>>> "YMAX COMMUNCATIONS CORP" which is based in Florida <<<
... is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company that sells magicJacks and provides all the magicJack phone numbers. of which this is one. MagicJacks can be plugged in anywhere in the world there is Internet service and call into the US showing the assigned number for their device.
Scammers can get YMAX numbers in many area codes, but 202 seems to be popular because it looks like they are calling from Washington, DC. Most people seem to associate such calls with the federal government even though a large number of private citizens live within the city limits.
MagicJacks work well for honest people who use them, but they also seem to work very well for scammers who want to hide behind a US number that is very hard or impossible to trace, and that can be used in places where the US cannot get a foreign government to cooperate in bringing the scammer to justice under US law.
Al, I got the same type of message, very hard to understand. Did they also tell you that there was a federal warrant for your arrest and gave you a so called warrant number? he also told me if I don't call back very soon local police would arrest me. the weird thing is though that on my caller ID it shows the number as 1-202-241-2083 yet he gave me a number to call back as 303-241-2083 (303 is my local Colorado area code) the only difference in the numbers is the area code. Did this happen to you as well? Did you happen to call them back? I tried and it went to voice mail. I didn't leave a message but this is really strange, what do they want??
Hello, I just received a call from 202-241-2083, he had a very heavy accent, maybe Indian or arabic, called himself victor, and claimed my wife owed the IRS money and is under a criminal investigation. Go to this web site, http://phonehelp.comuv.com/facts.html and they will show you where to go and what to do to report them. This is a scam so don't think that you are in any trouble. Joe