I got a call a few days ago from this number - said he was an IRS agent and started asking if I knew I had unpoaid taxes? when i asked - since when does the IRS call people to ask about unpaid taxes he just cut me off and kept going with his script. Then I told him to send me a letter in the mail and he hung up.
Same person called today. Said his name was Officer David Cooper from the criminal investigation branch of the IRS and asked if I knew i was a subject in an IRS investigation.I could tell he had a heavy accent - suspect Indian. Told me they sent letters in April and September of last year and now if I dont call back in 2 hours an arrest warrant will be issued for my arrest. Then asked if I have a criminal lawyer he can contact. Verified my name and address. It was so obviously the same person who had changed his story about the mail because I asked about it...
The caller posed himself as an IRS agent and threatened arrest for not paying taxes and asked if I have a lawyer. When I hung the phone down once, he called again and asked as to why I hung the phone down and wondered if I do not know if I am going to get arrested.
There is a fairly common IRS or "tax scam" being practiced by scammers in both Canada and the USA.
USA tax payers should read this:
http://www.irs.gov/uac/Tax-Scams-Consumer-Alerts
Note particularly the links at that site, warning of the scam!
A shorter explanation is Scam #11, as shown at
http://phonehelp.2truth.com/facts.html
That site also shows how other 800notes visitors have reduced the number of telephone scams and telemarketing calls they receive. (And, a link to Amazon's phone blocker devices and apps is there).
I got a call a few days ago from this number - said he was an IRS agent and started asking if I knew I had unpoaid taxes? when i asked - since when does the IRS call people to ask about unpaid taxes he just cut me off and kept going with his script. Then I told him to send me a letter in the mail and he hung up.
Same person called today. Said his name was Officer David Cooper from the criminal investigation branch of the IRS and asked if I knew i was a subject in an IRS investigation.I could tell he had a heavy accent - suspect Indian. Told me they sent letters in April and September of last year and now if I dont call back in 2 hours an arrest warrant will be issued for my arrest. Then asked if I have a criminal lawyer he can contact. Verified my name and address. It was so obviously the same person who had changed his story about the mail because I asked about it...
I just received this call this morning.. he said his name was David cooper and had a heavy Indian accent. .. refused to tell me why he was calling and kept saying something about tax fraud in 2008 when I didn't file until 2009...