Different phone number but same IRS investigator with threats about fraud and to call him back as soon as possible, same name Jonathan Knight and gave his same badge number. Same story as before just different phone number!
I too received a call On Friday March 20, 2015 7:15pm, Identified his self as Jonathan Knight and gave badge # 06719
and I needed to call back . time sensitive investigation and there was fraud on my income taxes and I was hiding money.
the phone# on my caller ID is ...by the way this is a my magic jack number he called, it isn't even a cell or house phone. that
puzzling. FUnny thing is I think the phone number he called from was blocked...it is not shown in my caller ID
My parents received a call from Jonathan Knight, claiming to be an IRS investigator, Badge # 06719. Emphasizing that they had committed tax fraud and were hiding it from the government. He insisted that they had limited time to return his call at his direct line: 202-46-8489. Somebody please get these people stopped before they rob older people!
There is a fairly common IRS or "tax scam" being practiced by scammers on both Canadian and USA residents.
USA tax payers should read this:
http://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/IRS-Reiterate ... -Telephone-Scam
Short answer:
The IRS never initiates a contact via phone.
They always send a snailmail first.
Educational post:
This scam is also described as scam #11, here:
http://phonehelp.2truth.com/facts_rev.html
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I received the same call. I don't think the person understood English or he couldn't hear what I was saying as he did not respond to anything I said (i.e., that my name was Richard Nixon and that before I died I had been president of the United State). He just kept on talking. No response to anything before I hung up on him.