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>> reporter: to get american consumers to pay debts they don't really owe, they often pose as police officers threatening to make arrests. >> my name is officer johnson. >> reporter: and they somehow have the victim's social security numbers. >> let me reveal the last four of your social. it's 9281. >> reporter: the calls to cindy of new orleans started long after she and her husband had taken out and paid off an online loan. but she was told falsely she still owed more. >> and that i was a no good dead beat. i would spend the night in jail and my family would be able to get me out. >> reporte...

Pose as police and then hound and trick people into sending them money. abc's brian ross investigates. >> reporter: to get american consumers to pay debts they don't really owe, they often pose as police officers threatening to make arrests. >> my name is officer johnson. >> reporter: and they somehow have the victim's social security numbers. >> let me reveal the last four of your social. it's 9281. >> reporter: the calls to cindy of new orleans started long after she and her husband had taken out and paid off an online loan. but she was told falsely she still owed more. >> and that i was a n...