Received a call on my home phone from 347-501-7188. The guy said he was from IRS and needed to speak to my husband. He had a Middle Eastern accent and I could barely understand him. Ask him what the IRS needed with my husband and he said he could only talk to him. I ask him where he was located because he did not sound legitimate and he said New York. Not even 30 minutes later he called my husbands cell phone and was asking for his number to look up on a list. My husband said if you are the IRS then you would know the number and refused to tell him and hung up the phone.
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.
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Do consider maybe getting a call blocking device or phone.. You can google them and many are around $50.00 or so.If its a cell phone, some already have call blocking, if not, there are free apps on the web that will work for some. You can google this. If you have a smart phone, there is a free app called call control. Iphones appear to have apps also. Another one is called Mr. Number.
OK... so let me tell you about these guys! They called from 347-501-7188 and 518-795-9424. The first time they called I told them that the person they were calling for did not live here. The second time they called, I asked for their Government Badge ID number, since, you know, they are from the IRS. He called me a "fu**er. I said, "Excuse me???" He said, "Yeah, you heard me. fu**er! You sound hot! Send me some nudes!" I asked to speak to his manager and he said that he was his manager. I hung up. Then I got mad. I posted the numbers on ever social media account that I have and I began calling them incessantly. I had my friends call them incessantly. I filled up their vm boxes. I call and play music as loud as I can. I call over and over and over and over. And having my friends do the same. They finally got rid of the 518-795-9424 number, but the other is still active. They were calling me back and saying vile things. But, they made one mistake... they accidentally called me from their India phone number: 91-11-919727175278. So, today, I just kept calling all of the numbers over and over and over. They were BEGGING me to stop. "Ma'am why are you doing this? It's not funny anymore." "Because you are pretending to be the IRS and are scamming thousands of American people out of their hard earned money. You are a POS and deserve it. I am going to keep calling you and calling you and calling you like you do to thousands of others." "They deserve it if they are stupid enough to fall for it!" "And you deserve what I am doing. Calling you over and over and over. " Finally, they called me from another spoofed phone number: this one is an actual person's phone number (yeah... apparently they can do that!) This guy tried to play on my sympathy. "Ma'am, I am 18 years old. I live in India. I do this because I have no other options. This is the only way that I can make my money." So, I said, "Fine. Let's make a deal. Tell me how your scam works and don't ever call my phone again, and I will leave you alone" Sooooo... here it goes... (Please note: I am paraphrasing and it was really hard to understand him at times, so this is just the gyst of what he said: According to the guy that they had call me (you know, they guy that is supposed to make me see them as humans working for a living and not scum scamming hard working Americans)- here is how their process works: they buy phone numbers and addresses from the cable companies (Verizon, ATT ect), they have a spoofed irs website and they have access to very real looking federal warrants. So what they do is call people and claim to be the IRS. They say that you owe $9500 (or whatever) and if you don't pay, they will sue you and issue a warrant for your arrest. When people ask for proof, they mail, fax or email their fake documentation. They then ask for the money to be sent wirelessly through a chase account. Now, here is where it gets interesting. They also have loan companies (separate from the fake IRS), when a person says that they can't come up with the money, the fake IRS agent points them to their fake Payday loan website. So now they have your bank information.