This is a Pakistan or India based IRS scam. Do not fall for it. The IRS does not initiate any legal action via phone.
Read http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/press/press_tigta-2014-03.htm
As general background information, here are a few things you can do:
1) Report it to TIGTA under http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/contact_report_scam.shtml especially if you have become a victim (lost money, gave personal information etc.). You can also file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission at ftc.gov/complaint (include “IRS Telephone Scam" in your complaint). This way you can also help the government establish specific fraud patterns.
2) Help kill their phone lines. The scammers use Voice over IP lines (e.g. magicJack (Ymax corporation)) to make it seem as if they are calling from the US. This is always against these companys' terms of service and can lead to immediate termination of their contract and blocking of their IP addresses for future attempts to register. Do a reverse look up of their telephone number (e.g. www.whitepages.com) to identify the Voice over IP provider and report it to the company and or law enforcement (local police and/or state attorney general)
3) If you are really annoyed: call or write to your representative in Congress. As these scams happen all over the country maybe this will trigger a reaction and provide US law enforcement agencies with the political backing and the resources they need to work in India and Pakistan together with local authorities (it can happen, read: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/ex-call-cen ... mmission-320427). A US task force has already been set up in Jamaica to nab scammers there (see http://www.ice.gov/doclib/news/library/reports/cornerstone/cornerstone7-1.pdf). You can use the following template for your letter (more powerful!) or email:
just got a call from this number. The man said he has a warrant for my arrest and they were going to take m to south America! He also told me that a large package containing cocaine and various other drugs were waiting to be delivered to my house! I asked him why would someone give out large amounts of drugs to someone that hasnt paid for them! Anyway, i called my local police dept. and reported this. They told me it was a scam. I was glad to read that this phone number is a scam number. It does shake you up, though!
I got a call from this number also, I called the DEA and found out it was a Scam. The guy that called me on this scam talked to me like I was pure trash he told me I was going to be arrested because they had my name and address on a package of illegal drugs. The DEA said these people are dangerous and they are working on the case to catch them. Any useful information u can provide would b helpful. I hope they catch these people
Call came from 510-725-4009 also 347-637-5214 and 407-624-4536. They called on a Sat. duh... What gov agency works on Sat, much less call. Anyway, calls said they came from Oakland Ca, Ny,Ny and Florida. Hope this helps someone, because it scared me in the beginning. He knew his stuff and had an answer for everything. He went by the name of Officer Thomas Parragon
I just received a call from the 347-637-5214 and they told me the same thing. I also called my local DEA office and also Govenor Cuomo's office and gave them all the information regarding this situation.