that called but a man spoke to me when I called him back named James Anderson with thte Department of Crime Prevention. Asked me if I had an Attorney, lucky dude I sure do!! He said I owed money for a payday loan from Payday Cash that got when I was banking at 1st Convience Bank. That was my bank at one point but I never got a payday loan! So..... I let Mister Anderson know that I knew he was a fraud and that he was being reported as we spoke! He then told me that I was the fraud and I was going to jail!! Lol good luck buddy!!

These scam artists have called from different numbers for me or my wife 4 times in the past. I love it when they call as my family laughs at the voicemails and I call them back and record the conversations and bait them. Anyone who pays these scumbags is a total idiot for not using google.

these people from this number call me back to back from a 000000 number never answer my phone but now calling my job leaving disturbing messages to poeple at my job i have done a payday loan online before but don't know these people or ever recieved money from whoever this is would like them to stop harassing me what can i do

Well I also received a call from the same number from foreigner stating all the same things.  When I started to question him for more details on him and his alleged company he became abusive also.  His mistake is that he called a manager of a collection company that does actually handle legal cases.  I asked him the name of the "attorney" he stated he was representing and he stated "Dept. of Crime Prevention".  I recorded all of this and we have had quite a laugh in the office.

yup same # 818-538-9546  called my trust askin for me... my trust dont give out info of me so im grateful of it but this payday loan crap sounds about right.. i applied long time ago but never actually did it..dont see a reason of me callin the # back since i know now what they want to try.. just becareful of these crooks people.

These calls started in January for me, at first, they were every two weeks then once a month, and I thought it was over until today. Yes, I received another today a person calling himself John Connor number left was 818-538-9546 and he said the same thing. I really dislike people that do this type of thing to other people. In addition, as someone else said above they say that they dislike American but the they pick American names.

I received a call from 818-538-9546 from a Ron Baxter from Dept. of Crime Prevention.  He would not give me any information regarding the "case" against me, even though I asked him for it.  I said that he could email me the information, but of course, that's not going to happen.  Anyway, any info on these people would be greatly appreciated.

I have been on the phone with individuals from this number and have actually filed a police report on them.  SO far they have called my cell asking to confirm my social, family names etc.  Which they can't seem to get anything exactly right.  They have called first claiming that I had committed bank fraud and I was going to jail, they threatened to seize my bank funds etc.  I immediately contacted the police and filed a report.  But we are going on a year later now and now I just bait them for more information like I was instructed.  So far they have repeatedly called again and claimed to by Cyber Crime Prevention and I am being investigated for cyber fraud, then they called and said that I committed Bank Fraud again, and then they called and said they are with Crime Prevention.  George Matthews is to be my point of contact and his number is 818-538-9546.  If I call the number back they say he works there but now no one can speak to me until my attorney calls.  They even went so far as to give me case number MS30312.  This number is located in California and there are cell sites all over in Florida and other states.  They are a Metro PCS affiliate so far this is all I know.  It is a little concerning to me that someone can call from out of the country and claim this type of knowledge and be threatening US citizens.  Something needs to be done immediately.

I have been on the phone with individuals from this number and have actually filed a police report on them.  SO far they have called my cell asking to confirm my social, family names etc.  Which they can't seem to get anything exactly right.  They have called first claiming that I had committed bank fraud and I was going to jail, they threatened to seize my bank funds etc.  I immediately contacted the police and filed a report.  But we are going on a year later now and now I just bait them for more information like I was instructed.  So far they have repeatedly called again and claimed to by Cyber Crime Prevention and I am being investigated for cyber fraud, then they called and said that I committed Bank Fraud again, and then they called and said they are with Crime Prevention.  George Matthews is to be my point of contact and his number is 818-538-9546.  If I call the number back they say he works there but now no one can speak to me until my attorney calls.  They even went so far as to give me case number MS30312.  This number is located in California and there are cell sites all over in Florida and other states.  They are a Metro PCS affiliate so far this is all I know.  It is a little concerning to me that someone can call from out of the country and claim this type of knowledge and be threatening US citizens.  Something needs to be done immediately.

these people have been calling me for months saying i owed money for a payday loan i never pulled, and that im going to court and jail and bla bla bla. heres what you do folks. their number is 818-538-9546 they will answer sounding all official and bull crap and their too slick to bait into a trap as stupid as their fraud is. so anyway call this number over and over and over just like they do to you, and over and over and over and [***] with them, they'll find your name by the number your calling on but they already have it anyway along with tons of other personal information but do this for a good hour, in the long run its less time than you'll waste arguing with them anyway and just blind them with bull [***]. this is what i did and so far a year later they dont call me.
FYI the police cant do anything even though they should because american identitys are being stolen here its the american way we use our own red tape to protect our citizens, the illusion of security folks.

I had the same thing happen last week. A lady by the name of Nancy Parker said she was a restitution officer working for the California law firm, dept of crime prevention. She told me I had defaulted on a pay day loan and was going to be subpeonad to court, as well as one of there "representitives" and my local law inforcement were going to come to my home, arrest me, and take me to jail. These forigners had ALL my personal information, SSN, HOME ADDRESS, WORK NAME AND ADDRESS, and EMAIL ADDRESS. When i asked for the correct name and exact address of there supposid law firm, they refused to give it to me. they told me they could only share that information with my attourney, and then hung up on me. they would not share any information with me about there location or anyother phone numbers. I supposidly owe pay day loans 1375 dollers. no thank you. Never the less very very scary that these forigners have all your personal info and threaten you over the phone and even threaten to physically come to your door and arrest you.  

First I would suggest you file a police report with your local dept. Then call ALL 3 credit beuroes and report the scam and put a 90 day alert on your credit file. Notify your bank asap and provide them with the police report number so they can also keep an eye out for any suspecious transactions. Even though these people didnt tell me my bank acct info. im sure they still have it and its better to be safe then sorry. I also called the BBB and notified them of the scam, and called the Attourney General as well as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Hope that helps!