I also recieved same message, same inaudible parts, different number. 206 826 6987.
Tried calling IRS, after 5 mins of prerecorded questions and 15 mins, and counting, on hold I decided to call our friend Ross Gaber, all I got was a busy signal. Still on hold with our fine govt institution. I think I will hang up, forget this ever happened and get some real work done.
Received three calls - The caller said that I should call this Number ASAP - because their is a tax fraud against my account and if I call they can help me before it goes to Washington.
a foreginer man called said he was calling from IRS and had my first name. Said that IRS needed to talk to me within 5 minutes about my tax situation. Gave me the above number. Did not call him.
Report the Calls to the real IRS here:
•report the incident to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration at 800-366-4484.
•You can also file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission at FTC.gov. Add "IRS Telephone Scam" to the comments in your complaint.
Do consider maybe getting a call blocking device or phone.. You can google them and many are around $60.00 or so.
A scammer who called himself Rolf(?) Gaber and claimed to work for the IRS in Washington left a message on my answering machine -- twice in the same day (a Friday). He claimed that a tax fraud had been reported against my name (but he did not actually mention anybody's name in the call). He said that I should call him back on 206-596-7582 (but no extension number) to avoid the matter being taken to 'Federal Claim Courthouse' or getting arrested. The voice sounded computer-generated, in the same kind of way that my NOAA weather radio's alerts sound computer-generated. I presume it is an automated scam that calls large numbers of people and hopes to sucker the most gullible and/or terrified recipients of the call into sending checks or releasing their bank account details over the phone -- but I haven't verified the m.o., because I wasn't silly enough to call back. (Could it be a premium-rate number?)