Someone called my dead brother's phone saying my dad have gave that number reference number and my mom answer they told her my dad 2 hrs to call back about a case he has if not he would have to go to court...Right away my mom called me freak out telling me to call my dad but while she was telling me all this there was something fishy i did not like i knew it was probably a scam like the scams i have been hearing people pretending to be people from the IRS. This people do not have any morals just like scaring people for a easy buck ugh!!!!
Someone called my dead brother's phone saying my dad have gave that number reference number and my mom answer they told her my dad 2 hrs to call back about a case he has if not he would have to go to court...Right away my mom called me freak out telling me to call my dad but while she was telling me all this there was something fishy i did not like i knew it was probably a scam like the scams i have been hearing people pretending to be people from the IRS. This people do not have any morals just like scaring people for a easy buck ugh!!!!
I got a call saying they were calling from LLS and that they needed to set legal document delivery as it was refused and to call this number within 2 hours, within minutes my brother sent me a text message that said berg law called about my court date and to call this number. If you aren't going to be truthful in who you are you are not getting my time.
We have one post saying it is a debt collector and one post saying they pretended to be the IRS.
This is a common ploy by criminals attempting to extort money from people by scaring you into believing that you will be criminally charged, go to jail, lose your driver’s license, have wages garnished, be sued, and a variety of other variations on this, all for an alleged or nonexistent debt.
Federal law (FDCPA) requires them to send you a letter (US MAIL ONLY) within 5 days of their first contact that contains their name, physical address, the creditor’s name, and the amount of the alleged debt. It also must contains “mini-Miranda” telling you that it is an attempt to collect a debt and that all information will be used for those purposes. The one other important thing that this letter must also have in it is that you have a right to dispute the debt within 30 days receipt of the letter and if you do so, all collection activity must be stopped until the debt is verified.
Read up on your rights here, get template letters to send and also make a complaint at this government site: http://www.consumerfinance.gov/
Also file a complaint with your State Attorney General's office.
List of State AG’s offices: http://consumerfraudreporting.org/stateattorneygenerallist.php
Official IRS Government site detailing this scam and providing links to report it:
http://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/IRS-Warns-of-Pervasive-Telephone-Scam