916-538-7239

GOT A CALL FROM THIS NUMBER SAID HE WAS AN ATTORNEY HIRED BY THE COLLECTION AGENCY
FOR CASH ADVANCE IN OKLAHOMA
AND GAVE ONLY TWO OPTIONS
Pay the 400.00 within 30 min s or MY HUSBAND WHO HE SAID OWES THE MONEY
would be arrested within two hrs
SCAM I reported it to FED TRADE COMM
and all 3 credit places and my local consummer trade and have had him change his bank account number
and credit card number cuz that person knew his soc sec number and bank account number

Got a call from this number said he was an attorney and that my husband needed to get one himself because if he didn't call back he the cops were gonna be at my address in the morning to put him behind bars, and that he owed 3000.00 in the California court. I told him he was a scammer and he told me to shut my mouth. I called the local Sheriff's office and advised them. These people have strong thick accents like foreign.

I am a law enforcement officer in Alabama. We have had reports of the same. I contacted the number and they were very rude and ignorant to the law. This is a scam. Their information has been forwarded to the United States Secret Service. They advised to just hang up on the caller.

Our town has also had similar complaints from the same number a individuals with accents.
Fowarded info on the Federal Authorities.

J.M. Hartsock
Chief of Police
Town of Jonesville, VA

This is a criminal extortion scam operating out of India. They are making the calls utilizing VOIP and the names of legitimate firms to make it appear the calls are originating from within the US. There is NO "company" or "debt" and you will NOT be arrested. They are harvesting and/or buying consumers' personal identifying information from unscrupulous websites like the one you may have filled out an application with, and you need to do whatever you can to protect yourself. This includes: Notifying the FTC: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/, placing fraud alerts with all three credit bureaus, notifying your bank and employer and letting these criminals know you are aware they are attempting to extort money for a non-existent debt and have alerted the authorities.

ABC News released an investigative report on this scam in June. The FTC has indicted one of its ringleaders for criminal fraud:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/phantom-debt-co ... 16512428&page=1

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/08/bgm.shtm

recieved a call from this number advising me that i will be arrested in the morning unless i pay them.

I got the same call stateing he was an attorney, and i owed money and bla bla...said if i didnt pay $795 the police would be at my door tomarrow...i asked him if he made good money at scamming people out of money..cuz he wasnt gonna get mutch outa me..lol, i told him to bring the cops..he got rude after that

I have no idea whh and who these people are. But it needs to be addressed immediately .

They harass me @ work. They tell me I better pay some amount of money or else I'm going to jail they know my social my address where I live

I have also received a phone call from this "lawfirm" and he got very rude with me when I told him can I speak with someone in charge who can speak english and they knew the last 4 of my social and my address. After that I reported it with the authorities and the officer calmed me down and told me it was a scam. After talking with the detective the scammer called again and told me that an Fbi agent will be at my home Monday to serve me documents. I didn't answer or call back but seeing how many people have been affected by this scammer made me feel better knowing that sooner or later these people will be caught.

A Toney Cooper left the message saying that I had to call him by the next morning or I was going to be arrested. I think it is a scam from a cash advance place over the internet.

This is very frusterating. My wife and I recently filed bankrupcy and has been dicharged. We are starting over financially and this is not something I want to deal with. I hope anyone that hears of this alerts authorities so this stops.

I just got a call from this number myself.  this same number called me about two years ago so i knew it was a scam.  Who can contact to make these people stop.  they have to be stopped.  isn't this harrassment?

I got a call from this number telling me that i have criminal chargers filed against me and asked if i had an attorney. When I asked what he was talking about he was like you dont know then you need to call Mark i couldnt understand what the last name was but the number he gave me was the same number that called me. He even told me that if i didnt call this Mark dude that i would have cops come to my house or job. How can i stop them from calling me..........

Four phone calls in a span of 5 minutes came into my cell this morning.  Two messages were left - one that was dead air and the other was full of threats.   In that second voice mail, they said the I or my attorney should call them back within 3 hours or they were sending out  a sheriff to come out and arrest me.  He repeated my home address and mentioned that he knew my bank's name.  If I didn't call back, that I better take care because they were coming to get me.  Even though I looked up the number and saw the whole thing was a scam I still got upset.  I called the local police department.  I told them what was said and gave them the phone number I received.  The police said that it was a scam that seems to be going on around here.  They are sending out someone so I can file a police report and formal complaint.

This person with a heavy indian accent called me at work and my cell stating he is Steven Ellis an attorney...made threats of me being arrested for check fraud..very rude...kept pressing the issue that it is an emergency that I pay them. Had the same thing happen with this other number 786-528-3069...said his name was Michael Steven Davis...swear it was the exact same person....making same threats! Been told to not answer calls from these people and to let my employer know to not accept these calls from these people.  Crazy....telling me a loan co. deposited money in my account and now they are getting nsf and I better pay or I'm going to jail!! I don't know of any loan co. that's going to just deposit money in your account without some type of comfirmation from you that it's ok!!!

I got the same message from Indian people calling me at work and threaten me. This is a scam!!! Block the number and report it.

I got the same phone call saying he was Brian Davis. Have any of you recently cancelled auto insurance or some other service? I noticed as soon as I cancelled my policy with 21st I started getting a ridiculous amount of spam emails and phone calls for payday loans, including this guy telling me I was facing legal action for a payday loan I never took out. Read fine print with companies you do deal with on what information the give out. This is getting really annoying

I got a message on my cell phone voice mail to call these people back. I could not understand anything the guy said on the message except for the phone number. I could tell there were threats and it sounded very serious. When I called the number, the guy said his name was Mike Campbell and that there was $3000.00 put in my bank account that I never paid back from a payday loan. He told me I would be arrested in the morning by my local police and they would see me in court. The guy also said they were going to call my employer to make them aware that I was guilty of Grand Larceny Theft. The guy had a very heavy foreign accent. I did make my boss aware since I did not know at the time what was going to happen. I knew I did not have $3000.00 magically appear in any account of mine. I called my wife and told her what was going on. She listened to the message that was left on my voice mail and decided to go online and type in the phone number only to find this is a scam. Thank god, but how sad that someone is getting away with this. Imagine how many people pay on the spot and again, these people are getting away with it! Makes me mad!!!!

I just received a call from a Mark Scott advising me that he was an assistant to Mark Victor - I have a Federal Case pending against me and that he was unable to tell me what the case was or where it was pending - I should call Mark Victor right away at 916-538-7239 and he would be able to tell me the charges and be able to help me - scary he had the last four digits of my social security number