Confirmed fraud attempt (criminal investigation department of IRS script). 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:
We received a very threatening message from a man claiming to be an IRS officer on our voice mail claiming that an arrest warrant was issued for me and my wife because we owed back taxes.
When I called back that # 202-241-7818, a man answered the phone. His name sounded like John Wyatt with an Indian accent (not American Indian but Asian Indian) . When I asked what was the reason for the arrest warrant, he indicated we owed thousands of dollars in back taxes.
I said I would visit the local IRS office to clear it up and I hung up.
When I pulled up my tax transcripts for the last 7 years by visiting IRS.gov, we are current on our taxes and it is very obvious this “officer” is a fraudulent person.
I got a phone call from a man with a heavy Indian or Pakistani accent and claimed to have a warrant for my arrest and was to answer his call by today if not the warrant for my arrest was issued. I called my father in total panic. I have never been in any trouble in my entire life. My dad assured me it had to be some type of scam and we researched online and we found this website and indeed it is a scam so please be ware... So sad I hope these people are caught and prosecuted.