917-383-8718

Why is it that all of these scams use people that have such thick accents that you can't hardly understand what they are saying half the time? I tried to explain that I had not taken out any loan the person just got nasty. The scary thing about this whole ordeal is that they had all of my personal information including my ssn.

I spoke to my attorney and she said if they are calling you at work it is illegal and that record or document everytime they call. If they left you a message on your voice mail save it!! You can sue them for harassing you at work. Also if they are from the Attorney General Office they know the rules about contacting you at work.

person named shawn martin, having heavy Indian accent claiming that i took a loan....
scammer,i've reported them to the attorney general...and friends if you receive any phone call from this no then contact NYPD at 800-577-8477

I got call from same person with thick heavy accent claming that his name is Sean Martin. He had my Dan which is really scary. I'm not calling them back. I have a phone blocker on my phone now.

So I contacted the nypd about the phone calls I've been getting and they also told me that its a scam. I also know that the scammer, posing as a police officer cannot do anything to me as it would be illegal for them to attempt such a thing. So I'm going to my local police and let them know what is going on. This is bs.

So I contacted the nypd about the phone calls I've been getting and they also told me that its a scam. I also know that the scammer, posing as a police officer cannot do anything to me as it would be illegal for them to attempt such a thing. So I'm going to my local police and let them know what is going on. This is bs.

Recieved a phone call from this number threatening me of arrest and not explaining why they were calling.

I  got  a call  from this   same  number   but this  guy  said  Officer  Mike Peterson.  I am  tired of these  people

Received call from 1-917-383-8718 (guy with thick accent) wanting to speak to Brian Glenn.  There is no one at my number by this name and never has been.  He wanted to know my name and I told him it was none of his business and I was going to report him.  (Our phones are registered with Do Not Call.)  Have received calls several months ago asking for Brian Glenn and claiming to be collection agency.  Don't know who this could possibly be, so reporting to Do Not Call.  I called the number and guy says "Central Investigation of Finance, Brooklyn, NY. Apt, Kings County Road, Apt 14".

I may have got the most unsettling of calls from this number so far.  A caller with a foreign sounding accent called my wifes phone asking for Linda,Brenda or Melanie.  When my wife said they had the wrong number he proceeded to interrogate her about who she was, luckily she didn't give him anything and hung up.

Then he called back and I answered.

He proceeded to tell me that he was looking for his girlfriend and had paid $50 online to get this number.  I told him its just me and my wife at this number he's got the wrong one.  He then proceeded to tell me that my "Wife had a very sweet voice..."

I JUST GOT A CALL FROM THESE PEOPLE AS WELL. THEY KEEP CALLING MY CELL PHONE AND MY OFFICE PHONE. THIS IS A PROBLEM FOR ME AT WORK. MY MESSAGES ALSO GO INTO MY SUPERIOR'S MESSAGES. THEY DONT NEED THESE MESSAGES CLOGGING UP MY BOX. I SIMPLY HUNG UP. WHEN THEY CALL BACK I WILL TELL THIS MAN I WILL REPORT HIM. THEY DID THIS TO ME LAST SUMMER, SAME PEOPLE WITH THICK HEAVY ACCENTS TALKING INAPPROPRIATELY. I TOLD THEM LAST SUMMER I REPORTED THEM AND THEY STOPPED CALLING ME.

been recieving these calls about i owing money. he says his name is Shawn Martin , then i get a call from this same number saying that he was with the nypd and for me to call because they were going to issuer an arrest warrant, needlees to say its the same idiot shawn martin, nice try

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

Same thing, this guy you can barely understand says he is from the NYPD and I am to be arrested if I don't pay up. Just ignored the call but he called again.

HAD THE SAME NUMBER THAT CALLED ME SAID HE WAS OFFICER MIKE PETERSON WITH A HEAVY INDIA ACCENT AND THAT IT HAD TO DO  WITH A LEGAL MATTER AND I WOULD BE IN A LEGAL MESS

Hey.. plz stop wat the heck is this... this is my number... who's using my number...? im gonna complain now....

Someone at the above number dialed me 6 times in the past 10 minutes.  They did NOT leave a message on my machine.  If I don't know who you are, and you don't tell me who you are, I'm NOT talking to you.

I am getting calls from a Mike Peterson or Davidson with a thick accent. It was very hard to hear him. He threatened me to have me arrested if I do not call back.  He has called 3 times in the last 10 min.  I received calls from a different number yesterday. Do not answer the calls.

mr. muhammad-lol ; )-  thick accent demanding payment for "online loan" im behind on.says his name is david miller from american credit bureau  917-383-8718  7calls in 7mins....HANG UP & TELL HIM YOUR RECORDING CALL & CALLING COPS FOR HARRASMENT

this mike petersen must have a lot of job's,he say's he is from american credit bueeau 917 383 8718 and  he has a lawsuit against my ssn ,how in the heck they have all the info about that.
he called my number one's as
'shawn white
' and then as
' mike petersen'
that guy is busy as hell, i hope they get him soon.