Called my landline. The man claimed to be from the IRS. Did not ask for one particular person. Said quote( Would like to talk to you about some criminal charges filed against you) unquote. Did not sound like an IRS agent at all. Was demanding to know my name which I gave him.Said he was looking for someone else and hung up,
Called my landline. The man claimed to be from the IRS. Did not ask for one particular person. Said quote( Would like to talk to you about some criminal charges filed against you) unquote. Did not sound like an IRS agent at all. Was demanding to know my name which I gave him.Said he was looking for someone else and hung up,
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 but not by calling them back directly (the number may be spoofed and repeat calls by you may - under exceptional circumstances- amount to harassment). 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:
claimed to be from IRS and I had criminal charges filed against me.... that if I did not take care of this today I would go to jail for a long time... I asked his name and the first time I ASKED he said "Jack" the second time I asked he said Mike Watson.. stated that I owe back taxes and penalties from 2007 threw 2014.... I then told him [***].... I would call my local IRs agent and see them... he stated that they did not have the case file and would not help me... at this time I stated a few foul words and hung up
"Jack" just called me. Since he doesn't speak English very well I seriously doubt he is with the IRS. I didn't answer because I'm at work and do not answer #'s I don't recognize on my cell. Left me a voice mail to call back the second I received the message. Nope!
Called and left me a message to call back the number immediately because criminal charges have been filed against me. Checked the number because I didn't recognize it and found others had the same thing.