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:
Which officer would that be, in which city or county of United States? I would like to call him.
When we talked to the scammer, my husband and I thought there were allah prayer calls in the background. Wherever they are, these Islamic people are monkeys of violence and scams.
What does Islam have to do with calls of this nature trying to steal information? Have you heard prayers of different religions at all? Do you think it's fair to assume that you heard someone praying? It is unnecessary to associate those of Islamic beliefs with violence, or to refer to them as animals. It is offensive to refer to any individual, foreign to the U.S. or not, as anything other than person with a religious belief. There's bad people everywhere and a shame that so many will be falsely accused of sharing extremist views, which is untrue. Just because someone is different than you, doesn't make them a monster. Please stop being a part of a society that lumps all good individuals in with the bad.
80% of these are from India.. There are articles all over the internet along with voice tests. They are known also to use voice masking or attempt to - its very laughable. The one I messed with a few month's back sounded like he was 20,000 leagues under the sea.