888-201-6971

he said he was from the federal legislative and he was filing federal charges

This is a scam.  I asked him to fax me the documentation.  I'm waiting for it to report it.

some one from this number called me as well and said that they were from the federal legislative and he was filing federal charges as well. When I asked them what they were filing they couldnt give me the information and need to pass me on to the "officer" When that person came on the phone his name was John Mathew and he sounded like he was straight out of India! When I asked what they were filling he switched his story and said that he was trying to verify my personal information for a money loan. I have never applied for a loan and was freaked out and when I tried to ask more information from him, he hung up on me. Every time I try calling back the number I get a busy signal now! This is a SCAM, dont freak out and think that you are in some kind of serious trouble because they say they are from the federal legislative department, it is all false!

some one called my work and said the same information about a federal legislative company and that i was in serous trouble, when I called back I received a voice message just saying FRAUD that was it and to leave a message, I left a message that I was an Fraud Lawyer and that I would like them to call me back regarding harassing phone calls, I have yet to hear back from them.

They called me office which i work at a hospital, the man gave his name as Albert Smith that he is from the Federal Legislatice department that i needed to hold while he connected me to his supervisor, he came back to the line and stated his supervisor is busy that i needed to call 1-888-201-6971 right back, so i called and they asked for my last name i gave it then he asked me if i knew i had an civil suites in maryland, i stated no then he proceeded to read of my SS number and i told him no it wasnt right and he hung up on me. This is a scam but i would still get fraud protection due to they know your Social Security number change bank accounts everything!!!!

People from this number have been calling me repeatedly for about a week now. When I tell them to quit calling me and I hang up, they will call about 20 times back to back when I don't answer. I have asked them directly what company they work for, and they always say Federal Legislative Department. This last time they added "State Attorney's Office". I told them that I KNOW that is not true and that I want to know the name of the company. They won't reveal it. BUT they do have my name and SSN. IF this is a debt collector, everyone should know that they are VIOLATING the Fair Debt Colletion Act. They are NOT allowed to harass you and they are NOT allowed to impersonate any branch of the government. If this continues, I AM going to hire an attorney to investigate and file harassment charges. If anyone has any other information on this phone number, please email me at tigrbtrfly@gmail.com

I have been told the same thing that there calling from federal legislation and that i or my attorney need to call him back. Everytime they call he uses a diffrent name. Can't give me any information but keepa harrassing me. They repeadly hang up and call back i swear they must have automatic redial calls 20-25 times ina 10 min period.

https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-310-598-1752

This scam has been going on for well over a year, now and has been recognized as such by the BBB:

Chicago, IL – August 5, 2009 – The Better Business Bureau is issuing an alert about phony debt collectors that are calling consumers nationwide and claiming that they have defaulted on a payday loan and will be arrested if they don’t pay immediately. Claiming to be lawyers, the scammers say they are with the “Financial Accountability Association” or the “Federal Legislation of Unsecured Loans” and are equipped with a disconcerting amount of personal information about their potential victims.

“Because the scammers have so much information about potential victims, the BBB is concerned that this may be the result of a data breach,” said Steve J. Bernas, president & CEO of the Better Business Bureau serving Chicago and Northern Illinois. “Thousands of people may have had their personal information compromised, and given the scammers’ tactics, it appears that those who have previously used payday loan services could be particularly at risk.”

According to reports received by the BBB and posted online, the scammers accuse the victim of defaulting on a payday loan and claim they are being sued. The phony debt collector threatens that, if the victim doesn’t pay as much as $1,000 immediately via wire or by providing bank account or credit card numbers, he or she will be arrested and extradited to California within the hour to stand trial. The scammers often may have the victim’s Social Security, old bank account numbers or driver’s license numbers as well as home addresses, employer information and even the names of personal friends and professional references.

The BBB offers the following advice to consumers if they receive a suspicious telephone call about an outstanding debt:
* Ask the debt collector to provide official documentation in writing which substantiates the debt.
* Do not provide or confirm any bank account, credit card or other personal information over the phone until you have confirmed the legitimacy of the call.
* Review recent copies of your credit reports to ensure that the alleged debt is not affecting your credit. Consumers can do this for free once every 12 months, and can find more information here: http://www.ftc.gov/freereports 
* Under the Federal Trade Commission's Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, debt collectors may not harass, oppress, or abuse any person while attempting to collect a debt.
* A debtor may be contacted between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. only and can be contacted at work unless instructed not to.
* File a complaint with the FTC online if the caller is abusive, uses threats or otherwise violates federal telemarketing laws.
* File a complaint with BBB online at www.bbb.org if you believe a debt collector is trying to scam you.

http://www.thinkglink.com/article/2009/08/06/ ... eading-says-bbb

https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-618-5897

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. They 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 gobblygook phrases like "We are downloading warrants against you" or "We are filing an affidavit against you." Another trademark phrase is to threaten the consumer with something like this ridiculous phrase: "If you don't pay then only God can help you."

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, Hopkins Law Office, United Legal Processing, Morgan Associates, United Pay Services, National Processing, White Collar Crime Unit 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.

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.)

The bottom line is, these are criminals trying to steal your money.

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) 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, lawyers, officers of the court or bankers, or if they threatened you with arrest, be sure to include that information in your report.

2) File a complaint online with The Federal Trade Commission at https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en

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) The caller placed the call under a Texas area code. Even though the caller ID was probably spoofed or they're using VoIP technology to hide the fact that they're really calling from overseas, you should also file a complaint with the Texas Attorney General at http://www.oag.state.tx.us/consumer/complain.shtml 

5) File a complaint your state's attorney general, the contact information for whom is at www.naag.org

6) 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.

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
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-858-244-0444
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-954-678-9724
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-610-571-3252
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-310-909-8245

I JUST HAD THIS EXACT THING HAPPEN TO ME YESTERDAY.  SO I CALLED AND THEY HAD SO MUCH INFORMATION ON MY HUSBAND.  SO THIS MORNING, I WENT ON LINE AND DID THE RESEARCH.  I CALLED THE NUMBER BACK AND TOLD THEM I WANT OFFICIAL DOCUMENTATION PROVIDING THIS LOAN MY HUSBAND OWES ON.  JOHN MATTHEWS IS THE PERSON I'M ALWAYS BEING TRANSFERRED TO.

I reported all of this to the Federal Trade Commission already.  You may want to contact your State Attorney General's office and report it, in addition to the FTC and the BBB.

Of course, these scam artists never sent the documentation to me, so now they're calling my references.  I called them back today.  Here is the information they left, when the phone was picked up, he answered "This is Eric."

Steve Edwin
Federal Legislative Department
1-888-201-6971
Case # 513174015

I asked again for documentation about this account and told him not to you any of my information anymore, he talked over me, and finally called me "impossible" and hung up.

I reported my banking account compromised, as I could not verify how much information they had.  Just to be on the "safe" side.  Whatever that means these days.

Hello Everyone,

 This is Chris,We understand your concern where you are coming from.give us your number and your mailing address with your file number so that we can send you each & every documentation which you are looking for.

 Getting call plenty of times in couple of minutes,Yes why? Because its very panicky if a person is taking a loan & not paying back moreover blaming the loan company cant even resist, if you guys are so sure that you haven't taken any loan,why you all are afraid to deal this in Legal way.

With Regards,

Chris

Didn't you used to be Jason?  It's Apoo isn't it, really?

Yeah like we're gonna send you information. You're not even a collector, just a criminal. Each and every documentation we're looking for is the arrest warrant for YOU!

since they already have the rest of our info, it should be pretty easy for them to send us info in the mail, especially seeing that they already have our home adresses and phone numbers.

YES THEY CALLED ME TOO, SAID I OWED THEM MONEY THEY DEPOSITED IN MY ACCOUNT, HE TOLD ME HIS NAME WAS DEAN SMITH, I TOLD HIM HE WAS A LIE, HE CALLED MY JOB BACK TO BACK IN 10MIN (WOW) I TOLD HIM TO GO STRAP ON A BOMB. THIS IS A SAD THING TO HAVE PEOPLE KNOW YOUR PERSONAL INFO. I CHANGED ALL MY BANK INFO AND CALLED THE BBB AND THEY GAVE ME THIS SITE (WOW) WOW) WOW UNBELIEVABLE

I just recieved a phone call for these people today on my work phone and my cell phone.  The guy said his name was Bruce Payne and he was with the federal legislative dept of Florida.  I was unsure who the caller was when it showed up on my caller id, so I let it go to voicemail.  I listened to the message and had a thought that this was a scam.  I told my friend about it and he agreed that it probably was and to do a reverse search of the phone number.  I also searched for the federal legislative dept of florida, but didn't come up with any agency with that exact name.

I recieved a call from this same number, Dean Smith called left a message, was very distorted and I had to listen very closely to make out the telephone number to call back, Once I called the number back I got a person by the assumed name of Henry,(No Last name) he informed me that I had a loan that the cash advance company had decided to file federal fraud charges, when I asked what company he indicated a (Cash Advance US) Knowing that I have never had a cash advance loan and would never pay 518% intrest on a loan, I have notified the FBI and they have informed me to contact the FCC and file a complaint with on the FBI.GOV website. Unbelievable, now I have (while writing this received a phone call from an unknown number wanting to give me a loan of 1500 dollars. But the voice is the same as the guy named Henry that just called wanting me to pay 1500 dollars or be arrested. This is a phishing scam and I would advise people not to reveal anything more than their name, and maybe the city that they live in, if they try to verify your SSN no matter what number they have or give you always tell them it is incorrect and inform them that you are reporting their number to the FBI or local law enforcement. I would also follow up and get a case number so in the event that your security is compromised you will have a report for fraud paperwork when you need to file paperwork with your bank or credit agencies.

Hello Everyone,

      First of all this is to bring to your notice that we are working hard to trace your IP.
Because we are very firm that you are shooting this kind of blogs on the internet to make and feel people negative impression about our company.
But for your information's we are registered with FTC and BBB.
And further more We advise to go ahead to the attorney general office and inquire about our company.
If you got guts then call us on same number which you have and give us your information's where you are located and your phone no.
which we are demanding since a long time.


With Regards,

Chris

Ohhhh, the big bad bottom feeder is threatening to try to do something illegal in order to get more $$$$. Bring it on. I'll give you a little help... My IP address is 127.0.0.1   Trace that if you can. If you have half a brain cell in your whole department you'll recognize it right away.

Jason? Chris? Apoo! Hi Apoo!

Since it's difficult to trace IP addresses from Pakistan or Afghanistan, where you are, I'll save you the trouble ... my IP address is 127.0.0.1.

There, all you had to do was ask. I showed you mine, what's yours???

You are a bunch of crooks. The posts you make here are simply HILARIOUS. When you go to jail, maybe you could write comic books to pass the time. Caricatures of Allah maybe LOL?

I had a similar experience as you.  They called on Monday the 14th but two other people had already called a month ago.  The person came on the line and asked for me and rudely stated they wanted to speak to my supervisor.  I told them they can speak to my attorney but not my supervisor the person continued to ask for my supervisor in a rude loud tone so I hung up on him.  I then put my phone on call forward and it just keep ringing back about 5 to 10 times in a row.  I just sat there in disbelief listening to the phone beep each time they called back like someone else said they had speed dial or something.  I called my attorney again and I gave the callers name and number to my attorney to call them.  My attorney said they called and stated they were representing me but when they started to ask questions about my alleged debt they refused to answer the questions and hung up.  
I had to get my supervisor involved because I can't keep forwarding my calls to voicemail.  My supervisor called and asked for the callers supervisor (Henry) and told him who she was and not to call me anymore.  So far so good they haven't called back since she called them this morning but that doesn't mean they won't try.