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 was contacted at my place of work. they called with a recording saying to call them back. i did call back to see what the call was in regards to. the person that answer said "what is your name?" i answer and the person said we are not calling for your business we are calling you.
I was like why is a a warrant in my name and why haven't i received any letters? the person said we are calling you to notify you of this matter.
i hang up the phone and the person called again and said why did you hang up? i made up something and he said i you hang up again the warrant in your arrest will be effective. i you dint want to be arrested you need to explain to me why you committed fraud to the IRS.
i answe that i didn't do nothing illegal and that i would wait for a notice. he said okay but their is an officer that will come to your house to arrest you. if you think you did nothing wrong then we can resolved this matter outside of court. he read a disclosure and said if i agreed or not to be guilty? i said no, and hang up again he called again with a really bad tone harassing me and saying i could go to jail for 3-5 years or pay a bail for 75,000.00 dollars.
I just received a call from this number. It's same description that the other person has described that he has like Indian or Middle East accent. He told me to pay the deposit for APS electric company. If I don't pay, my power will cut off. He told me to go to Frys market and buy two money orders total of $895. I just asked for his name and it was Daniel Lawerence the supervisor from APS. I knew it was a scam. Then I called APS to confirm and they said it was a fraud and I paid all my bills on time. Please becareful with this number.