I received a call from 202-239-7017on my voice mail My wife reconise voice because she talk 8 to 9 months back to these people and we compaline to local police departmet. so I call them back and they started same diloge to scare me I back fired and said see me personaly WE will put you behind bar and he hang up tune of the person looks to me chines action. It is asian or other continual action.
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://m.ndtv.com/article/india/ex-call-centr ... 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:
Received call from this number and they hung up or lost connection. I called back and the connection is very bad and cannot understand person. All I could make our was something about IRS. Told him to hang up and call me back. He hasn't yet. (This call type should really be listed as SCAM.)
Called me many times again about tax fraud claims from 202.239.7017. I answered the phone. He started threatening me in his Mullah accent. I cussed at him and asked why Islam is so full of cheats, dishonest and violent people. He went ballistic.