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:
I just got that same phone call about he was at the Headquarters for the IRS in Washington about discrepancies with my income tax from 2002-2012. Beware of these scams the phone# he called me from was 202-241-7190 he said on my answering machine his name was Officer Eric Baca I think, and when I called him back he said his name was Michael Brown
and his badge# 679856. I let him have it. I don't fall for calls like this. IRS will not ever call you the way he did. They will notify you by mail.
this same guy from the number 202-280-7296 as well as this one saying that if I didn't comply with a payment to the department of treasury that a warrant would be put out for my arrest the same day. He left two different numbers to call him back on he had a middle eastern accent. I have kept all the messages from this guy and im going to my police station and reporting this also now calling from 523-655-4855 and 522-655-4815 and 520-653-4855 oviously this is a scam and now they are using many different numbers
I have to admit that i was given quite a fright what with the sherriff calling me after I hung up to tell me he was on his way. I almost wondered right up to the part where they wanted cash, only cash would do. Right now 2k cash in my apartment. Cash, who uses that anymore?