This is a confirmed fraud attempt. 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 help the government establish specific fraud patterns and support the efforts to track these "scambags" down.
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 use and can lead to immediate termination of their contract and blocking of their IP addresses for future attempts to register. However, most of the time only law enforcement can initiate the contact with the telecom company if you yourself are not a customer. Therefore, do a reverse look up of their telephone number (www.whitepages.com) to identify the Voice over IP provider (e.g. Ymax, Level 3 Communications, Bandwidth.com etc.). Then, if you cannot file a complaint yourself at the telecom company's website or over the phone (as is e.g. the case with Level 3 Communications), report the scam and the used telephone number to your state attorney general and/or to your local law enforcement agency (by the way: a good idea regardless) so they can get in touch with the company's legal compliance department.
3) Ultimately this is a case for the FBI legal attache in Islamabad or New Delhi. So 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). So if you want a SWAT team kicking in doors of call centers on the subcontinent (and who doesn't), take a little time to write and voice your anger. You can use the following template for your letter (more powerful!) or email:
This is a confirmed fraud attempt. 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 help the government establish specific fraud patterns and support the efforts to track these "scambags" down.
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 use and can lead to immediate termination of their contract and blocking of their IP addresses for future attempts to register. However, most of the time only law enforcement can initiate the contact with the telecom company if you yourself are not a customer. Therefore, do a reverse look up of their telephone number (www.whitepages.com) to identify the Voice over IP provider (e.g. Ymax, Level 3 Communications, Bandwidth.com etc.). Then, if you cannot file a complaint yourself at the telecom company's website or over the phone (as is e.g. the case with Level 3 Communications), report the scam and the used telephone number to your state attorney general and/or to your local law enforcement agency (by the way: a good idea regardless) so they can get in touch with the company's legal compliance department.
3) Ultimately this is a case for the FBI legal attache in Islamabad or New Delhi. So 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). So if you want a SWAT team kicking in doors of call centers on the subcontinent (and who doesn't), take a little time to write and voice your anger. You can use the following template for your letter (more powerful!) or email:
Received two phone calls warning me that my daughter will be arrested for out standing taxes.The caller, identified himself as IRS agent,spoke with a heavy Chinese accent. And when I asked to speak with his supervisor,he also haas a heavy Chinese accent.I had read the warnings of this scam ,and it is still disturbing to deal with these scam artists.In your reports you mention that most of these are from India or Pakistan,these callers were very much Asian.In fact for a moment I wondered if our IRS offices have been overtaken by Chinese who barely speak English.
HPTaekman
The fact that they speak Punjabi, Urdu or Hindi when sufficiently annoyed by a scambaiter is a strong indication that they are calling from India or Pakistan.