Unfortunately there are people who are way too trusting who fall for this scam. If the person is gullible enough to believe them, they send the person to the store to buy gift cards and then ask the person for the number on the gift cards and they steal all of their cash. I'm not talking hundreds, I'm talking tens of thousands. I know first hand that there are people out there who fall for this scam. These scum sucking leaches prey on the elderly and I am aware of at least one person who got hit for $9,700 because she was so frightened that she was going to jail. PLEASE, even though you may be smart enough to google it, our parents and grandparents may not think to do this so pass this information along to everybody you know. The IRS will never ever call you and ask you to load gift cards with large amounts of cash to pay off a debt. NEVER!!!!
11-25 found a message from this number, a man identifying himself as "Officer Derek (or Eric) Foster, Message was garbled a little, but the tone was threatening, and the message was to call him back as this was a "time sensitive matter", etc.
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.
201-643-7930 is a scam going around the country right now their pretending to be IRS .IRS will never call you by phone.I call them back and ask them how to they sleep at night steeling money from people the guy to me he will continue pulling this scam and curse me out .Only I turn it back on them and call them back to be just as annoying as they are , really 19 times I call and made them angry which made me happy . Try it and have fun with these scum bags
I received the same call about IRS and coming to my house with a warrant in 45 minutes, after 45 minutes I called them back and then continued to call them back, each time acting like I spoke with that same person before and told them that they hung up on me. Because "they" are a call center using the same "Officer's" name they would try to continue on with our last call but I would make stuff up and they would agree. I did is so much I think I am blocked. They want to waste my time, I will waste their time. Have a great day.