858-244-0444
Did you get a call from 858-244-0444? Read the posts below to find out details about this number. Also report unwanted calls to help identify who is using this phone number.
leatherbutch2 Jul 2008Hey if you get a call from this number it's united states processing legal department. A debt collections company stating that indian man named Ian cambell is an officer of the courts and stated my SSI#, where I work and my home address. Do not call them back call an attorney ASAP. Do not pay them a dime they will owe you.- Good advice. It's a notorious debt collection scam.
The main thing 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) 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 earlier in this thread 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 who are posing as law enforcement. Be sure to give as many details as you can.
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 time and again -- phony organization names, thick foreign accents, and oddly worded 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
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-245-0922
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-723-5572
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-2863
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-718-831-7157
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-2857 - Hi,
I was just wondering what you did about this issue, because this same guy called yesterday at my work number and he was saying that he was calling from a debt collection company and for an attorney for some fraud I did with an online payday loan and he had my previous address and my social security number. Maybe you can help me...
Thanks,
Gen- 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
- Hi I saw this posting and I was really shock. I just had a man call me on my cell while at work harassing me with the same bull s**t. He told me that they will eb going into the court and I would be arrested on my job or at my home. He said his name is Roy Campbell and he is an officer.
He gave me a badge number and a legal case number as well. Who the hell are these people.
They can't even speak english properly. They are harassing after I hung up with him he called me 5 times back to back.
- harrassed14 Jul 2008this number called my house told me my ss# and address and that i was facing arrest at my job for all kinds of reasons. this indian man said is name was steve martin. when i would not give him this information that he wanted and most of time i could not even understand him. until he started cursing and calling me names over the phone. i have recorded his phone harrassment and have a witness to the call. he called about 9 times in one threatening to send someone after me and calling me al kinds of horrible names. IF THIS NUMBER CALLS YOU BEWARE!!!!!!!!!!!
- Uniballer30 Jul 2008This idiot called me, with a heavy accent, I thought he was going to try and get me to buy a slurpee, but his name was Officer Roy Campbell, isn't that from the t.v. show chips? Anyway, he had all of my information, stating that I was facing criminal charges and I would be arrested if I did not call him back. If you get a call from this number, don't answer, it is a total scam! I don't have any debt or outstanding warrants, so these are CRIMINALS!
- Donna Keen31 Jul 2008A gentleman calling himself "Roy Cambell" (no "p" in Cambell, he said) with an extremely thick, hard to understand [Indian?] accent called my cell phone on 7/31/08 at 11:27 am EST. He said I was under investigation for bank fraud due to not paying back a payday loan I took out on 6/2/08 from TJF corporation. I have proof of all loan payoffs. This man was rude and kept saying "It's damn sure that this has not been paid off."
- Lori4 Aug 2008This idiot "officer" Roy Campbell was sooooooo rude. He called and told me that i was going to be arrested at my job today at 3:00 if i didn't pay some debt owed to a payday company back from 2006! He's an idiot. I tried to call back the number and it said "sorry this mailbox is full"
- Feeling abused!15 Aug 2008This is the second time this shmuck has called me and harrassed me at my job, more than a year apart! this time He claimed his name was Officer Campbell and Worked with the United Federal Investigations Department. Gave me the number of 1-858-244-0444 Which is a private number from San Diego CA. He asked to speak to my Lawyer before he ever proceded to tell me what was going on. I told him if he called me at work, then he knew my lawyer was not there with me. he then pressed some buttons and said the line was being recorded and it would be used in the upcoming trial unless I gave him the money I owed. This is the second time I have received a call from this man with the same thick Accent. You can hear people in the background talking the same game. I told him I didn't want to talk to him and Hung up. When I called the number back it went straight to a pre recorded voicemail, no rings. I work for a Governmental Agency and I can tell you that our numbers are plainly displayed, on Caller ID and Reverse Directory and that we also Have identified voicemails, Do NOT talk to this guy. And the really bad thing is that when I asked where to send a money order, he said his name!!!!!!! I know better than that and he would not give me any real collection information! So even if I wanted to pay this back, I couldn't. He also, I found out later in the day, Gave all my peprsonal information to three co workers and told them I had a warrent and to tell me to pay or go to jail! Isn't it against the privacy act to give my social and ll other personal info to other people?!>
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