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:
received 3 calls on answering machine saying a complaint against me at my address had been filed. obvious indian accent. guys name "Officer" Harry Johnson. could not understand name of company
Yup.. Got a voicemail with the same message above saying I need to call him back due to a complaint. Thick Indian accent, he left several messages on my phone. At the end of his voicemail he said "May God help you."
Well I got the same type of call he called me three times 1030-1135-1138 all in the am on 11-12-14 called him back a few times blocked, left him a message, and told him he was a p###y..... I don't have time for a stupid guy to call me
I got this call too and the guy gave me all sort of name. They block most number unless you are calling from the same number they called into. The guy said that he is Chief Officer Kevin Johnson from the IRS. What a bunch of bull crap. Dont fall for it.
Hey, Kevin called me too. Threatened to have me arrested. Little does he know that my ex is a very good lawyer and is now very pissed off. He finally hung up on me when I demanded documentation. Is the IRS really in business with this group? Probably not since my dealings with the IRS have all been through the mail and handled with professionalism.