These people said they were the IRS and agents are coming to arrest Me!! Also they have called me over 5 times the last time stating I need to contact before drastic measures are taken.
I just got a call this morning from this number. Same as James, robocall stating I need to call back immediately to avoid legal action from the IRS.... then it ended the call with "take care". I'm going to guess it's a scam.
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:
I received a call last week and spoke with
A live person-a man with a heavy Spanish
Accent, he was speaking very fast-this is agent -- number--. He went on to tell Me agents were on their way to arrest Me!!! I hung up
and I called My attorneys and they said They believe it to be a scam!!! TODAY, they called Me twice, both calls missed. The last call was a Robocall, stating that I needed to immediately return the call due to serious
Nature and it is a time sensitive issue, call before drastic measures are taken against Me!! Once again, I called My attorney, she said
She dialed the number 5 times and no one would pick up! She had repeatedly told Me this is NOT how TheIRS operates. She even
Gave me A 1800 number to the IRS AND told Me To inform them that I had given My SSN, thinking it a legit call, then realized
It wasn't, She said what happened when
You called?
I said the automated system kept prompting Me to to press numbers for this and that, she said, that's how it is when you call the IRS And when they want to get in touch with you they send you a letter!! I GOOGLE to see if this is a legit IRS NUMBER and found you guys have experienced the same B.S. It's a SCAM!!