FAKE phantom debt collection scam by madarchod criminals phoning from India. This is what the Federal Trade Commission calls a phantom debt collection scam where the scammer pretends to be a debt collector, bank, credit agency, billing department, lawyer, or law enforcement and threatens to sue or arrest you using lies, harassment, and intimidation to collect on fake debts that you do not owe. Debt collection scams are very common because many people carry debts, so it is easy for scammers to phish for gullible victims. And both Filipino and Indian debt collection scams have vastly increased this year to prey upon the larger number of people in debt. The scammer or recording mentions very vague urgency or legal actions, fake "court filing attached to your name", important documents, unpaid financial accounts or account ID codes for your fake debt, and they say numerous attempts to contact you at your home and workplace have been unsuccessful and this is their final attempt, which is all false and intended to make it sound urgent. The synthesized speech may be recorded in Spanish or Chinese to target immigrants. The scammer tries to sound threatening, asks for your Social Security number "for verification purposes", and says you can settle the debt by paying with a credit card, prepaid debit card, eBay/Amazon gift card, or demands that you wire transfer the payment, or asks for your bank account/routing number. Or the scammer pretends to offer a "50% settlement" deal where "you only have to pay half" of your fake debt. About 43% of North America scam calls come from India, 36% from Philippines, 17% from China/Myanmar. Foreign scammers run thousands of fraud, extortion, money laundering scams every day such as posing as a fake pharmacy, fake Social Security officer saying your benefits are suspended, IRS officer collecting on fake unpaid back taxes, debt collector threatening you for fake unpaid bills, fake bank/financial/FedEx/UPS/DHL scams, posing as utility/phone/internet companies, pretending to offer fake health insurance, car warranty, student loan forgiveness, credit card and debt consolidation services, posing as Amazon to falsely say an unauthorized purchase was made to your credit card, posing as Microsoft/Dell/HP/Apple to say your account has been hacked or they detected a virus on your computer, fake "we are refunding your money" or "your account has been auto-debited" scams, fake Google/Alexa listing scams, fake solar and home purchase offers, fake fundraisers asking for donations, fake phone surveys, and the scammers try to phish your financial and personal data. Indian scammers often rotate through fake tech support, fake auto-renewals/charges, fake pharmacy, many loan and tax/debt relief scams, and fake charity donation scams on the same day. Filipino scammers run many Social Security and Medicare identity theft, and auto/home/health/life insurance scams. Scammers use disposable VoIP phone numbers (e.g. MagicJack) and telecom software to spoof fake names and numbers on Caller ID. Scammers spoof thousands of fake 8xx toll-free numbers. CID is useless with scam calls unless the scam asks you to phone them back. CID area codes are never the origin of scam calls since scams use spoofed CID numbers from across the US/Canada, numbers belonging to unsuspecting people, invalid area codes, and fake foreign country CID numbers; e.g. fake women crying "help me" emergency scams spoof Mexico and Middle East CID numbers. Scammers often spoof the actual name and number of businesses such as banks to trick you into thinking the call is valid. How can you avoid being scammed by phone calls? NEVER trust any unsolicited caller who: sells something (most unsolicited calls are scams so your odds of saving money are very poor); asks for your Medicare or Social Security number; offers debt relief, loan services, Medicare assistance (people who are old or desperate in debt often fall for scams); offers a free gift/reward; threatens you with arrest/lawsuit; asks you to access a website, download a file, wire transfer money or buy prepaid debit/gift cards; claims your account is frozen or has suspicious activity; says a subscription is refunded or auto-renewed/auto-debited; and all recorded messages. Recordings are far more likely to be malicious scams and not just telemarketer spam. All unsolicited callers with foreign accents, usually Indian or Filipino, are mostly scams. No other countries are infested with phone room sweatshops filled with criminals. Most Filipino scammers speak better English than Indian scammers. Filipinos speak English with a subtle accent that may sound Hispanic. To hide their foreign origin, some India scammers use non-Indians in their phone room. Scams often falsely say that you previously contacted them or visited their website. Indian scammers play fake Amazon recordings. Amazon account updates are emailed, not robo-dialed. Many banks use automated fraud alert calls to confirm a suspicious purchase, but always call the number printed on your credit card to verify if the fraud alert is real or fake. Scammers impersonate phone/cable/internet companies, offering fake discounts or service upgrades. Indians impersonate the IRS and Social Security Administration. The IRS/SSA never make unsolicited calls and never threaten to arrest you; they initiate contact via postal mail. Real lawsuits are not phoned in, especially not using recorded threats lacking details; legal notices are mailed/couriered. The police, FBI, DEA never phone to threaten arrest; they show up in person with a warrant. Scammers try to gain your trust by saying your name when they call; your name, address, birthday are public data. Many scammers, especially female Filipinas, use "romance scam" tactics of sounding really friendly as if they are your best friend or lover to try to gain your affection and trust, hoping that you let your guard down so they can easily steal your identity and money. Scammers often play recordings speaking English, Spanish, or Chinese that is easily generated using text-to-speech translation AI software to disguise the origin of their overseas phone room. Some speech synthesis sound robotic, but most AI speech sound very realistic. Scammers often use interactive voice response (IVR) AI/NLP software that combines voice recognition with artificial intelligence, speaks English with American voices, and responds based on your replies. IVR calls begin with: "This is fake_name, I am a fake_job_title on a recorded line, can you hear me okay?"; or "Hi, how are you doing today?"; or "Hello? Are you there?"; or "Hi, may I speak to your_name?" IVR quickly asks you a short question to elicit a yes/no reply so it hangs up if it encounters voicemail. One myth is that saying "yes" to IVR lets scammers use your voice sample for other scams. IVR understands basic replies and yes/no answers. To test for IVR, ask "How is the weather there?" since IVR cannot answer complex questions. IVR usually transfers you to the scammer, but some scams entirely use IVR with the robot asking for your credit card or SSN. Phone/email scams share two common traits: the CID name/number and the "From:" header on emails are easily faked, and the intent of scam calls is malicious just as file attachments and website links on scam emails are harmful. Scams snowball for many victims. If your personal/financial data are stolen, either by being scammed, visiting a malicious website, or by a previous data breach of a business server that stores your data, then your data gets sold by scammers on the dark web who will see you as fresh meat and prey on you even more. This is why some receive 40+ scam calls everyday while others get only 0 to 2 calls per week. If you provide your personal data to a phone scammer, lured by 80%-discounted fake drugs or fake loan and debt services, you receive even more phone scams and identity theft can take years to repair. Scammers often shout profanities at you. Google "Hindi swear words" and memorize some favorites, e.g. call him "Randi Ka Beta" (son of whore) or call her "Randi Ka Betty" (daughter of whore). Scammers ignore the National Do-Not-Call Registry. Asking scammers to stop calling is useless. Scam recordings often tell you to press a keypad number to be placed on their Do-Not-Call list or to unsubscribe from their scam texts/emails, but those keypad commands are fake and they say that just to sound legit. Scammers often provide a toll-free callback number to look like a real business, but they regularly shed old callback numbers so you can never reach the scammers once you have realized that you were scammed. Scammers tell you their callback number just to gain your trust long enough to steal your identity and money and then they frequently switch to using new callback numbers. You do these scammers a favor by quickly hanging up. YOU SHOULD SCAMBAIT ALL SCAMMERS - slowly drag scammers along on the phone call, provide fake personal and financial data (16 random digits starting with 4 for Visa, 5 for MasterCard), ask them to speak louder and repeat what they said to waste their time and energy.

January 17, 2026

Received a phone call from "scam likely" phone number 844-586-0572. The voicemail transcript "Hi process____either at home or place of employment if no contact is established this matter will be escalated in classified as a failure to be a third any other questions or concerns you may addressed this is showing office by pressing one to transfer directly to a case manager or contact the phone number 888-668-5105 That 888 number is for Marathon Solutions out of Sacramento California.

September 1, 2023

This is the verbatim message I have received at least 3 times now… This is this is Nicholas I'm calling from document processing regarding a summons scheduled to be delivered by process server to either your home or place of employment if no contact is establish but matter will be escalated any further classified as a failure to be served any questions or concerns may be addressed to the issue in the office by calling the phone number 888-668-5105 thank you…” I have an “excellent” credit score and pay everything on time, if not early…This is becoming exasperating…These people need to be stopped…

August 28, 2023

This is Nicholas. I'm calling from document processing regarding a summon that is scheduled to be delivered by a process server to either your home or place of employment. If no contact is established, this matter will be escalated and further classified as a failure to be served. Any questions or concerns may be addressed to the issuing office by calling the phone number 8886685105. Thank you.". They have called twice today and once yesterday.

August 23, 2023

"This is Nicholas. I'm calling from document processing regarding a summon that is scheduled to be delivered by a process server to either your home or place of employment. If no contact is established, this matter will be escalated and further classified as a failure to be served. Any questions or concerns may be addressed to the issuing office by calling the phone number 8886685105. Thank you."

August 23, 2023

From my voicemail in a robotic voice: Document Processing regarding a summons that is scheduled to be delivered by a process server to either your home or place of employment. If no contact is established, this will be escalated and classified as a failure to be served. Any questions or concerns can be addressed with the issuing office by pressing one to be transferred to a case manager. Or you may contact the issuing office at 888-668-5105

August 23, 2023

Demanding a civil lawsuit that I owed a large amount of money.

August 17, 2023

This is a scam, please report them

August 17, 2023

A voicemail was left that repeated 3 times regarding a civil litigation. I called the number back knowing it was a scam and a “John” answered. When I asked John what this was about, he stated it was re: a lawsuit from Wells Fargo for $2989. I told him I know nothing about it and I pay all my bills and nothing is outstanding. He replied, “That’s good to hear.” I asked if he could provide an account # this was associated with as nothing shows on my credit report (this is from 2016 supposedly) that I check monthly. He paused and then said “882509.” I asked for Wells Fargo contact information for this account, he said he didn’t have that available. I then asked, “So, what was your purposes in calling me today?” He said, “Well, it doesn’t seem like you want to take care of it, so-“ I said, “No, I do, what’s your solution today?” He said he could take 25% payment or full payment today. LOL I told him to take his scam somewhere else! (Note: I am 100% positive I have no outstanding balances with Wells Fargo and nothing shows on my credit report now or in 2016!)

August 17, 2023