214-310-4358

Calling as Officer Rodgers. Claiming he is sending sheriffs to arrest me.  Downloading documents to the court house for my arrest. His name could not be Rodgers he is foreign. Do not answer this number!!!  Federal Crime prevention office is where he is calling for.

Got a call from a Detective M Rogers claiming he's from Federal Crime Prevention. Have documents against me. If this is true paperwork would have been sent to my resident.

This numb-nuts THINKS he is hiding behind a "MagicJack".....
Here is how you check.
Magicjack usually wont issue a number ending in 0000.
You try calling the same areacode and prefix.tehn use the same 7th digit and the rest zeros.
example.....
M.Rogers number is (214) 310-4358
A call placed to (214) 310-4ooo results in a error message from..yes..you guess it...MAGICJACK!!
I can tell you this....NO FEDERAL OFFICE OR AGENT IS GOING TO USE A MAGICJACK!!!
This guy is as phony as a $3 bill.....have fun trashing him....i am :)

Call this guy and trash him!!
it's hysterical HAHAHAHA....he goes completely nuts!

He keeps calling my work the other day he called under a different name ( Jon Abraham; clearly not his name) from a number out of Alabama he started out as the fraud detection department for a law firm and now he has up'd his game to claiming to be from Federal Crime Prevention. He goes nuts when you don't give him what he is after which is clearly not legit as anyone who does that on a call from anywhere legit would be recorded and their ass would be fired on the spot. The FBI released a statement about this kind of scam giving almost exact details of what these people are doing during these phone calls. It is a huge scam!

This is a number associated with a payday loan scam.. Do not answer or call back.  They are claiming to be from Federal Crime Prevention. There is no such government agency.  He claims to be Det. Matthew Rodgers and he has an middle east accent. He will threaten to send the sheriffs after you.  I received an article from the FBI about these scams. Don't answer.

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

This guy called me and said he was a officer and I owed money and if I didnt pay through western union I would be arrested.  I had no idea what he was talking about.  I paid 100 through western union and couldnt pay anything else.  He kept calling me and telling me that if I didnt call him back in 30 min he was going to have officers at my house.  I told him I couldnt pay it and he askd me if I had a job.  I said no.  He offerd me to work for him then saying I could go to western union and pick up the money when he tells me and I could keep a portion for myself.  How can he go from me owing him money too offering me a job.  Sounds shady the more I think about it.  He then told me that I didnt owe anything now and I would not be arrested.  Crazy

Matthew Rogers, or claims he's matthew rogers, called me today with the same crap. I told him I would have my attorney contact him then he said he would have my attorney arrested lol

this number called me the other day and left a msg on my home phone saying he was a federal agent and that if i didnt call him soon he would send out 2 officers and have be arrested so my mom called back and she is a federal agent and as soon as she told him that he hung up and then he calls my cell phone when my number is brand new and dont know how he got it and left me a voicemail and his name was Nancy rogers when he was obviously a guy with a foreign accent and the call came from florida but when he called my house it came from Dallas and his name then was matthew rogers. its so annoying these people need to get real jobs and stop stealing and harassing other people who WORK for there money.

this guy has beeb calling me and i gave him a lot of money how can i stop it?

My daughter answered this call and paid them $600 dollars out of fear. I am irate, what do I do?

This guy has a new ## 214-230-7166
He has now been calling my work #.talking about how the FBI is gonna come get me!! I have told this guy over and over to stop!!

said he was a Detective Mathew Rogers and that i was going to be arrested if i dont call him back.