888-397-4036

These people keep calling my family, numerous times a day every day, harassing us saying there's some charge against my sister. It is a scam!!! This women who goes by the name Patricia White who claims to be a "locator" keeps threatening that shes going to bring us papers to our home, I have told her many times, ok if this is real go ahead and bring the papers, and she won't, she just keeps calling and harassing. They are just trying to scare us into paying them or something. Still wont give us any info about what its about. I am going to sue these people if they don't stop harassing my family!!!!!! Also, any time we call the 888 number, you can tell most the time its the same women disguising her voice! they won't give us an address or any info. Real debt collectors do not act this way!!!!

THIS PLACE IS A FRAUD!  This is what I found on the FBI's website under the section of scams/safety atwww.FBI.gov

http://www.fbi.gov/scams-safety/e-scams

New Variation on Telephone Collection Scam Related to Delinquent Payday Loans

02/21/12—The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) continues to receive complaints from victims of payday loan telephone collection scams. As previously reported in December 2010, the typical payday loan scam involves a caller who claims the victim is delinquent on a payday loan and must make payment to avoid legal consequences.

Callers pose as representatives of the FBI, “Federal Legislative Department,” various law firms, or other legitimate-sounding agencies and claim to be collecting debts for companies such as United Cash Advance, U.S. Cash Advance, U.S. Cash Net, or other Internet check-cashing services. The fraudsters relentlessly call the victim’s home, cell phone, and place of employment in attempts to obtain payment. The callers refuse to provide information regarding the alleged payday loan or any documentation and become verbally abusive when questioned.

The IC3 has observed variations of this scam in which the caller tells the victim that there are outstanding warrants for the victim’s arrest. The caller claims that the basis of the warrants is non-payment of the underlying loan and/or hacking. If it’s the latter, the caller tells the victim that he or she is wanted for hacking into a business’ computer system to steal customer information. The caller will then demand payment via debit/credit card; in other cases, the caller further instructs victims to obtain a prepaid card to cover the payment.

The high-pressure collection tactics used by the fraudsters have also evolved. In one recent complaint, a person posed as a process server and appeared at the victim’s job. In another instance, a phony process server came to a victim’s home. In both cases, after claiming to be serving a court summons, the alleged process server said the victim could avoid going to court if he or she provided a debit card number for repayment of the loan.

If you are contacted by someone who is trying to collect a debt that you do not owe, you should:

Contact your local law enforcement agencies if you feel you are in immediate danger;
Contact your bank(s) and credit card companies;
Contact the three major credit bureaus and request an alert be put on your file;
If you have received a legitimate loan and want to verify that you do not have any outstanding obligation, contact the loan company directly;
File a complaint at www.IC3.gov.

•    I found this online as well at the FBI's website.  This sounds ALOT like the tactics that are being described in the thread of posts.  If you are being harassed by Global Collections, DO NOT PAY!


http://www.fbi.gov/scams-safety/e-scams

Telephone Collection Scam Related to Delinquent Payday Loans

12/01/2010—The IC3 receives a high volume of complaints from victims of payday loan telephone collection scams. In these scams, a caller claims that the victim is delinquent in a payday loan and must repay the loan to avoid legal consequences. The callers purport to be representatives of the FBI, Federal Legislative Department, various law firms, or other legitimate-sounding agencies. They claim to be collecting debts for companies such as United Cash Advance, U.S. Cash Advance, U.S. Cash Net, and other Internet check cashing services.

One of the most insidious aspects of this scam is that the callers have accurate information about the victims, including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses, employer information, bank account numbers, and names and telephone numbers of relatives and friends. The method by which the fraudsters obtained the personal information is unclear, but victims often relay that they had completed online applications for other loans or credit cards before the calls began.

The fraudsters relentlessly call the victim’s home, cell phone, and place of employment. They refuse to provide to the victims any details of the alleged payday loans and become abusive when questioned. The callers threaten victims with legal actions, arrests, and in some cases physical violence if they refuse to pay. In many cases, the callers even resort to harassment of the victim’s relatives, friends, and employers.

Some fraudsters instruct victims to fax a statement agreeing to pay a certain dollar amount, on a specific date, via prepaid visa card. The statement further declares that the victim would never dispute the debt.

These telephone calls are an attempt to obtain payment by instilling fear in the victims. Do not follow the instructions of the caller.

If you receive telephone calls such as these, you should:

Contact your banking institutions;
Contact the three major credit bureaus and request an alert be put on your file;
Contact your local law enforcement agencies if you feel you are in immediate danger;
File a complaint at www.IC3.gov.

This number is from a scammer. They pretended to be Global Collections contacting me about a payday loan from over six years ago. They tried to scare me into giving them a credit card number to settle the debt "today" or else I would have a process server come to my job and serve me. I asked for their address and they said they don't give it out for the security of their employees. I'm not paying one dime! I don't owe these people a cent and they are trying to use harassment to scare people into paying. Then they use a phony phone system to make it appear that the processor is calling you from a local number. You can never call the processor back because the number doesn't work.

This number is from a scammer. They pretended to be Global Collections contacting me about a payday loan from over six years ago. They tried to scare me into giving them a credit card number to settle the debt today or else I would have a process server come to my job and serve me. I asked for their address and they said they don't give it out for the security of their employees. I'm not paying one dime! I don't owe these people a cent and they are trying to use harassment to scare people into paying. Then they use a phony phone spoofing system to make it appear that the processor is calling you from a local number. You can never call the processor back because the number doesn't work. It conveniently goes to a mailbox that is full or doesn’t accept messages.

These people keep calling my work, numerous times a day every day, harassing everyone saying there's some charge against me. It is a scam!!! This women says her name is Lyne Obrien who claims to be a "locator" & threatening to bring the papers right over to my home, but she is talking to me on my work phone. I keep telling her that. I have told her many times, ok if this is real go ahead and bring the papers, and she won't, she just keeps calling & screaming into the phone and harassing.  she tells me to call 877-783-2855 & the guy that answers tell me i can make a payment over the phone to clear this all up, he says he can't give out the address nor can he mail or fax me any papers. Still wont give me any info about what its about. I think this is all a scam but I need it to stop!

These people keep calling my work, numerous times a day every day, harassing everyone saying there's some charge against me. This person says her name is Samatha Green has the same voice as Lyne Obrien who claims to be a "locator" for the Firm & threatening to bring the papers right over to my home, but she is talking to me on my work phone, even tho I keep telling her that. I have told her bring over these papers so I can see what its all about, she says shes on her way but never gets here, she just keeps calling & screaming into the phone and harassing.  She tells me to call 888-397-4036 & the guy that answers tell me i can make a payment over the phone to clear this all up, he says he can't give out the Firms address nor can he mail or fax me any papers. I think this is all a scam !