This is a Pakistan or India based IRS scam. Do not fall for it. The IRS does not initiate any legal action via phone.
Read http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/press/press_tigta-2014-03.htm
As general background information, here are a few things you can do:
1) Report it to TIGTA under http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/contact_report_scam.shtml especially if you have become a victim (lost money, gave personal information etc.). You can also file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission at ftc.gov/complaint (include “IRS Telephone Scam" in your complaint). This way you can also help the government establish specific fraud patterns.
2) Help kill their phone lines. The scammers use Voice over IP lines (e.g. magicJack (Ymax corporation)) to make it seem as if they are calling from the US. This is always against these companys' terms of service and can lead to immediate termination of their contract and blocking of their IP addresses for future attempts to register. Do a reverse look up of their telephone number (e.g. www.whitepages.com) to identify the Voice over IP provider and report it to the company and or law enforcement (local police and/or state attorney general)
3) If you are really annoyed: call or write to your representative in Congress. As these scams happen all over the country maybe this will trigger a reaction and provide US law enforcement agencies with the political backing and the resources they need to work in India and Pakistan together with local authorities (it can happen, read: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/ex-call-cen ... mmission-320427). A US task force has already been set up in Jamaica to nab scammers there (see http://www.ice.gov/doclib/news/library/reports/cornerstone/cornerstone7-1.pdf). You can use the following template for your letter (more powerful!) or email:
I almost fall into the trap of this. The pretended to be IRS and gave me a real police station number that for some reason when I call back it goes to them again. They said there is a warrant to arrest me because I failed to respond and asked me to buy GreenDot ($3,900) in order to cancel warrant and do outside court settlement. I even bought those GreenDot things ($500 each) and thank God I saw this website and comments right before I gave the number to them.
Thanks to all of you who provided the comments. This really saved me $4K.
Ya, I got a call from someone with Indian accent and telling me this is calling from IRS and I have a criminal case against me. I asked for the phone number and he gave me the 202-239-5555, which I expected to be a 1800 number. He also asked me call him back as soon as possible with the same number. But I never called them back and they tried to call me 2 times after that ..
I got the same call from a guy with an Indian accent. Gave me a case number and also told me his name was Robin Montero. Also asked me to call back at the same number and dial x207 to connect with someone by the name of Nick Spencer. I tried calling back, but kept getting disconnected every time I entered the extension. Glad I read this post.
I also got call from Robin Montero . He gavr me some case id number or something . But by the time I was talking I knew he is some one from India as I am from India too. I started shouting at him and threatened him of a police complaint he too became aggressive and said he will file a case against me and get me arrested . I told him do whatever you want and hung up.
I got the same call Yesterday evening, luckily I was on another call they called me twice and left me a VM and I tried to call them but it never connected. I know this kind of scams are happening I tried to call them back when I have 2 phones with me so that I can call 911 and track the fraud call but the fake IRS guys never picked my call.