I know the company called my work and told me the same thing also called a couple of months ago and told me that same thing I am not falling for them. When I called the number back all I get is number not available so I am not worried about it amy more
Same as previous calls on this list. Confirmed my Social Security number and has been presistent in calling my workplace non stop on a daily basis. He did mention that they will be picking me up from my workplace. Phone number is not listed name of company Financial Crimes Protection.
they called my workplace to tell me that the police would be picking me up at my workplace and takeing me away. he calls my work place non stop and verified my social securuty number and the name of the Company is Financial Crimes Protection
I know the company called my work and told me the same thing also called a couple of months ago and told me that same thing I am not falling for them. When I called the number back all I get is number not available so I am not worried about it amy more
It's a scam. There's no such thing as a Federal Investigation Bureau or United Legal Processing.
This is a very active group of overseas scammers who attempt to extort money from Americans with a myriad of false and illegal threats. They alternately pose as debt collectors, federal and state law enforcement officers, lawyers and bankers. 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, White Collar Crime Unit and many more. These crooks often use caller-id spoofing software and/or VoIP to disguise their real location and to make it appear that they are calling from American area codes.
(By the way, 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* Florida obtained a $1.3 million judgment against Ted Ellis Crosby, shutdown his operations and barred him from ever conducting debt collections in Florida. (Read http://myfloridalegal.com/newsrel.nsf/newsrel ... 5257424005858A6 )
The main thing to remember is that anytime someone calls you demanding money to prevent your arrest, it is ALWAYS a scam. No debt collector (let alone criminals posing as debt collectors) have the authority to have anyone arrested for anything. (And it's illegal to them to threaten such a thing.) And since these foreign dirtbags routinely impersonate law enforcement, it's also important to remember that American law enforcement officers aren't in the business of debt collection. (Debt is a civil, not a criminal, matter.)
The bottom line is, these are criminals trying to steal your money. I suggest you do all the following (most of which you can do online):
1) The U.S. Secret Service is responsible for protecting the country's financial infrastructure and payment systems from international and domestic threats. Call or write your local Secret Service field office to alert them to the details of this attempted extortion. The addresses and phone numbers for the local Secret Service field offices are listed at http://www.secretservice.gov/field_offices.shtml or in your phone book.
2) Alert the FBI at https://tips.fbi.gov Be sure to tell the FBI that you are being targeted by extortionists over the phone who are posing as federal law enforcement. Be sure to give as many details as you can.
3) File a complaint with your local police. Most police departments will take a report over the phone. Be sure to tell them that you're being targeted by an extortionist and give them all the details.
4) File a complaint your state's attorney general, the contact information for whom is at www.naag.org
5) File a complaint online with The Federal Trade Commission at https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01
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:
yes these guys called me too as well. the gentleman name is jason hunt and left me a message saying it was an extremely time sensitive urgent matter. he could not leave any confidential information in voicemail for we need to discuss in details of the matter and failure to hear from me or my retained attorney will lead to a lack of refusal to call back and go into legal matters which includes embarrasment to me. he wish me good luck with this matter. i had a similar situation happened to me before and i am so glad to be able check out this site. i do not want to talk to these people nor have anything to deal with them. how can we stop these people.