707-520-7535

I got a call from these people at work and when I told them I knew it was a scam they laughed.  Told him I had reported them to the FBI he wanted to know if I knew what the I stood for.  I told him I did and asked if he did he laughed some more.

I received calls today from 895-659-8794 stating that the company needs my retail lawyer's contact information because they have a fraud case against me. The gentleman said he is part of a financial fraud task force. When I asked what it was about he switched me to his supervisor, James Cody. He did not give me much information but said I could call back at 707-520-7535 ext. 169 to pay today before they file with local court. Then called again and when I said I need the phone number of the company that I supposedly owe and was not doing anything until I find out what it is about, they got crappy and said my benefits would be taken. I said "Whatever, I'm not paying for something I have no information about."

Just ignore them. It's a scam.  I have the same Indian guy calling me and leaving messages. The more I ignore him the more frustrated he becomes.  He knows he is not getting a dime from me!

i have been harassed by this company "Fraud Prevention Unit" stating that i had a court case pending and after about 10 calls from this company i started recieving calls from "000" and Unknown with them stating that they wanted to "[***]" me, and asked me to come to california. when i asked what number to call when i got there he stated that he'd call me. when i questioned him about the 707-520-7535 he stated that was his company number and that he was in his bedroom. i am so frustrated to the point im going to change my number A.S.A.P

hey i'm an actual bill collector, and let me say "WOW", i can know understand why most consumers choose not to pay there bill. These guys no nothing about the FTC, FDCPA, or local state laws. They actually gave me some ones bank info. SSN, DOB, and email addy. WTF! its criminals like this that make is harder for us hard working (Americans) who actually follow the law and proper procedures. ( I GOT IT ALL ON RECORDING, I WILL PUT THE RECORDING ONLINE SOON). i'll put recording on youtube. will send link to it on another message.

P.S.
this foreigner name Jimmy Erving aka Alex Watson, aka John Thompson, said he is working under financial  fraud prevention dept. directly under President Obama.LMFAO !!!! FYI, most creditors or any one holding p.o.a. on a debt will seek suet on a payday advance, just not cost effective.

another number for these dumb [***] is 760-269-4172. Please disregard my spelling errors in last post, i put it up while i was on the phone w/these frauds and didn't spell check.

SCAM...you are a troll.   The people calling are ILLEGAL SCAMMERS!!!

I have been getting this messages from this number saying that they will file a law suit.

I am receiving calls from this number and they are posing as A Michelle Smith with the Department of Criminal Justice, this is a scam, they say that they are trying to collect a debt but they will not tell us who they are collecting for, and the debt does not exist. The are now calling my HR dept at work and they said not to worry, but this is the type of thing that we are supposed to be protected against in the United States. Harassment is against the law.

We are a business and they keep calling, we have reported them to police and they keep calling, are not adhearing to not harrasing us.

Andrew Jhonson from this number has been harrasing us requesting out tax ID number.  They do not identify themselves as any company.  They are rude, used of bad lenguage, voice sounds from a different country.

We want these people to stop the harrasment.

I got a call from this number just today.

I was fooled once just about a month ago and was taken for $385.  

This time I told them that I knew it was a scam and to not call anymore.   I do have a payday loan but I know that is in good standing.

The department that they said they were from was Fraud Prevention.  Saying that the withdrawal from m bank account was declined.  Well I know that the PayDay Loan is getting paid because I check my bank statement all the time.

I reported this new number to the state attorney general.  Not much they can do but at least the number will be on their record.

We got a few calls today from some guy who sounded like he was calling from India and claimed to be with the Justice Department. With this kind of claim, they're looking at a call from the FBI and I would expect a felony conviction. It's illegal to falsely represent yourself as a law enforcement official.

Yeah, that "Andrew Johnson" a**hole called me at home on 5/10, and I repeatedly hung up on him (he's not the first scammer I've had dealings with); when he kept calling back, I just set the phone down in front of me and let him talk to the air til he hung up.  Then, he called my work.  Unfortunately for him I'd already told my boss about all this crap.  When this guy called, he kept interrupting a conference call, so my boss put his system on night mode, and got the stupid message.  When I went back to work (I was off that day), my boss played it for me so I could verify for him that it's the same s**t.  When I told him that it was in fact the same garbage scamming, my boss said that if the guy calls my work again, they'll tell him that I'm either not there or they fired me (neither would be true).  Great bosses rule!

Just as an FYI, everyone, I have attempted something that you might find interesting:

I have been reading through these posts almost daily for over a year now.  This whole scam irritated me in a unique way for some reason, and I have been hell-bent to try anything and everything I can to help stop anyone else being a victim or give them any more funding for whatever ilicit purposes they are involved in.

I have chosen numbers from random posts on this forum from other people.  Keep in mind that none of these numbers had ever contacted me!  I called back and started asking questions, acted a little bit worried and when they asked my name, I gave them a fake one (said I was Chuck U. Farley, which the humor was completely lost on them).  I would then hang up.  LITERALLY WITHIN 30 MINUTES I started receiving calls for Chuck U. Farley about a warrant for my arrest, a huge bill for a payday loan that wasn't paid, check fraud charges, etc.  Chuck U. Farley doesn't even exist, the name was an invention of my imagination, but they sucked onto it like leaches thinking it was yet another person they could scam out of money.  As soon as they had a phone number & name, a bad debt of outrageous porportions "magically appeared".

On that note, I agree that we seem to be getting nowhere with assistance from our own government.  I have filed complaints with every branch I can think of (& some new ones I found online).  There has been no response, action or resolution.  I have resolved to just keep trying to help as many as I can from sending their hard earned money, and for myself start seeing the humorous side of it all.  Here is a previous post I listed.  It may give you some good ideas on how to deal with them, but at the very least it should add a little humor to your day:

"Here's some more ideas to add in there:

They have started in with a new number now (760-269-4169), so the game begins again!  This time when the guy identified himself as an "officer", I told him he has called a crime scene and I started interrogating him.  He hung up after some stuttering and stammering.  Anyone who did not see my last post, here it is again with some more creative ideas on how to deal with these idiots:

"OK, first off, everyone CALM DOWN and don’t freak out about these guys.  No matter what they say or what they threaten, they CAN’T do anything to you.  I know every one of us has tried filing reports with law enforcement, FTC, FBI, ic3, etc.  It doesn’t seem to work, because these guys aren’t even in the USA.  So take a deep breath, relax and don’t let them ruffle your feathers.

Now, I started getting these calls about a year ago.  I have personally used all of the tactics below, and they do stop calling me for about 6 months…so the way I figure it, a little time out of my day to give them back a taste of their own medicine is worth it for 6 months of peace and quiet.  Keep in mind, as well, every minute you spend screwing with them on the phone is a minute they are NOT able to scam someone else.  (And the only way they will ever stop is if nobody pays them any money ever again!)  And now for the fun part—how to screw with them back.  I will start with the easiest and move up the line with the more time consuming:

If you have no time to mess with them:
a.    Just don’t pick up the line.  Let it go to voicemail and delete the message.
b.    Pick up the line and immediately hang up.  Keep doing it until they stop.
c.    Pick up the line and use an air horn or police whistle blown straight into the mouthpiece of the phone.  (I personally like the canned airhorn the best.)
d.    If they call while you are driving, turn the radio up as loud as possible and answer the line on speakerphone.  Don’t say anything, just let them listen to the blasting music.  Heavy metal music works best, but I personally have a CD with Star Spangled Banner on it, so I play that as loud as I can.  Just leave the line open with the music blasting until they hang up.

If you have a little more time to mess with them:
a.    Ask if they are related to the deceased (insert your name here as the “deceased”) or just a family friend, because “the viewing of the body if for family only, but the memorial service is open to everyone.”  Ask if they would like directions to the funeral.
b.    Simply tell them that you have read all about their scam on the internet & seen it on the news on TV, so you aren’t paying anything.  Don’t listen to any response, just hang up on them after saying this.
c.    Use this one only if you are willing to be as crude as they are:  Using the name they gave you (i.e., “Officer Mike Taylor” was the last one I got), say, “Is the this THE Officer Mike Taylor I read about on the internet?  Is it true what the posts online say, that you have such a small d**k that even camels won’t have sex with you?”  Then hang up on them.
d.    (For this one, I must first apologize to PETA and all vegans, but it highly offends the scammers because they consider cows to be divine beings.)  Tell them you don’t have time to speak with them, because you work at a slaughter house and you have over 100 cattle you need to “kill off” before the end off the day.  Then hang up on them.
e.    Are you good with theatrics?  Then try this one…it was actually highly effective for me:  Put on your deepest, scariest, growliest voice and just whisper into the phone over and over, “I command the demons to come for you, I command the demons to come for you, I command the demons to come for you…”.  Just keep whispering it over and over until they hang up.  I think this one worked well because they are quite superstitious.
f.    If you know a foreign language, answer the phone in it and just keep talking in unintelligible phrases.  The more obscure the language, the better.  Don’t know a foreign language?  Pig Latin seems to work just as effectively.
g.    Ask if they are calling from the convenience store, and can they give you last night’s winning lottery numbers, because you are sure you have won.  For any response they give to it, just keep yelling over and over, “I won! I won!”
h.    When you answer the phone, ask them where your pizza is and tell them because they didn’t get it to you in the “30 minutes”, you’re not paying for it.  Hang up.
i.    Tell them you are at work right now, but to call you back on your “home” phone, and give them this number: 202-835-0778.  (This is the scam and fraud reporting division number at the FBI.)  Hang up.

If you are REALLY p***ed off, and have plenty of time to screw with them:

a.    Go on to Craig’s List and post an ad in the wanted section or services section  saying you are looking for a payday loan company because you need a loan.  Ask they call you right away.  List the scammer’s name and phone number as the contact information.  (This sends the scum-sucking bottom feeders off to call the other scum sucking bottom feeders…LOL)
b.    Go online and look for every free daily horoscope, free insurance quote, free mortgage lending, etc., and click on the “have an agent contact me” link.  Type in the scammer’s name and phone number.  Viola!  Now they will get flooded with telemarketers as well.
c.    If you would like to blow off steam, and have no problem with swearing, just keep calling them over and over pretending you have Tourette’s Syndrome by just screaming obscenities in the phone until they hang up.  This works pretty good in the car, because no one else can hear you and it is a good tension reliever.
d.    Log onto these payday loan sites and enter all of the scammers’ information on it.  This way they might even wind up on their own list!
e.    (Do NOT attempt this one unless you have state of the art spyware & virus protection, and even then, you still are taking a risk):  Go into your spam folder on your computer.  Find every email you can about “you won millions of dollars” or “the Nigerian lottery” or something to that effect.  Send it back with all of the scammers’ contact information.
f.    Research for the phone numbers to both local and national TV news stations “breaking news desk”.  Again, tell the scammer on the phone to call you at your “work number” and give the number to the news station’s phone number.  (Hopefully, if the news stations get enough of these calls, they will start airing more stories about it, reaching more people and reduce the number of victims that fall for this.)

Again, before sending money to ANYONE, stop. Think.  Do you have any paperwork showing you owe money?  If not, ask for paperwork.  If they refuse to send it, they are scammers.  A real collection agency will always: 1. provide paperwork; 2. never yell or cuss at you; 3. never require you to pay first before receiving paperwork; 4. never identify themselves as an officer of law enforcement; 5. never threaten you with jail, arrest or physical harm.

Oh yeah this guy. This guy calls and leaves a message on my phone ending the message with "God Bless"...... Huh?, really? That sounds like a real business message. Oh yeah, he says his name is a good ol American name like Mike Smith or something in the thickest Indian accent I have ever heard. So I figure what the hell, lets see where this goes. So "Mike" as it were, tells me that I'm in trouble and federal charges are being drawn up against me over bank fraud and all kinds of fun white collar style crime. So I stop the guy and tell him he's full of [***], cause I work for the government and if I owe money, they'll just take it and that I would of heard about this a long time ago from my boss and then hung up on him. He called a few more times after that but he always got the samething from me. I even told him it would be good to start his call with " this phone call is being monitered for quality assurance". The last day he called me, I really meesed with him, I think I hurt his feelings or something. He got so pissed off, that he hung up, and called me right back from a blocked number ( like im not going to recognize his voice) and tells me that he wants to f?$k me, i guess he thought it was funny, I thought he was just [***]. So he does this over and over like 10 or 15 times in a row ( I must have been the last call of the day or something) finaly I tell him " of course you do, Im sexy". He hasn't called since, I miss messing with my little scammer.