Middle Eastern accent or Asian have you or your attorney call, this msg is time sensitive and extremely urgent...called himself Officer Mike Jones. Call 202-241-8290 don't disregard this msg, if you or your attorney do not return the call I can only wish you a wave of luck as the legal situation will be badly enforced on you.
Middle Eastern accent or Asian have you or your attorney call, this msg is time sensitive and extremely urgent...called himself Officer John Parker the Hotline to my tuition is 202-241-8290 don't disregard this msg, if you or your attorney do not return the call I can only wish you a wave of luck as the legal situation will be badly enforced on you.
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:
Just had a call from this number today. Said he was Officer Something or Other with the IRS. That I or my attorney must return the call immediately. Very heavy foreign accent. I knew it was a scam but dialed the number anyway. He answered with just a "Hello." I explained that I was returning a call from a scam artist and was promptly hung up on. I called back and went direct to voice mail. His voicemail identified him as Officer Whomever with the IRS but alas, the mailbox was full. I would have liked to have left him a message.
Left a message yesterday in my voicemail. The guy left his name as Officer John Binder of the IRS. Very thick middle eastern accent. Threatened intense legal action and wished me luck if we did not comply. Two more calls this morning. I answered the first one in which he asked for my husband, who I said was not available. Nothing more followed so I hung up. Second call I hung up on without interacting with the caller. How do I make this stop?