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:
I just got scammed, Alex Cruz stating he was from the IRS and I was going to have a warrant issued against me- had to $695 for fradulent taxes from 2012-
I received a voice message this morning from Daniel (scammer), left voice message to pay attention for something weird. Just warning people don't get panicked if you find such phone call by someone, speaking in a broken English looks like an un educated person and his way of addressing and leaving message in non- professional just ignore.
If for some reason you are in doubt, contact local law enforcing agencies.
Thanks....
They left a voice mail on Nov 19th It was Daniel speaking in broken english. The message said that there was an arrest warrant against me and I should call back. I had never heard of an arrest warrent delivered on phone so I ignored it as a prank call.
Today they called again and it was Daniel. I played ignorant about the earlier call. I asked him the reason for the arrest. He said that IRS had reviewed my tax returns and found some discripences. I told him that IRS is supposed to send me a notice and they can arrest me only if I don't rreply to their notice. At this point the call was transfered to his supervisor Micheal. Micheal informed me that the notice was sent on Sept 17th and there was no one to receive the notice. He also asked me if I had a lawyer. When I said yes, he wanted to know the phone # of the lawyer. I refused to give him the numbere and he hung up