951-977-1365

I just received a call from a guy with a very strong accent but his name was supposedly Steven Brown. He informed me that I was being sued and he asked if I had an attorney. I asked him what am I being sued for and he said only the attorney Mike Anderson that he works for can answer my questions and that I can call Mike Anderson @ 951-977-1365 which is the number that showed up on the caller ID. I wrote down the name and number for the attorney and then asked him for his name. He got angry with me when I started laughing and told him he had a very strong accent with a very american name. He then threatened me that I will go to jail. There has to be away to really get these people. This is so ridiculous.

I got a call at 5:30am telling me I was going to jail and that I had a lawsuit against me. I tried to get a loan from payday USA and they got my for 500 bucks.. now this shyt. They are calling my old boss telling her the same thing.. I'm going to call the police and anybody else I can possible get a hold Of stop this shyt

I to got a call about the samething telling me that their was a lawsuit against me from Anderson law firm and the guys name that he used was Jose`Williams telling that I really needed to get back in touch with him in the time alotted to get this matter taken care of and if not he wished me good luck and hoped everything goes well.So instead of calling him back I just called the FBI and the FTC to see what I should do.

I have not received a call from one of these jerks for some time. The last time they called I asked them if they knoew they were talking to a police officer (I am not one) but I refused to ID my self but told them I will got after them. Ironic I have not received one of these since (I have talked to a quote "legit" one (Purdie & Associates) who use the same script but I have a past due loan that they have bought to collect on. They only called 2x.

They called me saying I had taken out a loan for cash advance, and that they had filled threee criminal charges against me, and they were going to have me arrested. They called me at work!!. I have never taken out a loan and have no idea how these people got my information. But I am going to file charges on them.

call to tell me the police is coming to get me for a cash advance loan

This is hilarious! I just got a call this morning from this "Steven Brown". I had to pass out laughing. I'm like dude when did lawyers start outsourcing to India or Pakistan. You don't read to well from the script,dude you need more practice. You can't sue me for crap. All this after applying for a payday loan. It's just a scam!

.Anderson Law & Associates…really…not Anderson & Associates Law you [***]/   I have received a few calls from this thief.  I NEVER give info over the phone unless I call them, even if I know the number.  I don't think scammers can create a fake caller ID yet, but with computer software you never know.   Eventually, your caller ID could say it's your bank but It could  be a scammer.
Anytime you hear other people in the background on what should be a professional call IT COULD BE A SCAM
Anytime it takes a few seconds for the caller to respond to your “hello” the call is from a computer.  IT COULD BE A SCAM – tell them to give you the 800 number and you’ll call back then check both #s online.
I don’t want to sound like a racist, but if the caller has a foreign accent IT COULD BE A SCAM
BE SAFE     &    NEVER  give info over the phone

defsNiceTryJackass!!!  Their message said they have my SS#, email addy, DL #, and bank statement which is “under State investigation” and that this information “will be given to my employer”, so “I will lose my job” , etc.   And unless I call back it will be “downloaded to  (unintelligible) County Court.  NiceTryJackass!  Random lawyers not representing anyone can’t bring criminal charges to county court that would be the DA, which is easy to verify, but if it’s under “State Investigation” it wouldn’t be auto-downloaded to county court.  So I called them.  I really pissed them off it was great.  I said
1.    What county court?  --they couldn’t find where they wrote it
2.    If it’s State Investigation why would the county get it?  --they said it won’t go there if I pay..
3.    What DA or state attorney is working with this criminal charge?   ---umm, they haven’t picked one
4.    My cousin’s a judge and said if any of my personal information went to my employer or ANYONE else this Anderson and all his associates will be disbarred?    --they hung up
Nice Try [***]!

EVERYONE,
Please call  US Gov’t Financial Fraud Task Force  (202) 514-2000
Thanks

I Have received a phone call, at my work, from a heavily accented Indian man stating that I was being sued and that I should call this attorney (Mike Anderson) at 951-977-1365.  When I asked him who was suing me and why he became very belligerant and I hung up.  He has called three more times and I have hung up each time.  He is scaring me.

Phantom Debt Collectors From India Harass Americans, Demand Money

By BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) , CINDY GALLI and MATTHEW MOSK (@mattmosk)
June 7, 2012

Hundreds of thousands of cash-strapped Americans have been targeted by abusive debt collectors operating out of overseas call centers suspected of links to organized crime in India, law enforcement officials told ABC News.

The calls are part of a massive scam, one that appears to target struggling Americans -- especially those who have gone online to apply for payday loans. Armed with personal information from those pilfered applications, the threatening callers, who claim to be debt collectors poised to initiate legal action, have managed to pry loose millions of dollars from their victims -- even when the victims never owed money in the first place.

"This is what we call a phantom debt collection scam," said Jon Leibowitz, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. "It's a very pernicious and innovative new fraud."

Working through call centers in India, the commission estimates that the criminals have dialed at least 2.5 million calls, persuading already cash-strapped victims to send them more than $5 million. Some have reported receiving dozens of calls per hour. They are victims like Cindy Gervais, of New Orleans, who went online for a quick loan when her husband's car was hit by a driver who didn't have insurance.

Even though she paid the loan off, the so-called "phantom" debt collectors with Indian accents began calling to say she still owed money.

He more or less told me that if I didn't pay, they were going to have someone on my doorstep to arrest me," she told ABC News. "And that they were going to contact my place of business, and tell them what kind of person I am."

At first, she said she resisted. Then the calls became more frequent, and started to ring on her cell phone, and at the grocery distribution company where she had worked for 27 years.

"I was more or less was in panic mode because he told me there would be someone before noon at my place of business to arrest me and take me to jail," she said tearfully. "So I agreed to pay him."

After receiving scores of complaints, investigators with the FTC said they began tracking the calls, and following the payments. They alleged the payments led them to a California company run by an Indian-American named Kirit Patel, and that such scams would not be possible without American front men.

"I would say that all roads of this scam, or many of the roads of this scam, lead back to Mr. Patel," said the FTC's Leibowitz.

ABC News tracked Patel for weeks, from the suburbs of San Francisco to Austin, Texas.

Patel refused to talk. But his lawyer, Mark Ellis, said he believes it is far too early to pass judgment on his client. Ellis, a Sacramento-based attorney, told ABC News that Patel was hired for a nominal fee to set up an American shell company, and had no idea what the call centers in India were doing.

"I can tell you, he was as snookered by the people in India as anybody," Ellis said. "He's a 69-year-old man who is nearing his retirement who thought all he had to do was set up some corporations and everything was on the up and up. He's completely dismayed that he has become the lightning rod of this entire problem."

A close friend of Patel's also defended him in a brief interview at his home, saying Patel was not trying to defraud anyone -- he was just an unwitting, bit player in a larger scheme.

"If Mr. Patel was just a cog in the wheel he seems to have been a pretty big cog," Leibowitz said. "It is clear that Patel was integrally involved with this scam."

Leibowitz points to thousands of pages of financial and phone records gathered by the FTC and filed as part of a civil case brought against him in the U.S. District Court in Sacramento last month. When FTC lawyers sought to freeze his assets and prevent his business from continuing to operate, Patel responded by invoking his rights against self-incrimination. His lawyer told ABC News he has had to be careful in how he responds to the allegations in civil court "because there is a potential criminal action," but that Patel maintains the allegations against him are false.

Federal investigators said the phantom debt collection operation that allegedly benefitted from Patel's assistance was one of several that all trace back to the same small town in Western India called Ahmedabad. Callers use technology to make it appear that the calls originate inside the U.S. Victims provided ABC News with recordings of dozens of the calls, and many of the thickly accented callers appear to be reading off a script.

"Subpoenas have been readied, and Monday morning you're going to be picked up from your home," one caller says on a victim's voicemail. "And you have children. Don't worry about your children. We have a childcare department to take care of the children."

"You will be behind bars for six months," said another caller. "And once you go behind bars, you will lose your job. Once you are behind the bars, you won't get a single drop of water."

William Peerce Howard, a Tampa attorney who represents victims of harassment from debt collectors, said it takes an especially twisted criminal to use threats and coercion to pry money from someone who is already struggling financially

"These guys really are the most visible villains in America today," he said. "They make a living scaring people."

Mark Merola, of Florida, said he just panicked when the caller told him he might be arrested at the deli where he works in a Florida retirement community.

"I was nervous. I didn't want to embarrass myself, my family," he said. He used his debit card to pay the collector $576.

Afterwards, he says he realized "how stupid I was."

"It just happened so fast," he said. "I got scared."

Leibowitz said he hopes with more attention, future potential targets of the scam will recognize red flags before they turn over any money.

If callers say they are from the police, consumers should know that law enforcement officers do not collect debt for private parties. If the caller is speaking with a thick Indian accent, but calls themselves by a names such as Officer Mike Johnson, that should be a tip off. And if they're calling 40 times in two hours, that's another red flag. "Legitimate debt collectors, legitimate pay day lenders don't do those sorts of things," he said.

Merola said he would like to see anyone involved in the scam prosecuted aggressively.

"There's no place in society for these people," he said.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/phantom-debt-co ... 16512428&page=2

They called me and informed me that the company was unable to withdraw the money that they had deposited in my account and that the deposit had been made in error.  They told me that if I didn't quickly go to the bank and withdraw the money and deposit it onto a money pak card asap, that my home would be raided and all my assets on the premises as well as accounts would be taken and i would immediately go to prison.  They told me to call them back as soon as I had deposited the funds onto the money pack card to avoid this and to call them immediately with further instructions.  I called my local police department and informed them and was told to just ignore the phone calls and do not return the calls.  They have not called back since.

This person has called my work and home three times wanting the name of my attorney. When I asked what this is about he tells me that he is from a Mike Anderson lawyers and that he does not have the information I ask for. I have spoken to the state police and they advice me to ignore him but I am getting harrassing phone calls at home and at work.

Print off this thread and give it to your employer. Let them know this is an extortion scam.

I got a call from this number telling me that it's a case against me. These people are crazy for real

I keep getting calls from an Indian man who changes his name...he asked who my attorney is and when I said what are you taling about he said OH MY GOD..I hung up on his a**! then he called my cell 4 more times in a row...i looked up this site and KNEW it was a scam..next they will call people that know me.. I want to report them to someone/

Received a threatening phone call today stating that I had received money from Cash Advance USA. never received a loan, however, I did apply for one and was denied. The guy had a fake ass Indian accent. he says that I will be arrested tomorrow at my job. Will let you know what happens!!

Annoying as hell. Some thick accented degenerate calling himself Steve Brown jsut left  a long, threatening message on my work phone. From the script he read,  I could make out the words "legal notification" and "lawsuit against my social security number". Huh? The he said if I didn't call back, I will lose my home and job and he can only "have mercy on my soul". Wow.

I recieved the same phone call telling me i had a lawsuit against my ssn number nd my job will be in jeporady.. I knew they were a scam because this had happened to my friend awhile back... I told them i will not give no information nd i will report them for harrassment.