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:
My wife just received a phone call from 202-241-0883 however missed the call and a message was left stating that it was a IRS matter and that the matter is urgent and to return the call immediately.
She was so concerned and worried she called me asking for advise, at first I thought any official communication usually is done via mail or official representative.
She called and a person by Agent Don XXXXX mentioned that a Marshall was attempting to serve her with documents and the "agent" asked if she had an attorney.
This scam needs to stop, aren't there laws governing to false representation of federal agents?
Wasted a good amount of our time, put her in an un-easy mood, almost had to take the day off work.
a very computerized voice left a partial message on my answering machine saying something about the IRS and that I needed to contact them for further information. I have a feeling this is s scam and I will let my local Police department know about it.
The IRS does not call people. My "representative" was either Jean or June Smith (recorded). Very inventive cover name... asking me or my retained attorney to call back and address this "time sensitive" matter before they take legal action.
If the real IRS was going to take any legal action against you, they wouldn't call first to try to work things out, they'd just take the legal action! They're the freakin' IRS, for cryin' out loud!!! "She" ended the message by saying, "Thank. you. and. take. care." Take care? TAKE CARE??? The "IRS" threatens to take me to court one minute, and then shows compassion the next? NOT!
I'm going to follow the instructions mention in the earlier post by RexIRS. I think anyone who gets these calls should do the same.