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MARK
8 Feb 2008
they called supposedly from the "hopkins law firm" very hard to understand accent. I have NO idea what it could be about and am always leary of these types of calls
Hey guys, I'm a lawyer, working very hard to track these guys down. I have four clients with issues but for the life of me can not track this company down. if you wanna go to my site and submit your story that would help me.
This person from the 9252621327 number called me at work the other day about an outstanding payday loan.(The most stupidist thing I have ever done was to take that out)It was suppose to be payed back by debit from my bank account.)This man name James Cameroon I believe I may have spelled the last name wrong has called my job many times and was told by an assistant not to call back. He still did. He has threatened me with jail and told me they were going to download my case several times whatever that means. He told me my problems would get worse. He asked if I have ever been picked up by my job and I said no. Several times he wanted my attorneys name. He said he was going to file wire charges and fraud charges on me. This is a 300 dollar loan he is charging for 600. I asked why so much and he screamed at me look at your contract. I was very upset and shaken up on the first call. THe second call I gave him a hard time but he would not give me an address or let me speak to a supervisor. When I told him (I know this was wrong please forgive for saying this) to go back to where he came from he got upset and told me God Bless You. Im trying to find out what I can do to make the phone calls stop
First of all, relax. No debt collector has the authority to have anyone arrested for anything. The criminals calling you are no different than the infamous Nigerian email spammers; their goal is to steal your money by gaining access to your bank account and credit card numbers. The only difference is, the Nigerian spammers play on your sympathy and these phony debt collectors play on your fear.
I'm not sure who is actually calling you, but their method resembles that of the notorious Bass Associates/States Predisposition/Jackson Philips/United Federal Bank/United Processing Legal Department scam. (They go by many other names, most of which are meant to sound like government or banking entities.) Here's a recent news article from the Florida Times-Union about this criminal operation and how the Florida attorney general is pursing them even as they fled for Georiga: http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/120107/met_221875639.shtml
Quite a few grifters like the Bass operation not only route many of their calls through various U.S. area codes, they also have calls placed from offshore -- all in an attempt to disguise their identity and location. Another common ploy is to convince the victim to send money via Western Union. These 800Notes reports are pretty typical:
3) File a complaint with the consumer affairs division of your state's attorney general. The contact information for each state's attorney general is listed at www.naag.org Just scroll down to the national map and click on your state.
4) Since these crooks are using a telephone phone to extort money from you, report them online to the FBI at https://tips.fbi.gov/
5) Contact an attorney to defend your rights and pursue these crooks. There are plenty of consumer law professionals who work on contingency in matters like this. Here are links to websites that either provide attorney referrals or are law firms that specialize in suing outlaw debt collectors:
I am an investigator with Baxter Credit Union in Chicago. Two of our customers received the same type of call. I am trying to find out how peoples personal information was compromised. Did you take out a loan with cashnetusa? That has been the only correlation i could find so far with the two cases that I have seen.
Bkwesq - 9 Feb 2008Hey guys, I'm a lawyer, working very hard to track these guys down. I have four clients with issues but for the life of me can not track this company down. if you wanna go to my site and submit your story that would help me.
I CANT FIND YOU COMPANY WITH THE BBB SO IM TO THINK YOU ARE PART OF THE SCAM.. PEOPLE DO NOT COMTACT NO ONE THAT STATES THEY ARE A LAWYER WITHOUT CHECKING WITH THE BBB TO SEE IF THE COMPANY IS REAL!!!!! WWW.BBB.COM
They are starting to falsly post here on 800notes under different numbers. This scam has been ongoing for almost 2 years now - AS this scam is all over the internet and news -its not working anymore. 888-771-9249 has Gary falsly telling people they are legitimate company and tracing IP addresses - which they cannot get without a court order.
http://www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam.cfm Attorney General Darrell McGraw took the extraordinary step today of warning the public about a band of scam artists making threats to consumers who allegedly obtained Internet payday loans in West Virginia and across the nation. The consumers they threaten never obtained a loan at all or paid it off years ago.
Internet payday loans are short-term loans or cash advances, usually for 14 days, made over the Internet via interactive web sites and secured by an agreement authorizing debits of the loan and all fees owed from the consumer’s checking account. These loans typically charge interest rates ranging from 600-800 APR and are unlawful in West Virginia.
The scam artists, who speak English with a foreign accent, call themselves “U.S. National Bank,” “Federal Investigation Bureau,” “United Legal Processing” and numerous other phony names. They refuse to disclose real names and addresses and are believed to be operating “off the grid” from homes, automobiles, or from off shore locations or foreign countries, including India. Since the scammers have kept themselves purposely well hidden, thus far no law enforcement agencies have succeeded in locating or shutting them down.
The scammers typically pose as law enforcement officers, investigators, lawyers, and bankers and threaten consumers that they will be arrested for “bank fraud” or other fictitious crimes unless money is wired immediately. They simultaneously scare and confuse consumers by using meaningless legalese gobbledygook phrases such as, “We are downloading warrants against you” or “We are filing an affidavit against you.” Consumers who don’t immediately fall for the scam are warned, “Only God can help you now.”
The scammers almost always call consumers at work several times a day, and tell their supervisors, “Your employee has committed fraud and is about to be arrested.” Such threats have proven unsettling even to the most savvy consumers and employers who suspect the calls are fraudulent.
Attorney General McGraw stated, “Ordinarily my office protects consumers from fraudulent activities by seeking injunctions in court. But legal action cannot be taken until the scam artists can be located. Even then, it is unlikely that the persons behind the fraudulent calls and extortionist threats would obey a court order. In this case, the consumer’s best defense is to be armed with the knowledge of the scam so that all demands for money can be resisted, despite the false but scarey threats of arrest.”
McGraw added, “Because the fraudsters make a special point of calling consumers repeatedly at work, employers must understand that the consumers are innocent victims of a criminal enterprise and cannot stop the calls from coming. I also wish to assure the citizens of West Virginia that my office will continue to do everything possible to locate and shut down the outlaw debt collectors.”
More information about this fraudulent debt collection scheme is available at the Attorney General’s website, www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam. Any consumers who have been threatened by these persons or wish to file a complaint about another consumer matter may do so by calling the Consumer Protection Hot Line, 1-800-368-8808, or by obtaining a complaint form from the Attorney General’s web site.
It's a debt collection scam. And all their threats are false and illegal. This is a very active group of scammers, many of whom are calling from India (and probably other countries) and are in cahoots with a group of American pay day loan scammers. They attempt to extort money from consumers with a myriad of false and illegal threats, and alternately pose as debt collectors, federal and state law enforcement officers, lawyers and bankers. Their trademark is to use meaningless legalese gobblygook phrases like "We are downloading warrants against you" or "We are filing an affidavit against you." Another trademark phrase is to threaten the consumer with something like this ridiculous phrase: "If you don't pay then only God can help you." Typical of many financial scams of this variety, they usually demand payment via Western Union or MoneyGram or credit card. They use any number of phony names such as US National Bank, Federal Investigation Bureau, US Legal Investigation Bureau, Hopkins Law Office, United Legal Processing, Morgan Associates, United Pay Services, National Processing, White Collar Crime Unit and many more. These criminals also use many phone numbers from many area codes; they're probably using caller-id spoofing software and/or VoIP to disguise their real location. The main thing to remember is that anytime someone calls you demanding money to prevent your arrest, or demanding your lawyer's name so they can sue you, 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 a complaint about these same scammers at http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-718-831-7157 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. And if the crooks claim to be law enforcement or lawyers, officers of the court or bankers, be sure to include that information in your report. 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.wvago.gov 5. File a complaint online with The Federal Trade Commission at https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en 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:
Scam alert: Bogus debt collectors By Leslie McFadden • Bankrate.com Monday, Aug. 3 Posted 2 p.m. Bankrate reporter Leslie McFadden contributed this entry. This scam isn't technically about credit cards, but it is scary enough to post a warning. The Better Business Bureau issued an alert today saying consumers across the country are getting phone calls from bogus debt collectors claiming default on a payday loan. Of course, the consumer needs to pay a large fee to avoid arrest -- as much as $1,000. The caller poses as a lawyer, and may threaten extradition to face trial if the consumer doesn't pay up immediately. What makes these calls alarming -- and perhaps convincing -- is that the perpetrators reference the consumer's personal information, such as the person's Social Security number, driver's license number, previous bank account numbers, home address -- even personal references. "The amount of information they have is really troubling," says BBB spokeswoman Alison Southwick. She adds that the amount of data points to a possible security breach. Spread the word to your friends and family: Don't give out personal or financial information to an unknown caller. Scammers can spoof Caller ID to display different numbers, so trust your instincts over technology. The BBB offers these tips: • Ask the debt collector to provide official documentation which substantiates the debt. • Do not provide or confirm any bank account, credit card or other personal information over the phone until you have confirmed the legitimacy of the call. • File a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission online if the caller is abusive, uses threats or otherwise violates federal telemarketing laws or the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. • File a complaint with the Better Business Bureau online if you believe a debt collector is trying to scam you.
On the caller ID was the number 240-365-0592 and the message left was to call 925-262-1327 back It was VERY URGENT!!!They called my cousin today and threatened her with jail for 3 different charges: 1. Violation of International banking laws 2. Collateral check fraud and 3. Check by deception. And that a warrant was being issued for her at 6:00 pm tonight and that she had better pay up or go to jail. She called me to help her out. I asked him to hold off until I could verify the "loan" because he said it was EFT'd into her bank account. There was no deposit on the date he said at all. NO LOAN!The names used in this call were Mike Robinson and Jason. They have a very thick mid-eastern accent and were very illegal in the methods to threaten. We have notified the local law enforcement and the FBI and will notify the FTC tomorrow. Now here is the SCARY PART... He gave her ALL of her information... bank acct#, SS#,everything... SO we HAVE to buy a credit protection plan, notify the bank to HOLD all EFTs etc, etc, etc. Some things you should know... They did NOT have the routing # DO NOT give them any INFORMATION AT ALL!!!!!!!
AGain tonight I was called at work, thankfully one of my coworkers caught on again that this is the man harrasing me about the payday loan. She told him I was not working tonight so he asked to speak to my manager. A little embarrased I had to give him a quick spiel on what was going on. He got on the phone and again James Cameroon told him he needed to speak to me. My boss told him he could not call there no more and he had allegations against me, my boss told him that his allegations were not against managment or the company. He asked for an address and once again he would not give it. This person does not care he will keep calling back and does not follow any laws. He has been told several times not to call but he keeps doing it. They told me the same thing as I said before, they would get me for check fraud and threatened me with jail. I don't trust these people. Almost scared they will show up at my door.
I was reading all those complaints about a specic number and I ran accross a Hopking law firm, they called my on Friday demanding payment for a payday loan it was a compleatly different number. it is a scam to get your hard earned money