The IRS still uses ink and paper if they have a problem with tax delinquency. Their agents do not ambush and terrify citizens like cheap hoodlums by phone or email. Here's the word from the *real* IRS, excerpted:
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today warned consumers about a sophisticated phone scam targeting taxpayers, including recent immigrants, throughout the country.
Victims are told they owe money to the IRS and it must be paid promptly through a pre-loaded debit card or wire transfer. If the victim refuses to cooperate, they are then threatened with arrest, deportation or suspension of a business or driver’s license. In many cases, the caller becomes hostile and insulting.
... "Rest assured, we do not and will not ask for credit card numbers over the phone, nor request a pre-paid debit card or wire transfer,” says IRS Acting Commissioner Danny Werfel. .... Werfel noted that the first IRS contact with taxpayers on a tax issue is likely to occur via mail.
source: "IRS Warns of Pervasive Telephone Scam" - 31 Oct 2013
http://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/IRS-Warns-of-Pervasive-Telephone-Scam
The Federal Trade Commission echoed the warning this month:
"The Treasury Inspector General for Taxpayer Administration (TIGTA) warns that crooks posing as Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials are contacting people claiming they owe taxes. The caller demands a prepaid debit card, wire transfer or a credit card number for payment. If the person doesn’t comply, the caller threatens to arrest or deport the target, or take away their driver’s license or business."
Fake IRS collectors are calling
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/fake-irs-collectors-are-calling
gOT A CALL FROM THE SAME GUY FOREIGN SAYING HE WAS FROM THE IRS AND I WAS BEING AUDITED WAS VERY RUDE AND STERN...SAID I OWED 1,379.00 UN PAID TAXED... AND STATED I WAS BEING AUDITED . I FOUGHT WITHN HIM A BIT DIDN'T GIVE NO INFO.. THEN TOLD HIM IM HANGING UP
The IRS still uses ink and paper if they have a problem with tax delinquency. Their agents do not ambush and terrify citizens like cheap hoodlums by phone or email. Here's the word from the *real* IRS, excerpted:
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today warned consumers about a sophisticated phone scam targeting taxpayers, including recent immigrants, throughout the country.
Victims are told they owe money to the IRS and it must be paid promptly through a pre-loaded debit card or wire transfer. If the victim refuses to cooperate, they are then threatened with arrest, deportation or suspension of a business or driver’s license. In many cases, the caller becomes hostile and insulting.
... "Rest assured, we do not and will not ask for credit card numbers over the phone, nor request a pre-paid debit card or wire transfer,” says IRS Acting Commissioner Danny Werfel. .... Werfel noted that the first IRS contact with taxpayers on a tax issue is likely to occur via mail.
source: "IRS Warns of Pervasive Telephone Scam" - 31 Oct 2013
http://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/IRS-Warns-of-Pervasive-Telephone-Scam
The Federal Trade Commission echoed the warning this month:
"The Treasury Inspector General for Taxpayer Administration (TIGTA) warns that crooks posing as Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials are contacting people claiming they owe taxes. The caller demands a prepaid debit card, wire transfer or a credit card number for payment. If the person doesn’t comply, the caller threatens to arrest or deport the target, or take away their driver’s license or business."
Fake IRS collectors are calling
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/fake-irs-collectors-are-calling
Claimed I owed them a large amount of money and if I didn't pay within 45 mins the police would be there to arrest me and I would be in jail for 90 days. And he advised me not to go into details with my family because they would start calling him and he couldn't release private matters with anyone else. And he told me all my personal properties would be seized and my bank account would be frozen He called me a couple times. I called him back and I told him I was at the police station and he asked which one was I at. I end the call at that point. He hasn't called back since
Claimed to be from the IRS and said his name was Mike Jones. Said we have been chosen as a fraud case and that we cheated the IRS. Told us not to hang up phone and go to a nearby store and get a prepaid card to pay penalty fee. Very rude and had a thick Asian/ American accent. We knew this was a fraud so beware. My friend told me about this website which informed me about the other complaints of this number.