Our relatives received phone calls from someone in india(?) claiming we have taken out a loan and now it is going to collections and  we had listed them as references. No such loan exists and we certainly didnt tell anyone their numbers how do we catch them?when we called the number they hung up on us .

I received a call from Christopher Hawkins from  Mark Brown and Assoc. telling me that my ss#  was under investigation for fraud and terrorism? I asked if they were accusing me of being a terrorist, Christopher Hawkins stummbled and continued reading off of a script. I asked for their address and phone number which he ignored and continued reading. I finally said, you need to send me something in writting, that is the law once you do I will contact my attorney and he will speak to you, in the mean time do not call me or my work number, I have put you on report and if you do I will press charges against you, the guy hung up.  This appears to be a scam. I would advise not to verify or give out any information to these people.

i got a call today on my job from this number and the oerson stated tht his name was derek. he sound foriegn and i could not understand he said. i finally begin questioning him and he hung up.  this is the same person tht tried calling me 2 months ago but used a different name.  can u say SCAMz

Called my son to say that I had defaulted on a note he co-signed! My son has cosigned no loan, had a foreign sccent that was not readily understandable. Sounds like a scam to me, beware!

THIS IS AN EXTORTION SCAM. Scammers use bought/hacked loan application data to extort payments for fictitious debts from victims and victims' families and friends.
The FBI warns about payday loan extortion scams here http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/paydayloanscam_120710 
The BBB has issued several alerts on this scam, just google "bbb.org alert phony debt collector"
Report to the Internet Crime Complaint Center http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx , the Federal Communications Commission http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm , the Federal Trade Commission https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/ and your state AG, as appropriate.