This guy Bill Taylor said he was Special Agent from the Drug administration left me a message on my answering machine saying he was calling regarding a package with drugs that was delivered to me and asked me to call him back. My phone is on the DO NOT CALL LIST how he got my number is just wrong. Who are these people that just call and make up stories to get your personal information? Someone needs to STOP these people.
Bill Taylor called me to representing himself as special agent and was extremely threatening indicating two agents were going to show up to my house and arrest me in 45 minutes if I did not pay a fine. These folks need to be reported and stopped as I am sure based on their intimadation tactics that some folks have paid.
I want these folks to be arrested and stopped. This was a very disturbing phone call.
Thank you all for posting.
Was called by 2022418151 saying that they were the irs and I owed back taxes. When I wouldn't give them any information I was hung up on. Called back and was hung up on right away.
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 but not by calling them back directly (the number may be spoofed and repeat calls by you may - under exceptional circumstances - amount to harassment). 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://m.ndtv.com/article/india/ex-call-centr ... 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: