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:
Someone from a 202-241-6169 number call me saying that he was from the Tax office and I was being sued. Then he asked me if I had a lawyer at my job. I hung up cause this sounded like the same people that was trying to give me a lone and I denied it. When I hung up he called back and did not leave me a message.
This guy just called saying he was from the IRS and I owe money. This is a total scam. And karma is a [***]. Here's a related story: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/IRS- ... -267249521.html
Complete SCAM! They claim to be an IRS crime investigator and threatened me with arrest. I Googled the number and found this site. I told them I looked them up and they hung up.
Thanks for this site.
Received a message today from this number. Thanks for the previous comments because I did not return the call. Sounded Iranian and was telling us that we were being investigated by NC and to call.