I got a call on my voice mail from Steve Martin,alledgedy from the treasury dept saying the same garbage,he had an Indian accent.The number was in L.A. California. A definite scam!
If you get a call from a foreign guy named Steve Martin (323-284-5627) ignore it. He called my parents claiming he was with the US Treasury and that my dad messed up on his 2010 taxes, and IRS agents were coming to arrest him so he could stand in front of the magistrate. Obviously, we knew it was a scam. I called to confront him, same guy answered, and he then threatens me and says that he will send the police to my house to arrest me. I asked him what my address was and my parent's address was and obviously he couldn't tell me. I told him I'd save him the trouble of calling the police, and call my husband who's a police officer myself. He hung up on me.
Call blocker might be of some help. Also don't pick up on numbers you do not recognize, or where there are caller IDs that seem odd. Or where there is no caller ID. There’s no way to stop the calls from being initiated. Calls originate in India and Pakistan.
Sadly they do. Women seem especially vulnerable. They go after women, single mothers, the elderly and members of the immigrant community. If you haven't ever watch SNL or seen Steve Martin in a movie, you just might get scammed by this character. At least using Steve Martin as a moniker might alert some people to the scam.
Apparently the Indians and Pakistanis don't know Steve Martin is alive and well and lives in Beverly Hills.