941-961-8518

REPORT THESE CROOKS - THEY ARE FAKE DEBT COLLECTORS!  

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.    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.
2.    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 or lawyers, officers of the court or bankers, be sure to include that information in your report.
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.    File a complaint your state's attorney general, the contact information for whom is at www.wvago.gov
5.    File a complaint online with The Federal Trade Commission at https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en
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.)

A very rude call cameinto me on 8-20-2009 from the phone number 941-961-8518. The woman had a strong accent and asked me about the lawsuit I had against myself? !!!!!RED FLAG . I asked her for information such as what company she was with and who her immediate supervisor was for my verification purposes, She began to curse me out. I hung up on her and she called me a total of 18 times from 6 p.m. until 6:45 p.m. I truly believe this is some sort of a scam. Be Careful.

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This is DEFINITELY a scam. Lamet has everything you need to know about this criminal overseas operation, as well as who to report them to.

I just read this on another website. This is very interesting stuff.
NY LAW on August 4, 2009
Please spread this. It's important that people are educated on this scam as it has begun to become popular. This particular group began in 2007. The have used over a hundred different phone numbers and at least a dozen different company/agency names. I will list a few below. They are from Asia Pacific and have never even stepped foot on American soil. However, they are terrorizing and scamming Americans out of their money. Even if you did have a payday loan and have not paid it back, they are not authorized to collect that debt. They claim that they work for/with Cashnet, however they do not. They have an inside source in which they paid for applicant's information that has been submitted for loans. So whether you applied for a loan and never got it, or if you applied and did get it, your information has been sold to these scam artists. DO NOT PAY THEM, and do not entertain them. Once they feel that they've scared you, they target you. If they conclude that they won't be getting any money from you, they drop you and move on to the next target. I hope this information helps. I've been investigating this group for quite some time now and thanks to these posts I'm able to continue tracking them. I've worked diligently to have them stopped, however I've only been able to get them to stop using the same phone numbers and company/agency names.

Some of their aliases:
Officer Andy Brown, Randy Brown, Darren Stifler, Ken Stiller, Roy Campbell, Sean Miller

Some of their company/agency aliases:
United Processing of Law
Bahamas Marketing Group (BMG)
Department of Law & Investigations
Oakview Law Offices
*** they sometime claim to be police officers, paralegals and "representatives of law"***


Some of their phone numbers (listed are the most recent. As I stated they have used over a hundred different numbers and cannot list all. Keep in mind these numbers are stolen and used through a VOIP Voice Op IP system)
646-506-9441
646-395-1276
646 -918-5364
901-328-9974
347-438-3332
5 62-286-5777
912-344-9400
408-404-3021

941-961-8518
213-231-1900

Also, you can find other numbers they've used within this thread.

Hope this helps. Remember, they are scam artists from over seas. If they were in the US they would have been shut down by the Federal Trade Commision a long time ago.

- NY Investigator
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If you think that was bad try 21 missed calls from that number and also a call at 3am i was soo pissed and i told them that I had filed a report with...and I mentioned every law enforcement agency i could think of...it worked

Today at 10:40 am EST I received a phone call from this guy informing that I was being investigated for a criminal suit on behalf of Payday loans and that I need to pay $949.00 or on Monday the police will be at my house or place of business to arrest me. What was really scary about this was he knew my: Social Security Number, address, Work number, work address, email address and bank name! I did not give this guy any money or information. I continued to argue with the guy and like another post stated he got really nasty, but I got nastier. After 25 minutes the guy hung up, I called the number back and were it persisted to ring three times and then I got the following message ' thank you for calling Verizon, The number you have reached has been changed or disconnected'. I immediately filed a report with my local serifs department.

If any one finds out who this SOB is please let me know I want to show him the true definition of the word torturer.

be glad to help you with that

Thank you very much!

I goth this same call today did they tell you that you would go too jail yhe next day if you did not pay. I try to call the number back and the phone was shut off/

I just got a call from a 941-961-8518.  The guy (David Jones) was very rude so I told him that I refuse to talk to him in that matter and to leave me a message and I hung up.  He called back and left a message stating that I owned money and if I didn't call him back in 15 minutes he would have to sheriff department out to my address arresting me and my friend. He had my address and my husband's name.  I called the number back that he left for me and it was a 661-210-4668.  Which was weird also.  It sounded like a fax.  Couldn't get through.  Never talked with the man.  He sounded like he was from India.

The charges they make may be illegal, but you need to find out if you actually have a payday loan that is outstanding.  Because they don't always operate out of the U.S., they aren't governed by our laws either.  I had one outstanding that I didn't realize hadn't been paid.  Once I paid it, they went away.

I just got a call from 941-961-8518 I did not answer this because they keep calling from differnt numbers. They even had the nerve to call me at my work number. I almost lost my job over all of these calls. The funny thing is wehn I answer they have all of my information ss#, address and etc, What tripped them up is that they quoted to me a e-mail address that I have not have for over 4 years. They were telling me I took the loan out in May of this year. When I laughed and told them that he got very rude to me and started to yell and curse at me!

The Indian guy stated " Are you laughing at me?" At that time I said yes and he started yelling louder at me so I just hung up on him.

Keeps calling I dont answer the phone

a foreign guy calls and says im being sued and he is pressing charges aainst me and that now i have to goto court on friday and it would cost me 5000.00 to settle this

So yeah this crap was ALMOST funny. I asked who he was (he spoke with a very THICK Indian accent) he responded "Tony Fox". I started laughing...that kinda made him mad. I then asked who he was with...he said "(unitelligable) Law Firm." I asked him to repeat that because I didn't understand. Then I asked him to spell it cause I still didn't get it. He couldn't even SPELL the name of this supposed Law Firm. Tell these people to go jump off a bridge and protect yourself. It's a total scam.

I have been getting calls from these people as well the numbers they are calling me from are 310-598-1752, 941-961-8518 I got calls at work and on my cell phone, I have had the numbers blocked at work and they have not called me today, but one thing that made the calls stop yesterday is when they did call my cell phone I would go outside and take the call and just argue with them and make fun of them and let them know about the research I did on the web about their SCAM.

When I got off work I called every number the called me from and keep calling them until they no longer wanted to talk to me , I call about 50 times in an hours and just would mess with them and finally the guy told me I needed to stop calling because I was calling his cell phone, I told him he should have blocked his number if he did not want it to be called, he asked me what I wanted and I told him well maybe do a job you are good at and he said what would that be….I said I hear your country needs some new suicide bombers…he hung up on me after that.

They can not do anything other than bug you, I live in Texas and CA has no control over our laws and I would not verify any information and that made them so upset so I say just mess with them, talk dirty, cause them out, when they call I did this on I put my IPOD head phone to the phone and turned it up load….

The point I am trying to make is bug them back and block your number (*67 then you number) and just mess with them. They have stopped calling me.

THEY ARE HACKERS!
They hacked PAYDAY loan websites and are contacting everyone that has ever applied for a payday loan, whether they actually recieved a loan or not.

Fake Debt Collectors – Terrorizing Consumers

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5621205&page=1


MORE ON FAKE DEBT COLLECTORS
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-9141
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/call4action/17285785/detail.html
http://www.800helpfla.com/newsletter/2008/092008.html


http://www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam.cfm
Attorney General Darrell McGraw took the extraordinary step today of warning the public about a band of scam artists making threats to consumers who allegedly obtained Internet payday loans in West Virginia and across the nation. The consumers they threaten never obtained a loan at all or paid it off years ago.

Internet payday loans are short-term loans or cash advances, usually for 14 days, made over the Internet via interactive web sites and secured by an agreement authorizing debits of the loan and all fees owed from the consumer’s checking account. These loans typically charge interest rates ranging from 600-800 APR and are unlawful in West Virginia.

The scam artists, who speak English with a foreign accent, call themselves “U.S. National Bank,” “Federal Investigation Bureau,” “United Legal Processing” and numerous other phony names. They refuse to disclose real names and addresses and are believed to be operating “off the grid” from homes, automobiles, or from off shore locations or foreign countries, including India. Since the scammers have kept themselves purposely well hidden, thus far no law enforcement agencies have succeeded in locating or shutting them down.

The scammers typically pose as law enforcement officers, investigators, lawyers, and bankers and threaten consumers that they will be arrested for “bank fraud” or other fictitious crimes unless money is wired immediately. They simultaneously scare and confuse consumers by using meaningless legalese gobbledygook phrases such as, “We are downloading warrants against you” or “We are filing an affidavit against you.” Consumers who don’t immediately fall for the scam are warned, “Only God can help you now.”

The scammers almost always call consumers at work several times a day, and tell their supervisors, “Your employee has committed fraud and is about to be arrested.” Such threats have proven unsettling even to the most savvy consumers and employers who suspect the calls are fraudulent.

Attorney General McGraw stated, “Ordinarily my office protects consumers from fraudulent activities by seeking injunctions in court. But legal action cannot be taken until the scam artists can be located. Even then, it is unlikely that the persons behind the fraudulent calls and extortionist threats would obey a court order. In this case, the consumer’s best defense is to be armed with the knowledge of the scam so that all demands for money can be resisted, despite the false but scarey threats of arrest.”

McGraw added, “Because the fraudsters make a special point of calling consumers repeatedly at work, employers must understand that the consumers are innocent victims of a criminal enterprise and cannot stop the calls from coming. I also wish to assure the citizens of West Virginia that my office will continue to do everything possible to locate and shut down the outlaw debt collectors.”

More information about this fraudulent debt collection scheme is available at the Attorney General’s website, www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam. Any consumers who have been threatened by these persons or wish to file a complaint about another consumer matter may do so by calling the Consumer Protection Hot Line, 1-800-368-8808, or by obtaining a complaint form from the Attorney General’s web site.

It's a debt collection scam. And all their threats are false and illegal.
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.    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.
2.    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 or lawyers, officers of the court or bankers, be sure to include that information in your report.
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.    File a complaint your state's attorney general, the contact information for whom is at www.wvago.gov
5.    File a complaint online with The Federal Trade Commission at https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en
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
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-310-499-9983


Scam alert: Bogus debt collectors
By Leslie McFadden • Bankrate.com
Monday, Aug. 3
Posted 2 p.m.
Bankrate reporter Leslie McFadden contributed this entry.
This scam isn't technically about credit cards, but it is scary enough to post a warning. The Better Business Bureau issued an alert today saying consumers across the country are getting phone calls from bogus debt collectors claiming default on a payday loan. Of course, the consumer needs to pay a large fee to avoid arrest -- as much as $1,000.
The caller poses as a lawyer, and may threaten extradition to face trial if the consumer doesn't pay up immediately.
What makes these calls alarming -- and perhaps convincing -- is that the perpetrators reference the consumer's personal information, such as the person's Social Security number, driver's license number, previous bank account numbers, home address -- even personal references.
"The amount of information they have is really troubling," says BBB spokeswoman Alison Southwick. She adds that the amount of data points to a possible security breach.
Spread the word to your friends and family: Don't give out personal or financial information to an unknown caller. Scammers can spoof Caller ID to display different numbers, so trust your instincts over technology.
The BBB offers these tips:
•    Ask the debt collector to provide official documentation 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.
•    File a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission online if the caller is abusive, uses threats or otherwise violates federal telemarketing laws or the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
•    File a complaint with the Better Business Bureau online if you believe a debt collector is trying to scam you.

I got a call 8/25/09 from a 941-961-8518. The lady had a strange accent and was practically yelling on the message she left stating that I needed to call back immediately or have my attorney call or I would be served on Friday at home and at work. They knew all my info. She stated if I didn't call back she said she could only wish me luck in life of prison.... Right after that she called my work number, lots of noise in background and it went from one person to another. This is really freaky glad I looked up number on internet right away. I informed Better Business Bureau and I was also told it was a scam. Notified my bank just in case they try and do anything. But don't give them any information!!!! It's a scam!!!!!! The last time they called was yesterday afternoon and the guy was yelling and I told him I had reported them and I knew it was a scam and he said well you will be arrested Friday good luck and I said well fax me something if this is correct and he hung up on me and hasn't called back!!! Thank God... Besides they all have English names for having a very strange accent. New number they are asking people to call back is 661-210-4689. Names given are: Amy Gibson, Sandy Johnson, Eric Samuels???

They called me told me that I have to be in court in my county on Monday morning said that I took a payday loan out that never got paid for. This was an Indian lady I could barely understand her. She gave me my SS number, B-day and everything said that if I didn't pay her that they would be at my mother's house on Monday if I didn't go to court and pick them up. I called my local clerk's office they said that they didn't see anything on me that I have to be in court on Monday. This is such a scam, I'm so tired of this company calling. If anyone has any advice please help.

called me and said i owed money from a payday loan and never paid back a man started to yell at me and hung up on me

I got a call from this number on my cell phone! They also called me at my place of work! This really ticks me off! If I hadn't been called last month from some [***] then I would have thought it was real now its like oh great another freakin scammer!!!!!!! As far as I am concerened they are wasting my minutes and their time because they won't get a dime out of me!!!!! Don't let these [***] get to you!!!!!