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Exact same call received by my Husband today almost word for word only you couldn't hear any co. name or person's name it just started with reading off the number to call then the rest almost same word for word. You'd think people would have better things to do with their time!!

do we just ignore these calls?? they don't leave a message, or at least they haven't yet...

oh my god!!  i just got , got from mike brown and now i have to go to the police to report this guy.. he somehow got my number when i was applying for a cash loan on the internet and i had so many calling me, that said that i was approved that i finally started to give in.. and was that the biggest mistake of my life.. they told me (mike brown) that i was approved for 10,000.00 loan and that all i had to do was to go and get a greendot card and put 155.00 on it for the loan application fee and then go to the western union to give them the mtc (money control number) but as he took my $155.00 off of the green dot card he said that ok now since that he got me approved that i had to pay only 5% of the 20% that his company encoure for the loan and i said what you didnt say anything about that. he then replyied that well we are paying 15% that my company's pays and if i didn't pay it then they would be able to do the loan.. so i said well give me back my $155.00 dollars then and he saiid that's not refundable and i think i almost lost my mind.. but as i calm down he goes , well look i see that you really need this loan and what i will do is i will pay 300 for you and you go get a (my vanilla network card and put 200.00 on it and then you can go get your 10,000 dollars loan...so i withdrawed it and call back and he said ok great curtis i will transfer your money and you  can pick up the loan but when i went to the western union the girl said that the mtc is not available and or its was on hold or something.. i was furious and when i call back mike said well something was wrong with the vanilla card that it didnt have any money on it and said that he didn't like people playing games with him and hung up on me after they took my 400.00.. so every time i call back some indian guy says mike is busy with real customers and that i'm now longer a customer cause i don't have any money when them mf took my 400.00 dollars.. i'm so angry but what can i do ... any one care to help me get these bad guyes

Received several calls also but told me his name was Mike Brown from Cash America, but did not speak very good English. Wanted to know if I applied for a loan. I hung up first time, but they call every few minutes I called back said don't call me no more is been 30 minutes now haven't heard back.

My daughter and I have always had many Indian friends, and I certainly have no prejudice against people from India.  But these disgusting scammers make me cringe now, everytime I answer the phone and hear an Indian voice.  I keep thinking it will be one of the participants in the so-called "Indian scam" -- and, unfortunately, it usually is.  These guys are giving good and decent people from India a bad name.

Interestingly, they are also giving the payday loan industry and even worse reputation than it already has.  One time, when I got sick of the Indian scammers telling me that I owed money to a company called CashNet USA -- and I most definitely did not -- I called CashNet USA to see what they had to say.  I got to talk to one of the company's senior attorneys, who frankly admitted that the scammers were hurting their business, because people assumed that the company was hiring rude people to harass people and making fraudulent demands for money.  They have talked to federal agencies and state agencies about stopping the scammers, just as ordinary people have done.  I've done some research and concluded that CashNet USA is actually one of the more reputable PDL companies around; they actually refrain from doing business in my state, which prohibits PDLs, while most of the PDL companies that troll the Internet will make loans to anyone, from any state or the moon, regardless of the laws in those states.  

You should also know that the Indian scammers have not stopped with accusing people of defaulting payday loan companies -- I think they started there because they had contacts in call centers that worked for these companies and could get lists of clients with their birthdates and such, and because the users of such companies were often good targets for scammers because they were not very astute about money.  Now, these scammers are claiming that people owe money to reputable banks and other organizations.  I think that some of them are also part of the new scam that claims people owe debts to the IRS, although there are also some good old fashioned Americans who are trying to bilk other Americans that way.  There's one firm -- I think it's based in the mid-West -- that has some of the most vicious scammers I've encountered.  It's a good thing I'm at work all day, during the week, because my phone rings constantly with these idiots. I use Comcast as my phone provider, and I can actually get a list of all the phone numbers that called me, even if I don't answer, on-line.  I can then check on-line, to determine which of the numbers that called were legitimate and which were scammers.

My advice to anyone who is getting scammer calls:  JUST HANG UP.  Don't bother cussing at the people.  Don't get into a discussion that raises your blood pressure.  If you pick up the phone and hear that "dead air" that suggests the call is coming from a call center "boiler room", just hang up before anyone starts to talk.  And if someone does start to talk, just say, politely, "Sorry.  I'm not interested," and hang up immediately.  If you are truly feeling ticked off, just say, "I don't deal with scammers," and hang up before the person can answer you.  Then take the phone off the hook or shut off the ringer for a while!

Sharon