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I had a call today from number from a guy called raymond scott saying i owed $932 for a loan i did not get. He then said he would put me in jail if i did not pay it.

come put me in jail    please just stop calling

Same crap different #.  I am getting calls from 3 different #'s. that claim I owe for online payday loans that I didn't receive.  When I got nasty back and started cursing at them....I was told to mind my language and (oh Gee) Igot hung up on...go figure.

Me as well. he said his name was raymond scott..and he worked for BCI...He said I was going to have three criminal charges filed against me

This is a scam.  The person/persons making these calls have a middle eastern accent.  If you get a call from this person, contact the attorney generals office.  These calls originate from New York.  

These people use their scare tatics in order to extort money, and obtain your personal information.  Probably so that they can commit identity theft.  My suggestion to the person calling, harrassing people with their empty threats is to Get A Job, you creep.  Take your weak ass scam back to your country.

Got a call yesterday 2/15/12.  Wanted one of my co-workers who wasn't in.  Said his name was Roy Wilson, with "you got it", a middle eastern accent.  I was suspicious and I asked him are you sure your name is Roy Wilson.  He said he was sure and that it was very important that he speak to my co-worker.  I told him that if he left me a message I would call my co-worker with the information so he could call him back.  He said he was with the BCI so I told him I wanted to know what the BCI stands for.  He said that it wasn't important and so I told him that I wouldn't forward the message.  Then he told me it stood for Bureau of Crime Investigations, and that I better get the information to my co-worker in a hurry or my co-worker would be in a lot of trouble with the Bureau.  Yeah - right.  Needless to say I looked up the number found this link and have trashed the number.

I have been receiving calls from this number I don't answer numbers I don't know so I let them go to my voice mail since they have been calling my cell phone. I finally decided to answer the call since they keep calling when I did they tried telling me that I owe money for a pay day loan that I have never even taken out and that I had an hour to decide if I was going to pay it back or they are going to take me to court. When I tried asking information about it they just kept hanging up on me. So I called the number back to talk to someone different and they told me that they can't give me any information since it is all confidental and that there is nothing I can do. So I told him that they need to send me whatever paperwork they have so that I can have my lawyer look at it and they hung up on me again. Don't answer this call this is just a scam. Everytime I was put on hold they didn't even put me on hold they just yelled in the background to get someone else on the phone.

I had this same number call me saying I owed their company $350 for a payday loan that I never recieved. When I told them I would get ahold of my bank a figure out what they were talking about they got really short with me saying I needed to take care of this right away otherwise it was going to be out of their hands and I would be going to court.. But the scary part is they had my SS #. When they asked if that was my # I told them that I didn't need to be giving that information out. WHAT DO I DO?!

This number called asking for my husband. I told the guy with the middle eastern accent that he had the wrong number. He then asked me "who am I calling with." I hung up on him. He then called back. When I said hello he said "Yes, who am I calling with?" I said why do you need to know that? I told you you had the wrong number. There is no person by that name here. He then promptly hung up on me. How stupid do these people think I am?!

These con artists tried pulling the same crap on me. I don't answer their calls. They called my job, using MY cell number! Then when my co-worker hung up on them, they called my celln with MY job number! I mean, really?! Are you THAT damn thirsty to rob from the working class, who struggle to meet bills everyday? Classless [***] F**CKS! Get a life!

These con artists tried pulling the same crap on me. I don't answer their calls. They called my job, using MY cell number! Then when my co-worker hung up on them, they called my celln with MY job number! I mean, really?! Are you THAT damn thirsty to rob from the working class, who struggle to meet bills everyday? Classless [***] F**CKS! Get a life!

These con artists tried pulling the same crap on me. I don't answer their calls. They called my job, using MY cell number! Then when my co-worker hung up on them, they called my celln with MY job number! I mean, really?! Are you THAT damn thirsty to rob from the working class, who struggle to meet bills everyday? Classless [***] F**CKS! Get a life!

The same Con Artist called me and game me my Social Security and said that i got a pay day loan from US Payday loans and that my check had bounced and i owed $1498 and that I must pay it as soon as possible if not by the next day I was going to have 3 arrest warrant for my arrest for Check Fraud,Burglary and theft.Then he told me I needed to go a nearest store or Walmart and needed to buy 3 pre paid cards and call to give them the number on them.He ordered me if I didnt do so I would jeopordize my job and he would call my boss and tell him he said he had my credit report which I believed becuase he had my last four of my SS# the most scary thing about this is he called my job and cell phone and to top it off he kept calling my work screaming at me to put my Boss on the phone HE PISS ME THE [***] OFF at this Point Dont get scammed like this I asked him to give me his Buereu number since he worked for Buereu of Invsetigation and he said no because I am a Criminal and I dont need to know nothing so I told him he wasnt getting [***] from me to do what he had to do.He hasnt call me yet but listen all these scums only want to scare you and steal from you so dont get Robed from these creeeps there low lives who dont know how to earn a hard worked dollar!You know what I am going to WORK on investigating who these punks are and I am going to help put them behind bars like the RATS they are they F**K with the wrong [***]!

I had this same number call me saying I owed their company $350 for a payday loan that I never recieved. When I told them I would get ahold of my bank a figure out what they were talking about they got really short with me saying I needed to take care of this right away otherwise it was going to be out of their hands and I would be going to court.. But the scary part is they had my SS #. When they asked if that was my # I told them that I didn't need to be giving that information out. WHAT DO I DO?!
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Called an threatned me for bills i do not have

Called me 20 times in one day

It's a scam, please don't let them trick you!

I just had these dumb sh$ call me and threaten me and said that if I did not pay 400 that they would put me in jail for loan I don't have I told them to take there threats and go back were some one can under stand them get there own money at real job

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

You can hear a whole lot of people in the background.  Not like a law firm at all.
Sick of it.  Said his name was James Anderson.  Do not listen to what he had to say