I have been receiving telephone calls from this number asking to speak to my Mom who has been deceased for many years and then had my name. Said there was a lawsuit against me and needed to send paperwork to my attorney.
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:
If this helps anyone, I managed to track this number to the carrier, Ymax, (202) 241-9140. As I said in a recent post on a differant number, I got some results by talking to them direct. Some of these carriers might dump one scumbag's business to avoid the FTC crawling up their a** with a microscope. It's worth a try. Maybe if they get enough pi**ed off people calling, like every hour or so, they'll start screening prospective clients a little closer.
Art
I got a call from these people last week (202-241-7166) and i called him out on his scam and at one point knew he was had and then he started talking real dirty and profane which then confirmed that he really didn't work for the IRS. I got another call just today and I pretended like I was listening but then mocked him by saying Hello Hello Hello and then finally he gave up and hung on me! What's the point? What's the scam even? He calls to say that you need to call the exact number that he just called you from to give them a case id. I called the other day and did that, and in his normal voice, he was like Is this ... (stated my name here). I think they have it figured out that they can't sucker me in .. but I still don't get what the point is. Watch out, my aunt recently got had by 20K probably by these same people.