I had TWO numbers register on my phone:
315-219-4296 (NY)
202-239-6020 (DC)
Told me that I owed $4800 for back taxes 2008 and 2013 and kept transferring me "up" to "higher" officers, and the "highest" officer told me that proceedings to have me arrested were filed and I was too late to resolve it, but he understood that I am a law abiding citizen (I'm a permanent resident, not a citizen, not taken my citizenship test yet, so strike 1 with error), so he would work with me to resolve this issue out of court, and that I'd have to get cash from my bank account and put it directly into the IRS Treasury Officers Account at the Bank of America, and would hold me hostage on the phone until I did it. He did not know how long it would take to drive from where I am to where my bank is, he said that my name is now blacklisted with everyone including the IRS but still not reported yet, and that today is the last day that I have to put money in the IRS account or else I would be arrested tomorrow. (Strike 2, he did not know what my occupation is, or where I work, and this is stated on the IRS tax forms, especially since I have stayed in this occupation my entire working life.) He even gave me "his" "badge number" when I asked for it and told him that I wanted to check to see if he really was with the IRS. I had my own staff working around me to make phone calls and searching on the internet about his number and scams, and he did not know I was doing that.
He gave me 3 stipulations about how I would resolve this problem with the IRS and these are the stipulations:
1. I was to stay on the line with him until I got the money into his IRS account (court submission), and at no time was I allowed to get off the phone, even if I had to go to the bathroom. (I had claimed multiple times I was going to the bathroom and verbally embarrassed him as much as possible with "loud bathroom sounds" I created, including flushing the toilet, crashing and banging around to make it sound like I was suffering through my bathroom breaks)
2. I could only pay through EFTPS payment, which translates to Electronic Federal Tax Payment Systems, but since I'm now blacklisted and my bank would shut down my own account with me, I had to get the money directly out of my bank account and put it into the Bank of America in a banking number he would tell me about as soon as I got there. I could not pay by debit or credit cards, direct transfer, check or money order.
3. My case was under "sub judicial act" which made it confidential, and no one knew of it yet until I would be arrested. Then the Social Security service would not allow me to work for 3.5 years and my bank account will be shut down for 90 days. My employers would know and I could never work again.
Beware these "stipulations" as they're all too good to be true.
I did enjoy telling him that he's scamming me and hung up on him.
I had fun keeping him on the phone and hopefully made him embarrassed with my own toilet scams. Know that these guys ALL have Indian accents, and the IRS does not hire foreigners in another country to do their work, nor call people on the phone.
Interestingly, when he called my iPhone, the number registered as NY, not Washington DC.
Beware.