I received three calls yesterday from a thick accented Indian with a fake name of Law Office of Mark Blake. This number 202-280-7909 is registered from Ymax Oration Landline in Hyattsville, Maryland, presumably this company owns by East Indian thugs. Their incoming name and number never appears on my display. When I return the call, no body answers, but a brief recorded message to record my name and number. All three (3) calls were threatening with harassment of landing in prison, if I do not pay back (income taxes for past three years) worth $2,000.00. Finally when they me again today, they harass me morr warnings with three federal charges already filed against me in the court. These crooks/scammers are running a spam mills that should be arrested for stealing innocent peoples money. Asked me to buy a blank Green Dot Money Pak (cash card) and fill this card with $2,000.00 cash. Once I load the funds, they asked me to call them back with the PinCode and Reference Number in orde to cash those funds. These are scammers who hacked the Personal Credit Files and I.R.S. data to obtain name and telephone numbers. Please report to FBI, FTC and Treasury-Inspector General for Tax Arbitration at (800) 366-4484 and also block the incoming numbers to avoid further harassment.
I received three calls yesterday from a thick accented Indian with a fake name of Law Office of Mark Blake. This number 202-280-7909 is registered from Ymax Oration Landline in Hyattsville, Maryland, presumably this company owns by East Indian thugs. Their incoming name and number never appears on my display. When I return the call, no body answers, but a brief recorded message to record my name and number. All three (3) calls were threatening with harassment of landing in prison, if I do not pay back (income taxes for past three years) worth $2,000.00. Finally when they me again today, they harass me morr warnings with three federal charges already filed against me in the court. These crooks/scammers are running a spam mills that should be arrested for stealing innocent peoples money. Asked me to buy a blank Green Dot Money Pak (cash card) and fill this card with $2,000.00 cash. Once I load the funds, they asked me to call them back with the PinCode and Reference Number in orde to cash those funds. These are scammers who hacked the Personal Credit Files and I.R.S. data to obtain name and telephone numbers. Please report to FBI, FTC and Treasury-Inspector General for Tax Arbitration at (800) 366-4484 and also block the incoming numbers to avoid further harassment.
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: