Fraudulent Debt Collectors Are Calling and Scaring People With Fake Payday Loan Debt Scam
These are phony debt collectors. Some of the phone numbers being used are:
646-499-6029
650-452-6236
972-472-9922
803-369-3108
818-302-7511
347-418-0401
916-458-4838
206-607-0716
760-514-0147
415-236-1916
714-006-6000
310-401-6743
209-912-2108
My clients have reported many other calls from these people and we handled it for them. But the underlying number seems to be from area codes (818), (213), (310), and (714) for the most part.
These fraudulent collectors claim you will be arrested and placed in jail unless you send money to them immediately. They will even threaten to call your place of business and report to your boss or that you have a lawsuit against you when you were never notified to begin with.
Some people are getting voice mails to even have their attorney call them back which is just another one of their scare tactics. The amounts they are seeking from people are roughly between $400 and $1,000. These telephone calls are usually received on a Friday or weekend when government offices or the payday lenders you supposedly owe money to are closed.
Their objective of this scam is to scare the person into sending money via Money Gram, Western Union or to release their bank account info, in order to stop them from having the police from coming to arrest you. But remember you cannot and will not be arrested for not paying a debt. Not paying back a debt is a civil matter.
The callers show real phone numbers in the US but these so called debt collectors are calling from a call center in India using a Voice over IP.
Again, the name of the payday loan providers given is a sham. The scammers use both the name of a real payday loan outfit and even an attorney to make the person think it’s legitimate if they check it out on the web. Again, it’s completely fraudulent.
If you get this type of call whether you owe the debt or not get a hold of the original creditor and seek information regarding this. As well please go your state attorney general’s website and file a complaint. You can also file a separate complaint with the FTC. All this can be done online.
If you have been called or targeted please list the name and number below so others can benefit from it as well. We would love to stop these guys from preying on innocent people. You can also file a complaint at the Internet Crime Center http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx
Some of our clients have used this intimidation tactic on the scammers. They start out asking the person calling them these simple questions:
”What did you say your name was?
Can you spell that for me?
What is your address?
Can you please spell that for me as well?
And what’s the best number to reach you or a direct line?
Then repeat it back to them.
What is the name of your company?
Can you spell that for me?
I need your supervisor’s name also, and please spell it for me.
I also need their direct line too.”
And so on and so forth…
They always get frustrated because the clients insist these questions be answered before the allow the scammer to speak and they always hang up first.
Another quick tactic is to just pretend you have no idea what they are saying because you can’t understand what they are saying.
I have been getting calls from these people too for the past year. They call from different numbers. I have lost track of the different numbers. At first they were calling my house and cell phone, and now recently they are have called my employer and a friend of mine, whom I had as a reference. the recent number came from 315-538-9925. I have reported them twice to the District Attorney’s office (of the state the area code is from) I was advised on both occasions to fully ignore them, hang up when they call and never verify any information. They basically cannot be caught because they are calling from out of the country.
This is actually a new number they are using. Haven’t seen it show up in the watch list yet.
THEY ARE USING MAGIC JACK –SAW A SITE THAT SOMEONE GOT A RECORDING..CALL YOUR ATTORNEY GENERAL..ALSO MAGIC JACK NEEDS TO BE INVESTIGATED ASAP…OTHER NUMBERS THEY ARE USING –818-302-7558///404-048-2462//347-875-9500//THEY PLUG THE PHONE IN –AND UNPLUG ANYTIME THEY WANT TO –MAGIC JACK IS USED ALL OVER THE WORLD..CALL YOUR STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL /THEY ARE ENOUGH NUMBERS TO TRACK THESE IMPOSTERS TRYING TO GIVE US OUR HARD EARNED MONEY..
This is the number I’ve had them call me from: 305-260-6689. They are so rude and they keep leaving voicemails!
Men with very thick indian accents threatening to call my job and boss. Wouldnt tell me the where the debt was from but stated my social and address to me. NOT OK!! Put a fraud alert on my credit and calling the atty general. Phone # 1-888-586-0485
347-504-0773 a man with thick accent called me today at work and on cell couldn’t understand half of what he was saying besides fraud and whether I had attorney. I was like no i don’t have an attorney and have no clue who you are. His name was clark willson.
received a voice mail last night, saying i was going to be arrested for not paying a debt. These guys are idiots I work at a law firm, I know you cannot be arrested for not paying a debt.
They have been calling on and off for months.
Here is the number they used yesterday 727-346-8385-(Clearwater, Fl)
888-586-0485 and 282-726-2524 which turns out to be an invalid number Nicole Brown from Morris Lawfirm has contacted me stating I have action pending against me. She said they will come to my job and everything I have filed a complaint with the attorney generals office that was no help. they made it seem like it was true and denied to help do anything. I will try the ftc. these calls started in march and stopped and now they have started again. they are harrasing me at work.
Receive a call about every 3 months from these people…thick indian accents threatening legal action for an unpaid payday loan which I know for a fact that I had paid. Number that showed up on my cell phone was 0000 but he did leave a message as I know longer answer these calls saying his name was Bruce Marshall and left me a number of 917-628-2327 which when I called was not a good number.
I was contacted last Thursday by officer Robert Brown of the National Banking investigative bureau had my ssn and all my info clearly a scam and he also had an Indian accent number he used was 661-230-3036 which comes back a land line in Edwards cal.
a man with a heavy indian accent called from morris law firm and said they will have me arrested and will have me fired from my job,if i don’t respond back the number he left was 1-888-586-0485
I have been getting these same calls. The first number was (512)588-7149. A man with a heavy Indian accent has called me 15-20 times a day for the last few weeks. It all started in May 2011. He said that if I did not pay them $400 dollars for a loan(which I never recieved) They would have a warrant issued for my arrest. They refused to give me a mailing address saying that the only way they would take a payment was over the phone. I told them that I didn’t have any money. They called me a liar and hung up on me. So I called them back and asked them why they hung up on me…because that wasnt very professional. He told me not to call again and hung up on me again. I tried to call back but they blocked my number. I thought it was over but then they started calling me again in last week. Then yesterday they called from (347)377-7717 and a man with a thick Indian Accent claimed to be Raymond W. Kelly the New York Police commissioner saying that they were going to issue a warrant for my arrest if I did not pay them(he literally said pay us) the money that you owe!! They also said that he would be at my place of employment to arrest me on Monday at 11 a.m. I live in Missouri so I find it very interesting that the New York police commisioner is coming all the way here to arrest me! I hate to think that people are falling for this scam! I was so relieved to find this site…it helped me realize that I was not the only person that they are doing this to!
These scammers certainly aren’t very bright are they? I am glad you found our site as well.
I have been getting these same calls. I just got a call from a new york number (646)504-6547 I have been receiving these calls for the past year. several different numbers and they’ve used several different names. with this new number they say that they are sheriffs and that they are coming to arrest me unless i pay the amount of 400 dollars for a payday loan. I have never taken out a payday loan. I am disabled and haven’t worked for the past 6 to 7 years. i’ve been in touch with our local authorities and they have just informed me to hang up on them. not to say anything, to just hang up. that is just fine, but it doesn’t stop the calls and these calls can get rather annoying. my husband and i have declared bank ruptcey in january of this year..ive informed these people that if it was on our credit report it was cleared by our bank ruptucy and they tried to tell me that my situation wouldn’t clear that and i couldn’t include that. everyone one of these calls were by people with thick indian accents. i would love to know how to stop these calls…as i’ve stated, they get to be rather annoying. thank you..
My caller ID on my phone shows 91970, the name was Shawn Johnson, also a thick Indian accent, told me to call back 305-260-6689, about a lawsuit. They have also called me work and I have told them not too. I just keep telling them to put it in writing and mail it US mail service, they usually hang up on me then. They call about every other month.
These people WILL not stop calling me at work and leaving threatening messages on my bosses phone. I don’t owe any money, never got a payday loan but did fill out form for one over a year ago and these calls are threatening arrest, and all kinds of crap. I’m gonna end up getting fired if they don’t quit it. I’ve reported it to the FBI, the State attorney, the FTC and even filed a police report but they are STILL calling. The latest # is 213-221-2882 “Law Office” Mr. Brian Howard
My caller name is Alex Marshall 512-234-5451 The calls started two months ago. Caller said I had a p-day loan in 2008 for the amount 589.00 that I did not pay. I was being sued wanted my lawers name. Also he told me I would be arrested for fruad and they would contact my employer. I have not had this loan and if I had someone would have contacted me before now? I asked him for a copy of the court papers and he hung up on me. I call him back and he hung up on me. Also had an Indian accent and very nosie in background. I traced the number to a site in Burnet Tx.
This people are calling me my friends and my work I have called everyone to no avail. How do I get them to stop.
I have heard from clients who called these people back and gave them a hard time for harassing them which stopped all the calls. These scam artists work on intimidation and people who turn the tables on these guys get the calls stopped. I even had one client who told them they were calling a security company and they were being recorded. They never called her again.
I have been getting phone calls since last Friday from a guy with a heavy Indian accent and he claims he is with Anderson Law firm out of Orlando, Florida and that my social and all my information is under investigation for fraud because of a payday loan. The payday loan company is one that I dont even have a loan with and I have turned him in to the authorities and the Texas Attorney General for leaving threats about being arrested if I dont contact them. He has gotten cleaver and changed his number he is now using a number under skypeman1999 out of Clinton,new york which is a land line the number is 315-557-0207 and the Orlando, Florida number is 321-558-1002 which is a cell phone number. Your right nothing can be done to stop them but everyone should realize if they have your information there is a good chance your identity has been stolen as a result of them hacking the payday loan system to get your information.
Just got another call from a female sounding heavy accent Indian or Chinese orient who told me not to ignore there calls and if I did that she wished me luck as things unfolded as a result of me not calling them back. I was getting calls from Orlando, Florida, now Im getting calls from a guy off of skype and now some oriental person out of Ione, California.. I have contacted my local police authority and everyone else because this is harassment and illegal you cant be arrested for debt. And I for one havent committed fraud everyone I deal with know its me and fraud means you are using someone elses information as your own so these people are preying on people who dont know any better. The phone numbers being used are 315-557-0207, 209-790-3740 from someone name greg wilson who was chinese really i know alot of chinese people and indian people and they dont have american names
Just got 2 calls one yesterday from a phone number 512-234-5451 and man by the name of Paul Martin from a Harris law firm. Today the call was from 646-4995229. I gave them my attorneys information and let them deal with him. Could not believe I did not get the lawsuit paper work. They wanted to explain the case. Told them talk to my lawyer. He took the phone number and then hung up. This giuys name was Adam Lambert.
I got a call from a collections claiming to be an attorney stating that they where going to do a federal lawsuit against me if i did not pay them. They would take me to federal court for fraud. The number they called from is 510 355-8737. He has an accent from India and he said he is based out of California.
I received a voicemail today from a heavy accented man saying he was from Morrison Law Office, someone had a complaint against my name and social security #, he has my credit report and that if I didn’t call back then there would be someone showing up at my home or work. #’s 282-726-2524 and 877-228-2338. It freaked me out, so I called back and he asked me for my phone # and I said that you already have that since you called and he hung up on me. My husband called and got them to tell him that they were calling for US Cash Advance which I have never done business with and that I owe money, but couldn’t give him any other info becuase the paper work was with the lawyers, but supposely they are the law office.?? Anyways we went searching online becuase it surely felt like a scam, cause I know you can’t be arrested for a debt and I don’t have anything I am late on. Thankfully we found the fradulent info on them. just wish there was a way to stop them! I just don’t understand why people want to try to scam others when you know they don’t want it done to them! I called and put a alert on my credit report just in case they have any of my info…I didn’t give anything to them, but supposely they have it.
You can certainly file a complaint with the Internet Crime Bureau http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx If enough people do it they might be able to figure out a way to stop this.
I receive multiple calls on my home number and work number from these people every week. This has continued now for SEVERAL months. I work for a law firm and even the senior partner has gotten on the phone with them. We push back and harass them and they STILL call. We have experienced all of the above – “this is officer _______ from your local sheriff’s department and we are sending officers to your place of business to arrest you. They will be there in an hour” … today it was Morris Law Firm. Previously we were told there are court papers filed against me for fruad and I could be arrested. The list goes on and on. When we request their address they put me over to a supervisor who continues to harass and refuses to provide nay information. Since they state they are a law firm, we asked to speak to a staff attorney to which they replied “what is your bar number?” and we said none fo your business. NEVER provide them with ANY personal information.
I have been hearing numerous reports that the calls stop after the client calls them and harasses them back. These scammers apparently work on intimidation and if you go after them they tend to stop calling.
My parents received a call, then my sister, twice today from an English speaking woman, Jackie Smith. I called back and spoke to an English speaking man, but the background noise was so awful, I could hardly get anything out of him, other than he knew the first 4 digits of my SS# and that I owed Mastercard $1000 from 2004! Whatever!!!
I have been getting these calls at home & work from multiple phone numbers. They are absolutely relentless. They are very good and trying to intimidate you into paying what you don’t owe. Some of them are rehearsed because they use the same language/terminology – it is very scripted. They most recent one was very rude and just kept telling me he was going to contact my employer etc. I told him I would tell it to the judge when they take me to court and I hung up. I have filed a formal complaint with IC3 and the PA Attorney Generals office with various phone numbers.
Hi,
I call all this indian guys all day long and have fun playing his game, until they get mad and end the call but i call every 3 min, one of this guys almost cry and beg me to leave him alone because he can lost him job,and i told him i don’t really care about his life so i will keep calling him, please provide more numbers so we can have fun with them,
att.
Your Friend
I’ve been receiving calls from weird numbers. The last one that showed up on my caller id was “0000.” This has been going on for the past 2 weeks and now I’m finally getting voice messages from an Alex guy with a thick Indian accent. It’s very noisy in the background, his voice is very unprofessional. Here’s the “Hotline number to his deparment” – or so he called it: 209-790-3740.
Thank you David S. for getting back to me! I’m going to just ignore these calls from now on.
It is our pleasure Arline. Glad we can help!
Some foreign speaking NUT called me (at work) stating I owe a payday loan and they are going to file a case with the county court. I asked which court and they stated the name of the state I live in as the county court. I laughed and told the guy to play on someone elses phone and he hung up. The person was calling from 870-568-7011. This foolishness needs to stop!!!
Received a call on 09/01/11, stating I a summon to appear in court had been issued in my name and that I was to contact Mr. Perry special Investigator at
803-369-3108. the voice is that of a heavy black man. You can also here other phones and people talking in the background. I believe them telemarketers/ scam artist.
I will file a complaint with the Attorney General’s Office.
They have been leaving me messages and all I can understand is attorney and best of luck. Well I answered today and they say they are the US dept of Justice and I had 300 deposited into my checking account in 2010 by American Cash Advance. Well I’ve never had a cash advance or payday loan ever. I asked for documentation and he replied that if he did that I would be agreeing to the debt and the judicial process would ensue and I would then owe 5000 instead of 300. He gave his address as 170 Park Row New York, New York 11040. If I understood him correctly lol. I told him I thought this was fraud and he said for me to come to New York and see for myself that he would show me. I said I will get on the next flight lol. What scares me is he had my banking account number so tomorrow I’m closing my account and opening a new one. He kept saying how he was trying to help me and if I didn’t let him he wished me the best of luck. The number he called me from was 12345678925. I’m not even kidding. I told him I would hope the US dept of Justice would have better things to do and also hire people that people could understand he started yelling at me after that.
I have been receiving the same calls. Some guy from a law firm.. I can’t understand the heavy Indian accent. He says that my SS# is under investigation for fraud and I better call back. One of the numbers he is using is 282-726-2524. He is calling on my cell and work numbers. I am thankful I found this site, and I am going to close my bank account tomorrow.
Excellent, glad we could help.
I actually DO owe a cash advance but I have gotten numerous calls from these people as well, the first was from a tony something who called my job and told my boss that I was going to be arrested for fraud and that My employer and myself were to appear in Supreme Court the next day. My poor boss almost fainted, she called me at home so I called them back. An Indian sounding man informed me that I must immediately go get a green dot money pack and send them 550 within the hour then the police would be heading towards my home and place of business. I was scared to death. The first part of the # was a 714 number. After telling them that it was harassment and they were violating FDCPA I didn’t hear anything for about a month. Tonight when I came to work I got a not that a Mr gibson called from the bureau of crime for my state. I haven’t called back yet! I havent comitted any crime so I dont know why I should, I suppose if I had commited a crime they would be here not calling!
These people have been calling my home as well – leave messages saying they are federal officers and if I ignore the request for funds, an officer will arrest me. Now they are calling my work and leaving messages – we are ignoring call but they are getting to be a nuisance. I told them to go check the internet that it is all over the internet that this is a scam and to not call my home anymore. I know don’t answer. The number they left at my work to call them is 650-452.6236.
Thanks Elizabeth, I have updated our site to include that number.
I got the same calls to. yesterday I someone called block and I answered it and it was the same people that kept calling my job.At first it was a guy and he said to hold on that he will give the phone to the Law forces or something like that,can’t understand with his accent, anyways a female came on the phone introduce herself by the name Michelle Cruz and the first thing she ask me was ” Do you have an Attorney?” I replied back “no, for what?” and then she start saying that they are calling on the behalf of Cash Advance and I owe them money, how they are telling me all these other rubbish about there 3 things that reason why they are calling me she told them but I still couldn’t understand cause of her accent. One of them she heard clear was that I made a fraud check and that’s when I interrupted her from she was trying to tell me, that I never made any check frauds, I don’t carry checks, and continue to keep saying what she wanted to say and asked me how am I gonna solve this.I said I don’t know, I thought this was all real cause I never came across these people before til I came across this website. I went along what she was telling me and asked me to pay $250.68, so iagreed to pay and then she ask me to write a letter and write it the way they say on the letter along with my debit card information and a photo copy of my I.D. and fax it to them, she called me at 10am on saturday expecting to fax the letter by 12pm. Well since I didn’t she kept blowing up my phone and then I blocked the unknown number and they called unblock with this number 584-710-1254. I called that number back by blocking my number and the operators saying that this number has been disconnected. I got fooled before by them in April by these same people and he said his name was Alex Watson, I never knew they were scams til now, well he got $200 off from me by doing the same procedures that these guys ask me to do and I faxed the letter with all my information to this fax number (206-309-3238). Thought to myself “something not right” that’s when I came online to find out if this person I talked was real. Come to find out they were scams. I got so angry so I tried to call the number(619 area code) back it was already disconnected. They is some one working with the Magic Jack phone company is helping these guys to change their numbers or maybe they work for Magic Jack and knowing the company system and keep using different numbers and reusing the number that they disconnect. So they must work for the company. The question is where are they really located.
I also received a call from a indian guy named Mike today threating to send me to jail for a old loan I keep calling back for more info he’s being rude and saying to talk to my employer the number is from Texas 512-646-2091
these guys have called me with the same b.s. when i finally realized it was a scam i called back asking if that was the customer service center for 7-11 and immediately criticized them sayin there was a hair in my slurpee and all the employees walked around barefoot god im gunna drive these people insane
hi- i have just started receiving calls, i posted on another site when i first received a call… that area code was 951 the number was exact with other people. i never answer the phone but i still get left msgs… other numbers are 310-853-3491 305-587-2555 and the latest from yesterday and today ( today was the only msg from that number) 650-735-1563 robert william was the name.. this is so annoying.. i’ve saved the msgs also.. is anyone else getting calls from any of those numbers?
The problem is once their numbers get reported as a scam they change the number through magic jack. I will update our site to reflect these new numbers. Thank you.
One of my employees has been getting calls at work from the 650-735-1563 number stated above. He works graveyard so he is never here when they call. They have called 5 times today alone. On the 5th call I told them that the number they are calling is a private security firm’s dispatch phone line and that all calls to and from this number are recorded. The lady said something that I’m almost positive was not English and then ended the call. They did not call back after that, however that was at about 7pm. I attempted to call the number back and it said “The extention was not availible.”
David, thanks for putting this site up. I was able to find you by typing the phone number in Google. Now I know for sure its a scam and what to do if they call again.
You are very welcome Derick.
got a number from 347 380 8980 they told me i had to call them back or else they were going to to call my boss..i been getting calls like this for months its all a scam
Called me at work too. same number 650-452-6236. Said some of the same BS. I thought it was a scam, so I googled the number and viola, this shows up. I think next time I talk to them, I’ll give them a taste of their own medicine.
i have had 14 calls today alone. i have filed a complaint with the police, sheriff , bbb and internet fraud with the fbi.
they threaten my arrest if i do not send money for a debt i do not have . they call from numerous numbers and use phony names of real companies.
all heavy indian accents.
today my granddaughter answered the phone and this idiot tells her she can be arrested if she doesnt get me on the phone!
thats it. something needs to be done ot stop these people.
Do not just “ignore” them. We need to stop these people!