GREASY FOREIGN  "COLLECTION AGENCIES" BILKING AMERICANS OUT OF MILLIONS
- Countless Fake Debt Collection Agencies Are Operating Out Of Cesspools like India. Involving more than 2.7 million calls to at least 600,000 different phone numbers nationwide, according to the FTC. In less than two years just one company fraudulently collected more than $5.2 million from American citizens. And that's just one of countless scummy foreign "collection agencies" scamming Americans day in and day out-

Often pretending to be American law enforcement agents such as “Officer Mike Johnson” or representatives of fake government agencies like the “Federal Crime Unit of the Department of Justice.” Callers from India who were working with an agent inside the US  would harass consumers with back-to-back calls, according to the FTC. The 'payment' would be sent to a drop address inside the US and then wired to India. One consumer reported that the caller threatened to have her children taken away if she did not pay, according to court documents. All of the payments received from the call centers in India were routed through a bogus California-based company.  Americans are used to receiving calls from India for insurance claims and credit card sales. But fake debt collection represents a growing business for outsourcing companies. A federal grand jury Thursday charged the head of a debt collection scam operation with 21 separate counts of various federal crimes. The fake debt collection scheme, which operated out of call centers in India, was shut down by the Federal Trade Commission, only to spring up in new locations in India. U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California, Benjamin B. Wagner, Thursday announced the indictment against Kirit Patel of Tracy, Calif. The grand jury charged Patel with 21 counts of mail and wire fraud for his role in a scam that attempted to get American consumers to pay on non-existent payday loans via calls from Indian call centers. Armed with a sophisticated automated system that dials tens of thousands of Americans every hour, and puts confidential information like Social Security numbers, addresses and credit history at operators’ fingertips, this new breed of collectors is targeting Americans with faked late car payments, faked overdue credit card debt and bogus lapsed installment loans. Debt collectors in India often cost about one-quarter the price of their American counterparts, and are often better at the job, debt collection company executives say.
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