1028551013

this guy is a scammer he changes number that he calls from his says his name is eric matthews and he uses different company names like northern associates, federal banking association claiming you owe money we need to get this person he needs to be locked up for his harrasing people and he is somehow getting peoples information and using it for wrong reasons and it needs to stop.

I am having the same problem. The thing is, I didn't get the cash advance...does anybody actually owe the money they are claiming???

Hello
This guy is a lier and a thief I had my phone disconnected he was calling every day 7 or 8 times than he started calling my cell phone and I could not take it any more so I got rude with him and so far I have not gotten any more calls on my cell phone and I did report it to the police and they said get as much information as we can on these jerks but I don't want to talk them I have had enough of it I also changed my bank account to another bank.

Here is an excerpt from ec's post under https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-718-831-7157

It's a scam.  There's no such thing as a Federal Investigation Bureau or United Legal Processing.

This is a very active group of overseas scammers who attempt to extort money from Americans with a myriad of false and illegal threats. They alternately pose as debt collectors, federal and state law enforcement officers, lawyers and bankers. 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, White Collar Crime Unit and many more.  These crooks often use caller-id spoofing software and/or VoIP to disguise their real location and to make it appear that they are calling from American area codes.

(By the way, 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* 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 )

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) have 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. I suggest you do all the following (most of which you can do online):

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 federal 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:

https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-925-262-1327
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-678-954-6346
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-341-4004
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-856-831-0640
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-949-743-1140
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-410-505-8128
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-917-464-2534
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-210-858-6602
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-775-2121
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-949-743-1156
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-245-1402
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-245-0922
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-723-5572

More information regarding these scammers can be found at:

http://consumerist.com/5086468/us-national-ba ... pless-consumers

This appears to be a scam.  However these people work on YOUR fear.  First, they cannot have your arrested even if you did owe them any money.  They more than likely have illegally obtained your credit report and used the information against you.  The internet offers many way to obatin peoples personal information along with address information which a person can locate neighbors.  Don.t let these people intimidate you through fear, its all they have.  They can not arrest you.  It is against the law for them to call a persons employer and if they did they probably left their name and not who they were.  They can only garnish wages through a court order.  So don't pay them based on threats.  Forward their calls to a disconnected telephone or to one of their own telephone numbers.  If you feel the need to complain, contact the Federal Trade Commission.

I too have been a victom of these people.  They first started calling my cell phone then some how got my work # stating that I owed $632 and if i didnt pay then i would be arrested and sent to jail on three charges one under Federal Banking Violation, check by deception and check fraud.  They also said it was from quick cash which i dont ever recall doing.  They also had all my info, ss#, bank account # everything.  They scared me into sending a fax stating that I did intend to pay this debt etc etc and because they had me so scared with these threats I gave them my debit card #..  I have since found these notes and one of ripoffreport.com and I cancelled my debit card, not till they took $280 from it.. I have filed a police report and I advise everyone else to do the same.   Dont be fooled by these guys like i was..

I got the same call from his partner Craig Stevens.  Their direct number is 714-333-2944.  I did the same thing, called back a ton of times and they wouldn't give me their fax number.  I They gave me their address on Chula Vista Drive or something.  I have it at work but I tried finding it.
I had to demand the address and seriously I have called them constantly to aggravate them.  Same crap story...payday loan from May 2008 they said.  I don't have a list of that at all.  They wouldn't even give me the name of the company.  They said they couldn't.  I want to know how he got my personal information.  Let me know please if you find out anything.

This is too scary it needs to stop, my dad calls me in a panic cause a very thick accented man calls my parents house looking for my husband how in the world they got that associated around i have no idea we dont even live in the same town, nor do we ever use my parents phone number for anything we have our own! But they called my parents house looking for my husband saying that they needed to speak to him about time sensitive material that he will be prosecuted over and hope he has a good lawyer and they wish him all the luck. Cause he will need it, the number that called was 102 855 1013 but the number they left was something else, then another person called back with the same number but gave a completely different number. They wouldn't tell me what he owed the debt for but he was very unfriendly and very rude... so anyone got any insight... my e-mail is kme_2004@yahoo.com
any info would be greatly and truely appreciated!!

I too was scammed yesterday 03/30/2009 by Eric Matthews who said he was from American Credit Services in California.  He said I owed a payday loan from January 2008.  I never had a payday loan, but yet he had allot of personal information which included my name, last four digits of my social security number, my email account, my bank name as well as my personal address.  He said if I did not pay the debt by the end of business, that I would be getting a warrant for my arrest and that my employer would be notified in the morning.  Who are these people?  They have a very strong accent but yet they have American names.

I was threatend by a man who called himself, Eric Matthews who works for American Credit Services in the state of California.  He had a very deep accent, maybe Indian, not sure.  It was very difficult to understand him.  He called my home and cell phone numbers several times yesterday and left a message stating that I owed a payday loan and had defaulted on it back in January 2008.  I have no record of a payday loan.  He further stated that if I did not pay the loan yesterday, that a warrant for my arrest and my employer would be notified in the morning.   I was very nervous about the situation and thought I better go ahead and pay the man as I did not want to lose my government job.  Then when I got home from work and told my husband and son, they both agreed that I had been scammed.  I called the banks of the credit cards used and block any charges and will be receiving new credit cards.   I fell for the scam initially but after researching on the internet, I have found others that were and have been scammed from Eric Matthews.

A guy repeatedly calls from 102-855-1013  asking for a whole other person. He has called 10 times within the last 5 days. One day alone was 5 messages on my machine. he keeps asking for a Monita ??? He apparently doesn't know how to run a scam successfully if he can't even get my name or info right. I hope someone is able to catch this a**hole.

I received 5 calls 4 from 102-855-1013 & one from 138-405-0133.  Names used are Sean Smith, Max Johnson, they leave the phone numbers of 310-362-3167 & 904-425-7345 and the message is always the same "Call back the very second you receive this message, either you or your attorney, or something bad is going to happen to you"  "Your case is being downloaded, and you will be arrested"  "Your Social security number is going to be freezed"  Same Crap every day, I have filed a report with the Attorny General.  I think I will have my Husband call them back, as he is an officer of the court, mabie he will scare them into not calling but I doubt it, as they are probalby in India with a Rag on their Head, sitting under a Camel in the desert.

Do not fall for this scam, they are all the same, do not pay them a dime, either hang up on them, don't answer, or threaten them back.

I keep on recieving these calls from this number at work and at home. They are insisting I have a payday loan from 2007, which I never got. They keep on calling and I m getting fed up and annoyed. Does anyone know how to stop this?

I received the same calls yesterday, once on my cell 8 times on my direct office line. I finally stopped answering since they wouldn't talk to me.  Then my cell phone rang with no caller id and when I answered a woman with a VERY heavy indian or asian accent who said her name was Janet (i think) insisted on speaking to me by name.  I asked regarding what and she just kept asking for me, I informed her she had reached me and she started chattering that I could not understand, I asked to speak to someone who "spoke english" she put me on hold and a man with a slightly less accent got on the phone and was RUDE and still difficult to understand.  I told him I was at work and didn't have time for this.  He gave me 858.777.1977 to call him back and he answered when I did call back immediately from my land line. He said I had defaulted on a Fast Cash advance in Nov of 2007 and would have to be in court the next day at 11 AM I asked where, and he said FLorida, I informed him that it is a large state, he would not tell me what court, and just that I would be sorry the next day.  He was threatening throughout our 5 minute conversation.  I kept asking him what they wanted and he said to pay it back, never giving an amount until I became very Rude back and finally it was $975.  He said my court file would be "downloaded at 5 PM and then I would be notified what court to be in at 11 the next day" He threatened me with being sued, arrested, and that I would be very sorry!  I told him I would fly to San Diego and kick his Sorry A** if he threatened me one more time and hung up. It is 10:15 the next day and I haven't heard from him again.  He also knew all my personal information and that is very frightening.  I was sure that I had not taken this loan but with all the information he knew I was very concerned, but am thankful I looked up and found this site. Hopefully they will get what they deserve!

I also received a call from a man telling me I had a court date the very next day.  I may not be the brightest person that ever walked the earth but I do know that you aren't notified the day before you are to appear in court especially for a lawsuit.  You have to be notified IN WRITING and served a summons to appear in court.  I have since filed a complaint with the FTC and I am also contacting other state agencies regarding these calls.  I called the local police department but they said there was little they could do without any physical notification, such as in writing.  They did leave a message on my voicemail and told me to call 213-405-5347.

I had a voicemail from a Shawn Anderson today (caller ID: 102-855-1013) telling me that I better not ignore his call & that I'd better respond ASAP & if I didn't I will have to suffer consequences... He didn't leave the name of the company he was representing or anything so I have nothing to reference. I don't know what this is for, but has anyone had any money missing from their accounts? Is anyone still receiving phone calls or have the calls stopped? I'm thinking about changing my acct#...
TC

I just started receiving calls from 1-102-855-1013, but they tell me to call back on 213-286-0213, at least that's all that I can understand... Heavy broken up accent, and they've left four messages already. Two on my cell, and two at work.....
I try to call back, but I can't understand the guy.
Is this the same people that you all are referring to?

They just called again, and he was even more threatening this time....

This is ridiculous. Is it even legit? Or worth the time to call them back?

daedles, I just hung up the phone from these people. They've only been calling me for a week & I've been ingnoring the calls. I answered just now b/c I'm already tired of it & I know that this is a scam. When I answered, I didn't even say hello, I answered & said very harshly & rudly "Do not call my phone ever again, I know this is a scam, I have filed a police report & you will not get any money out of me!!!!" & then just hung up in their face... I am going to be just as rude & threatening as they are or even worse! I even threw in a few BAD WORDS!! I am sick of them & done putting up with this. I can only advise not to give or confirm any of your information & I would also suggest going to your bank & letting them know that your checking/savings has been compromised & you need to just get a new checking acct #.
Angry-TC