818-337-3051

i just called them and called nathan a piece of [***] and he told me to shut my mother fu**ing mouth you as*hole bahahaha.. they are stupid

called me 20 times left vm and called me a [***] and [***] and i would die for not paying it back i am reporting it to the fbi as we speck i have it on recording and all they are looking for this [***] he has all our info down to improtent info call and get frude flags on your cridet

I just got a call form them too! Did they really balcklist your SS#?? Thats what they are threating me with!

Been getting calls from 818-337-3057, they first called my phone, and I told them if they were legit to send something in the mail, even though I knew we didn't owe them any money.  So they have started calling my husbands cell and saying the same thing, finally got through to someone and I told him that if we really did owe money I wanted it in writing and with a complete breakdown as to what it was...he started yelling and saying..."You don't tell me what to do!"  Then hung up the phone.  We have had in the past something similar happen to us and tried to get my in-laws to pay, and they almost did, thinking they forgot to pay something and I stopped them and did research and found out they were scammers!

my wife just got that call from 8183373051 two hours ago we new immediately that it was a scam. What can we do. We are already looking getting our bank information changed. Would there be anything we can do about our social security number

My wife got a call by a person named david cooper and told her she owes money 4 a loan never given to her he siad if not paid she b goin to jail tht day she sent thum 5 10.37 finding out it was a scam after  
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i got a call on 1/27/2012 from david and like all of u was threatened with with arrest, public embarasement, my child being put in custody, jail time, and 5k in fees if i did not pay. i have taken a payday loan before but the loan is in good standing. because i was in fear of my life being ruined i actually paid $510.37. yesterday 2/16/2012 i get a call from a different number 626-466-0143 stating the same thing with the same company. well that raised a big red flag. the guy said his name was patrick stone said i owed $290.00 but was willing to settle for $210.00. this time i check my bank records and called my bank. no record of either was found and they let me know that my current loan is in good standing. i then called the police and filed a complaint and gave them all the info i had on both companies including addresses. i am a hard working single mom living from pay check to pay check who tried to make christmas happen for my child. i think this is a shame that your info can bought or stolen and then you get taken advantage of. please dont fall for this people and report this to your local authorities. i also ask for everyones prayers as i am only one pay check away from being homeless.

Something happened to me has anyone ever been arrested from these guys the guys name was Nathan Rice in california

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

My son just was at work when he received a call from "Mr. Cooper" and called me immediately...I sensed it was a scam and when I called Mr. Cooper, he demanded to speak to my son only.  The threat included having an arrest warrant issued within two hours if my son did not provide them with "gift card payment from Walgreen in the excess of 700.00)  I instructed my son to ask him for the case number and address of the courthouse the case had been filed, Mr. Cooper then became very irate.  He didn't believe me when I informed him that my daughter was a law enforcement and my vowing to hunt him down for harrassing and attempting to extort money from my children.  We notified the police immediately and called the idiot while the detective was here...Mr. Cooper managed to upset the detective who then  also promised to shut him down.  I called Mr. Cooper back and told him he was an idiot because he was actually speaking to a detective.  I later contacted my other children and informed them of this scam and provided his phone number...I also posted his name and number on Facebook and invited anyone to give him a call.  I contacted my brother who is a well known Deejay and he gladly offered up the number and name to his listeners.  I called Mr Cooper and chastised him for answering my call again and then told him that I would NOT stop calling him until he was shut down.  My advice, find some teens and pass his number..post it on your Facebook page...harrass him just as he has harressed others.

Sundress

Nice Idea to harrass him.. but these ppl are scammer they change thier number like guls change thier outfit, but goodluck I am with you and will harrash him til he changes his number. And anyone come accross new number do share it

Russell Miller (attorney) called today and threatened me with legal action on payday loans. He had David Cooper call back and threaten me with arrest if I did not send them $652.00 today

I have received calls as well as emails from these people saying I will be going to court as there is an affidavit for me and I will have consequences as I supposedly got a loan and did not pay it this  is cash usa.