707-520-7535

I had pending loan which I had missed out by some financial problem but through those guys I can clean up my outstanding bill..thanks them

received numerous calls from the number, says they are the U.S.Justice Office and want to talk about a criminal paper on file about me. I am so tired of these people who can't even speak good English calling from some "boiler room" (you can hear several other criminals talking in the background). They can't speak the language, and have no understanding of the Judicial System, how it works. I hope that at sometime our government will decide that they are trying to raise money for terrorism and really investigate them through Homeland Security that would be good enough for them since I'm pretty sure they are not even in this country no matter how many phone # they "piggyback' through. For now I just will have to be content with setting the phone next to the stereo and turning it FULL BLAST.

Got a callfrom this number person can not be understood, but am assuming that it was not a promise of good but a promise of bad. Have not a clue what was said and what I did to warrant the call.  this is about the 4=5 call I've had like this, why has something not been done to get rid of the jerks.

if any one wants to kick in there door the are right off the Bohemian Highway in Monte Rio, CA about a quarter mile south of fir rd its a falling down brown fence.

Just received my 3rd call TODAY from this number about some sort of legal problem, if call not returned within 24hrs. my next call will be to my lawyer from jail.  As stated by previous call receivers you can not understand this person and there is plenty of background noise.  I wish there was a way to eliminate these calls and the callers.

I received a call from this number. The man said his name was Jerome King, and he was calling from The Department Of Criminal Justice and quote "There have been some crimes against your husbands credit that I need to talk to him about." Give me a break! if you are going to represent yourself as a government official, you should at least know how to speak. All the time on the phone I could hear other idiots in the background talking on the phone as well. SCAM!!!!!

Regardless if you had a legitimate loan that you did not pay, this company is a fradulent company. DO NOT pay them anything. I had a payday loan years ago 1 time,and I paid it. They must have got a list of peoples info from a scammer!

just got a call from this number, i couldnt even understand what the heck they were saying, but i know its a scam, the prblem is that they are calling to my work now. i wish they can go away!!!!!!!

Just gor a call from thsi number for one of my employees. From the sounds, it sounded like one of those outsourced calls but said it was a LEGAL MATTER. So since it sounded fishy, i thought would look it up and as to my expectations here we are. Its a california code and my employee has never been out of houston tx. So go figure. I hope now they dont bombore us with those calls.

Over the past two days we have recieved 8 calls from this number. If it's more than one person they all have a heavy Indian accent and not very good English. The names and stories seem to change a little but the last call said they were D.C.J.[ which doesn't exist ]. Several months ago my wife got a couple of cash advance loans but paid them off right away. I know they hacked somebody's system and got my wifes info but I sti ll have no idea how they got MY cell phone number. As info started to come together I realised that this was a scam. I told him I was on to him and that I had already been in contact with the F.BI. after some studdering he hung up the phone.

I keep getting a call from this guys "Mike Foster" stating that he is a criminal investigator. I'm tired of him calling trying to use fear to get me to pay this bill.. I don't even know what he's talking about. Something about a pay day loan, but I don't owe any pay day loanas.

Get multiple calls a day from 707-520-7535...they state they are from US Justice Office and if my atty doesn't contact them then they will forward my file to the local authorities.  They do not speak clear english and if you call back they answer the phone "Hello" with about 10 other people talking in the background.  This is a scam. I am filing a report with the State Atty General to stop this harassment.

I started getting these calls today.  They are threatening to hack into my bank account.  Can they do that?  Should I close the account? Call the police?  We turned down a payday loan several months ago, but we'd already shared our personal info.  Not sure what to do.

This fraudulent number called me and stated my name and social was under criminal investigation for fraud. The non English [***] said that I got a payday loan for $500 and had to pay $677. I reversed it on them. I told them I was recording our conversation and asked permission since fl is a two party consent law. He hung up on me, then called back three hours later forgetting he spoke with me. Scam!!! When he said he was in the criminal investigation unit I asked if he was a CA officer. He would not answer questions nor could he say what company he was from.

I'm tired of these calls. This guy Mike Foster keeps on calling me and wasting my minutes on my phone. They have nothing better to do than try to scare people into paying them i confirmed this was a scam so dont pay them a cent and tell them to f--- off. I dont answer calls with private number anymore.

One leg of this scam has been shut down:

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

Consumers across the country report that they're getting telephone calls from people trying to collect on loans the consumers never received or on loans they did receive but for amounts they do not owe. Others are receiving calls from people seeking to recover on loans consumers received but where the creditors never authorized the callers to collect for them. So what's the story?

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation's consumer protection agency, is warning consumers to be on the alert for scam artists posing as debt collectors. It may be hard to tell the difference between a legitimate debt collector and a fake one. Sometimes a fake collector may even have some of your personal information, like a bank account number. A caller may be a fake debt collector if he:

is seeking payment on a debt for a loan you do not recognize;
refuses to give you a mailing address or phone number;
asks you for personal financial or sensitive information; or
exerts high pressure to try to scare you into paying, such as threatening to have you arrested or to report you to a law enforcement agency.

If you think that a caller may be a fake debt collector:
Ask the caller for his name, company, street address, and telephone number. Tell the caller that you refuse to discuss any debt until you get a written "validation notice." The notice must include the amount of the debt, the name of the creditor you owe, and your rights under the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
If a caller refuses to give you all of this information, do not pay! Paying a fake debt collector will not always make them go away. They may make up another debt to try to get more money from you.

Stop speaking with the caller. If you have the caller's address, send a letter demanding that the caller stop contacting you, and keep a copy for your files. By law, real debt collectors must stop calling you if you ask them to in writing.

Do not give the caller personal financial or other sensitive information. Never give out or confirm personal financial or other sensitive information like your bank account, credit card, or Social Security number unless you know whom you're dealing with. Scam artists, like fake debt collectors, can use your information to commit identity theft – charging your existing credit cards, opening new credit card, checking, or savings accounts, writing fraudulent checks, or taking out loans in your name.

Contact your creditor. If the debt is legitimate – but you think the collector may not be – contact your creditor about the calls. Share the information you have about the suspicious calls and find out who, if anyone, the creditor has authorized to collect the debt.

Report the call. Contact the FTC and your state Attorney General's office with information about suspicious callers. Many states have their own debt collection laws in addition to the federal FDCPA. Your Attorney General's office can help you determine your rights under your state's law.>

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt076.shtm

You are probably part of there scam company!!!

This is not scam because off I got all the document as well recipt now. I am filling well

Give it up scammer. The people on this site are way smarter than you will ever be.

But we love hearing from you that this site is making it hard to trick victims out of money on the phone. That means it's working and your flthy scam isn't!

LOL better get back to the boiler room now!

This guy, "Mike Foster" keeps calling me from 707-520-7535 and asking to speak with me.  States he is from the Department of Criminal Justice (that's a college course, dumba$$) and that I've committed fraud and will go to PRISON if I do not sent them over $2000 via a pre-paid Visa card from Wal-Mart.  This morning, he called my cell phone 12 times & then called my cell phone another 8 times just 20 minutes ago.  I informed him that I was on to his little scam and would file a police report.  He called back so I've started answering the phone various different businesses and catch phrases.  "Mike Foster" starts to stutter and yell and then hangs up.  File a complaint with the Attorney General's office.