951-616-6882

asks for back card info. the police have been notified

I mean bank

Calls cell, has accent, not totally understandable,leaves message saying my name but yet not using my last name, calling from law firm, name is katrina jones, wants to hear from you or your attorney, gives number as 915-616-6882, then recites it again as 951-616-6882.  if doesn't hear from you or your attorney she can only wish you luck on what will befall you.

Did you call back?

I AM ALSO GETTING THIS MESSAGE ALSO TELLING ME THEY ARE GOING TO PRESS CRIMINAL CHARGES AND THAT I HAVE TO BE IN COURT IN CALIFORNIA ON MONDAY AT 11 AM AND NAY GOD HELP ME WHAT CAN WE DO TO STOP THESE CALLS AND EVERONES LAST NAME IS SMITH

THESE PEOPLE KEEP CALLING ME AT WORK AND AT HOME SAYING I OWE MONEY AND THAT THEY ARE GOING TO PRESS CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST ME AND I NEED AN ATTRONEY. CALLED THEM SD I NEED TO BE IN COURT IN CALIFORNIA AT 11AM ON MONDAY MORNING. TOLD THEM I WAS ON MY WAY TO POLICE STATIPN TO REPORT THEM AS FRAUD HE TOLD ME GO AHEAD AND CALL HIM FROM POLICE STATION. EVERYONE WHO HAS CONTACTED ME HAS THE LAST NAME OF SMITH IT WAS DAN SMITH AND TODAY SAMANTHA SMITH ALL WITH INDIAN ACCENTS.  THEY ALSO CALL IN ON T MOBILE CELL PHONE WITH 303 AREA CODE

but has anyone seen or had any action taken?

09/14/09 had a threatening message left saying I must return the call right away or I would be sorry.  Said to return the call to 951 616-6882

I have been getting calls from this number saying if I don't make a payment I will be arrested and they also called my job.  When I called them out and told them I knew it was a scam I was told they would come to my home and "rape" me.  I have notified police and they are looking into this, I am still getting call but now from a different number (215)279-5922. This people are sick. The police believe that they are not in this  country and are using routers.  WOW!!! what people will do to rip you off. BEWARE!!!!!!!!!

Man left message saying I have charges filed against me and If i didn't call and pay I would be arrested.  When they call it's show up private but when they leave a message the call back number was 951-616-6882.

FAKE DEBT COLLECTOR SCAM - ALL OVER INTERNET AND NEWS

file the formal complaints as outlined in the article below

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.

these people have been calling and harrassing me also. I asked if they could send me itemized statemebts, they say no, its not available. if I can't pay today charges wouldfiled and I would be arrested. spend a night in jaul and so forth and so on. can someone respond and let me jnow what to do

lft msg at work, said it was a legal matter, call back 951-616-6882 Scott Johnson.  When I called back, some man with extremely heavy accent he said his name but I could not understand, but it was not scott, he asked if xxxx was my last four. when I asked the name of the business he said cash loan, that tommorrow, friday 18th i had to be in court for lawsuit, that police would pick me up at home or work and take me to court, he stated my home address, work location and name of company, who my bank account is with, names of my references, he even stated that my references would be picked up as well I told him no one could do that with at a warrant for my arrest. he was getting angry and just repeated everything again. so i repeated what I had said, and then I told him that I am a law enforcement officer and I knew more than he thought, he said either settle lawsuit or suffer the consequences. I again repeated what I had said, he said then just wait and suffer the consequences, then he hung up on me.   One thing I first noticed is that he never said anything about this call being recorded or any of the other things that all of the other debt collectors tell you. according to 411.com reverse phone look up type: cell phone  Provider: verizon wireless Location: Moreno, ca

I have received the same call and was told the same information as in the post ny 'Sheisa'.  Please report this phone call to all the appropriate parties and be aware!!  Do not give any information over the phone and do not let this upset you.  If the guy keeps harassing you, tell him that the call is being recorded and that under th Fair Debt Collection Act, this is illegal and you will have him sued!  Do not fall for this scam!!!

received VM from 951-616-6883 stating that if I or my attorney did not call back they would see me in court.  Threaten me and my children, wishing us the best of luck in court. Called back the number that was left for me of 951-616-6883.  The person answered with alot of back ground noise and a very heavy Middle East accent.  Said they represented National.  They wanted my phone number and address. Refused to give information they hung up wishing me and my children the best of luck in court

I actually had a loan with cashnet usa and have paid been paid it...i got a chance to talk to these "attorney" ppl and they were rude, foreign sounding and tried to get personal info from me that I did not share...I did, however, call cashnet usa and they are conducting an investigation on these FAKE COLLECTORS WHO ARE NOT AFFILIATED WITH CASHNET USA!!! If you actually have had a loan DO NOT PROVIDE THEM WITH ANY INFO and contact cashnet usa customer service personally!!!

called Thursday September 17, 2009 in the morning at home leaving a message on my answering machine saying it was Alan Walden and that I or my attorney of record needed to contact them immediately.  That I should not ignore the call or I would be sorry and "good luck to you if you do not respond".  I received a call over the noon hour at work also, but told them I was not available, because nobody with an accent like that and all the noise in the background would be calling me at work. Was very freaked out when I listened to the message at home and heard the same voice and the same noise in the background.  I am worried they will call me at work again and I won't be the one answering the phone.

What did you do about them knowing so much especially your social security number seems like they can do some damage with your social.

I was first called at about 2:45pm central time and I was not home but my sister was here and took a message from a person that had a very heavy middle easter accent, he said his name was Nick Cruz and that I better call back as this was very urgent.  He told her he was with Riverside Law Firm.  The number he called from was 951-616-6882.  I called the number and after asking who I was talking to he told me he was the supervisor and his name was Ryan Crus and he worked for the cyber crime division.  He told me I had 3 warrants for my arrest for bank fraud among aother things.  He said that I had court Tuesday September 22 at 11am.  He had all my personal information, social security number,drivers license number, bank information, address, work information, references such as my sister and my youngest son.  Also sometimes when I tried to call the number back it would go to a fax.  I called our local police and they refused to fill out a report saying just to not answer the phone.  They then called from another number 875-820-6274.  When I tried to call that number it has a recording that the number can not be completed as dialed.  Something needs to be done to stop this.  I could just imagine how many people are falling for their scams and giving them large sums of money

they called me to say that they were a collector on a bill i owed. i knew that the bill had been taken care of, so i refused to pay the insane amount of money they wanted, and told them to take me to court because i had proof that it was taken care of. they called back the next day, claiming to be a collector for a different company that i have never heard of or dealt with. i told him that i knew it was a scam and asked them to stop calling. they called back 2 more times within minutes, only this time i let it go to voicemail. they left me two messages, one saying that they were going to show up at my door (which they had the address for) and that i should say goodbye to my family since i would never see them again, the other voicemail he threatened to rape me and my children over and over until i turned myself in. i filed a report with the police, and the police told me to contact the credit bureaus to let them know what is going on and put out a fraud alert. I was fine just ignoring the calls, but once they threatened me and my kids, i had to report it.