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:
received same messages as above from 202-241-9729 & 202-239-7184. Thanks to all who posted the same thing, not that I had anything to worry about I just don't like the fact that these idiots contacted me. Went so far as to have the police come and listen to the messages on my machine so they could document this incident incase it escalates. When I contacted the 2nd number the foreign man on the other line was very hostile when I ques. the legitimacy of his call.
Received 6 calls on 08/25 from Officer Mark and then one this morning, 08/29 @ 0610 from Chris. Of course, did not return any of the calls. Chris ended the message with GOD bless. What a scam.
Got the call from "IRS" saying that I am under the federal investigation, was scared, then googled the number 202-241-9729 and got this topic. Thank you guys, for sharing the story.