510-355-9805

A INDIVIDUAL WITH STRONG ACCENT CALLED AND SAID THAT HE WAS CALLING FROM THE US DEPARTMENT OF INVESTIGATIONS ANBOUT A LOAN THAT I TOOK AND DID NOT PAY BACK AND THREAT TO SUE IN COURT OF LAW.

I got the exact same phone call, a few times in the last couple days. I don't know if it's legetimate or not. Said I took out a loan from a payday loan company and I'm being sued and accused of three very serious charges. Asked me to pay the loan off in two hours or I'd be sued. TOld me I'd have to Western Union the money to their attorney by this afternoon. Not sure if I should do it or not.

Returend a very threatening call to this individual who said he was from the US dept. of investigations. Told him that I would pay nothing, as he would not say who/what he was collecting for. Called me a [***] and threatened to "[***] my in the ass". Positive this is a scam.

said his name was officer scott on my voicemail. said that i was in terrible trouble that could result in legal action. that my s.s. # (and he then proceeded to ramble off my s.s. #!!!!!) was involved in fraudulant criminal activity and that i needed to return his call so he can "help me"... wtf. weirdos these days...

someone called me and I was in legal trouble and they give me my address and then told me I was going to jail because of a payday loan fraud. Be care people are doing anything now to get money!!!!!

Caller identified himself as Steven Richardson, Badge #4113, with the United States Bureau of Investigation.  This is clearly a scam!  Heavy foreign accent, very aggressive.  He is calling my place of employment which is a violation of law.  Claims it involves a loan with Executive Processing which I have never done business with.

I just got a phone call at work from this company.  Very hard to understand, saying they are with the United States Bureau of Investigation.  I am supposedly being sued by a cash loan company that I borrowed money from at the beginning of this year and paid off.  WTF...  are these people stupid.

I got a call from this number as well.  They were difficult to understand, and used foul language.  Very dumb.

Didicult to understand and used very foul language

i got the same call today on my cell phone and he went as fas as to say that they have taken control of my home.

This guy has called my cell phone and has been threatening me I reported it to the police.  They said it is fraud.  To FOREWARN ALL VICTIMS DO NOT GIVE INTO THIS GUY AND GIVE HIM MONEY THE MN SCAM FORCE IS INVESTIGATING THIS SCAMMER.   WHEN YOU ANSWER THE PHONE THE POLICE TOLD ME TO SAY WHAT THE FBI, AND QUIT CALLING THE PHONE.  THE POLICE SAID THIS IS SCAM SCAM SCAM.
This has a black accent and said my ssi number will be dropped.  Do not believe any of what this man is saying.  There are crazy people in this world and this guy is definately one of them Please do not give in to him.  It is FAKE FAke FAke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i just got the same people pulling the same stuff .  and i am here to tell you all it is a scam and give them nothing

i went and called my local F.B.I in Pittsburgh and they told me this is a fraud and if they continue to call you, or if you want to help me turn these guys in, call your local F.B.I and tell them your story and lets get these guys .. the F.B.I told me not to pay anything or give any info to these guys.  There just trying to get your money

It's a scam, and all their threats are false and illegal.  The bottom line is, these are criminals trying to steal your money.  Here are a few news reports and government advisories warning consumers about this scam:

ABC News:  http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5621205&page=1
West Virginia Attorney General:  http://www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam.cfm
WTAE TV4, Pittsburgh:  http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/call4action/17285785/detail.html
Florida Commissioner of Consumer Services:  http://www.800helpfla.com/newsletter/2008/092008.html

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. 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, US Federal Bank, Sonic Bank, Hopkins Law Office, Christian Nicholas & Associates, CashNet, Financial Crime Prevention, National Crimes Division, United Legal Processing, Morgan Associates, United Pay Services, National Processing, White Collar Crime Unit, David Morgan & Assoicates 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.

These scammers 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 gobbylgook phrases like "We are downloading warrants against you" or "We are filing an affidavit against you."  Other trademark phrases include threatening the consumer with ridiculous phrases such as "If you don't pay then only God can help you" or "If you don't call me back then I can only wish you good luck."

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.)

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 (
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.naag.org

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:

https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-9141
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-336-553-3965
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-909-6789
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/1-310-909-8245
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
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-858-244-0444

https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/9044259141

Dont do anything its a scam. Ive contacted the attorney general and its a scam.

I also got a call from a person named James Watt who started threating me directly without even asking me or giving me any details and i was really scared that some one stole my identity but thought of checking in the web site to find out if it is scam call and came to know it is sutpid call. I called up to local FBI in Minneapolis and reported this incident and they mentioned they have getting calls like this since morning so suggested not to give any details about the bank account as they are stealing money from you.

another important point they asked me to send me fax with authorization details all the credit card details

card no
card expiry
cvv no
name & billing address.

Please be aware of this number 5103559805 and fax they refer to is 904-339-9368.

jUST RCVD. A PHONE CALL FROM THIS #, SAID I WOULD BE PUT INTO JAIL WITH REGARDS TO A PAYDAY LOAN I RCVD. A YEAR AGO. THEY SAID THEY WERE THE LAW ENFORCEMENT CRIME INVESTIGATION DEPT. WORKING WITH BANK OF AMERICA. AND TO SEND MY MONEY TO THEM IMMEDIATELY OR I WILL BE ARRESTED

I just got the same call, and when I attempted to call back, got a system error.  I contacted the FBI in Palo Alto and gave them the information, they said it was NOT from them and that there actually really isn't a Federal Department called the U S Department of Investigations.  That if you were to Google that, or even do a local search, it would come up with the FBI office in Palo Alto.  I spoke with a special agent who took the information and told me it is definitely a scam and NOT to do anything.

that's who called me and said the same thing that they where from the us. department of investigation.  i also called my local channel 11 news to have a story on this and the news guy stopped me half way threw and said he knows all about this scam and he was directed by the attorney generals office that all complaints go to there office.  so if you get one of these call you are to call the FBI and the attorney generals office.

This is the same thing that is happening to me. I keep asking what loan company and he never tells me.