Called my home phone claiming to be the IRS and that my wife would be subject of a grand jury investigation if she didn't call back. She called back and they attendant said Department of Treasury. it is a phishing scam trying to scare you into leaving personal info.
This caller left same repeated message twice within an hour, saying it is from US treasury department regarding an arrest warrant. Blah, blah, blah… Person with the same accent answered, "department of treasury" when calling this number back.
We received this call yesterday and here is the beginning of the message, "Hi, this message is intended to contact you. My name is Dennis Gray and I am calling regarding an enforcement action executed by...."
The caller has an obvious accent from India, but is using an American name. Who the hell uses the word "intending" as needing? Notice how they did not even try and provide a name for whom this message is needing "serious attention". He probably should have used the word offense instead of attempt as in "intentional 2nd offense" to make it sound better.
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 getting a call blocking device or phone.. You can google them and many are around $40.00 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.
A man calling himself Dennis Gray called regarding an enforcement action executed by US Treasury and that ignoring this would be an intentional attempt to avoid appearance before a magistrate judge for a federal criminal offense.
He has called the last two days and left a voice mail message.