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They have been calling me over the last two days, same M.O. ..claim they are calling from Morgan Associates Law Firm representing US National Bank. I asked them to fax me some details about this supposely debt, they state that they can't it's is attorney client privilegde.  I spoke to them on 2 occasions and received different information about the debt mont when the loan was taken out.  I originally thought it was a case of identity theft and someone opened up an account in my name, because I knwo i didn't owe nobody.  Thank you for this website, this posting.
The number they gave me was 310-499-9983 but caler ID said another number.

Update:

A consumer posting a complaint about these same scammers at https://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 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
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-2863
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-718-831-7157
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-2857

ec- you're very informative about this. are you a lawyer? you sound like one. but i have to commend you, you have helped alot of people. keep up the good work.

I'm just a retired eccentric. :)

Glad to help!

Ok so I am seeing that you all are getting the same thing just from another number that is close to the one that showed up on my caller id. The number there is 310-499-9984. So I guess they got hip to everyone realizing it was a scam and changed the number by one digit! Ha!

Anyways, really simple for me. I just don't answer the phone anymore. Everyone who knows me knows that they must leave a message if it's that important. If they don't then I don't think twice about who called.

I received a call on my answering machine on 7-11 also from (310) 499-9984 from someone that spoke with a heavy Asain or middle eastern accent telling me to call them and if I ignored the message that they wished me good luck.

But the way they said it was in a threatening manner. They never Identified themselves. Also I have tried looking up this phone number to find out who it belongs to but have been unable to.

Does anyone have any means of looking it up without having to subscribe to one of the reverse phone listing companies?

Thanks

These crooks use caller ID spoofing and/or VoIP accounts to disguise their real location. Most of the calls originate in India, but the caller ID  incorrectly shows the call as coming from an American area code. So doing a reverse search on these numbers won't do much good.  For example, a reverse search shows that 310-499-9984 is a land line located in Beverly Hills, CA. But the call, as I said, really came from a sweatshop phone back in India.  But these Indian creeps are making these calls on behalf of scammers based in the United States.

See my message above from June 20 for information on who these crooks are and how to report them to federal and state law enforcement.

I GOT A CALL FROM RICKY WILSON.HECTOR. AND MARVIN JACKSON WHO ALL SOUNDED LIKE THE SAME PERSON HE SAID HE WAS CALLING FEOM  US NATIONAL BANK RESTATUTION DEPT.STATING MY 90 YEAR OLD MOTHER OWED THEM 1375.00 HAD ALL HER INFORMATION STATED SHE OWED MONEY FROM  12/07/2007 MY MOTHER DIDNT OPEN A BANK ACCOUNT UNTIL 6/3 08 THREATEND TO HAVE HER ARRESTED AND DOWNLOADED CHARGES WANTED HER TO GO BUY VISA CARDS AND SEND AND COPY AND FAX TO THEM HE TRIED TO GET SMART AND INTIMADATE ME BUT I IN TURN CALL HIM BACK  REPEATEDLY 50 TO 60 TIMES HARASSING HIM HA HA ALSO I WENT TO POLICE DEPT   STILL CALLING MADE A REPORT CALLED AGAIN CALLED THE FBI AND I WILL CONTINUE TO CALL UNTIL THE [***] CHANGE THEIR NUMBER  THE FAX NUMBER IS 949-682-4841 I WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW THIS IS A SCAM TARGETING AND SCARING PEOPLE LET IT BE KNOWN THAT EVERYONE CANT BE INTIMADATED BY THEM IF THEY CALL YOU CALL THEM BACK LETS BAND TOGETHER AND PUT A STOP TO THIS

ABC News just did an investigative piece on this particular scam operation. Here's the report:  http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5621205&page=1

ABC News just did an investigative piece on this particular scam operation. Here's the report:  http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5621205&page=1

they are at it again. but this time, the number comes in "incoming call" no number shows up. i asked who he was and he stated "officer David Brown". i laughed and hung up. they are pathetic.

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