Just got a call from this company of scammers, claimed they were the IRS, and that I needed to provide information about a debt from 2008-2012, sounds funny same time frame as listed above, right down to the sending of a letter in Jan. 2014. After ripping him a new one, he finally hung up on me after threatening to take me to court and telling me that I am going to be arrested for this.
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 have been getting calls from a guy saying his name is Nick Johnson says he's from the IRS and hat I owe over a $1000.00 and to keep from going to court that we could settle it over the phone. I told him I wasn't crazy the IRS wouldn't call and have m send money over the phone. He told me one day that He was having me arrested. I'm so tired of these sick people calling
I received a call from these guy a week ago, left me a message telling me that I have back taxes from 2008 to 2012 so I called him back when I talked to him he said that I am going to court because I have not respond to the letter he sent me in January so I said send me a copy of the letter and that I am going to wait for the summons from the court because I want to fix this issue, he said is going to take two to three days, almost two weeks have past and I still waiting for my court day. I am glad that I didn't give him my personal information neither my money but not everyone is lucky. I can't believe there are heartless people out there taking advantage.