This is a scam!!! I checked into this while on hold with the individual. He could not state what year the taxes were owed from. I have dealt with the IRS and when you talk to them they provide specifics on year and type of taxes (income, employer, etc.). When he returned from being on hold for 10 minutes I told him he can cut the jokes, I knew it was a scam. He immediately hung up...LOL. I was not provided a company name other than trying to represent the IRS
This is a scam!!! I checked into this while on hold with the individual. He could not state what year the taxes were owed from. I have dealt with the IRS and when you talk to them they provide specifics on year and type of taxes (income, employer, etc.). When he returned from being on hold for 10 minutes I told him he can cut the jokes, I knew it was a scam. He immediately hung up...LOL. I was not provided a company name other than trying to represent the IRS
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:
First I received a voice mail and when I tried to respond to it, I was told the voicemail box was full, but immediately after that I received a call from this number telling me that there is a law suit about to be brought up against me. Knowing it was a spam I hung up the phone.
He tried to scam me, but when I called him out on it and told him to go back to his own f-ing country and scam his own f-ing people, he hung up and would not answer the phone when I tried to call back.
I keep receiving phone calls from this number. It is obviously a scam about a lawsuit being filed against me from the IRS. No specifics are given, so I know it's not official. Has called 5 times in two days, leaving messages each time.