Said my physical address and name were under federal investigation and I was being sued by the irs. Said I would be arrested at the end of the day. When I directed him to the fact that I was represented by counsel and tried to refer him to my aattorney he started yelling at me and then hung up. He called a second time the next day, and when I confronted him about being a scam artist he hung up immediately. Dont be fooled by this guy.
This guy called me to let me know of a sweepstake price of 2.5million dollars and when I told him I wasn't interested, since he tried to convince me I had signed a voucher to enter the drawing, He make inexplicit comments and called my parents house number back and tried to block his number numerous times.
Someone is using it for the IRS Scam - wants you to call them back, claiming that your address is under investigation. Don''t answer it or call back... let them leave a message... they close it with "have a blessed day"... don't think that the IRS is that religious.
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: