I received a call on Monday, then another on Tuesday (23 & 24 June, 2014), both calls claiming to represent "IRS Tax Crime" and "IRS Debt Crime". In both cases a man speaking in broken English with an accent that seems to be Indian or Pakistani, the second time a man claiming his name is "Steven Smith". They were extremely hostile and aggressive, threatening to have the police arrest me within two hours and claiming that I would not be able to post bond to get out of jail for at least 72 hours. They said repeatedly that they were "IRS officers". They asked if I had a lawyer, and then told me that the IRS, itself, filed an affidavit stating that I owe over $7,000. When I asked if the man could wait a moment while I grabbed a pen and some paper, he insisted there was "no time for that". He repeatedly asked me if I wanted to go to jail or if I wanted to settle out of court. I asked if he could tell me the case number and he refused saying this was urgent and that I needed to decide at that instant if I wanted to settle out of court. I insisted that I needed more information, like the case number, and that was when he hung up on me after shouting that I was going to jail.
The police never came.
Some points:
1) I cannot find any "Debt Crime Unit" on the IRS official site; IRS.gov
2) If it were legit they would willingly have offered the case number and the agent's employee number.
3) The IRS cannot file an affidavit against anyone on their own. An affidavit must originate from a third party person. An affidavit is a statement of witness testimony. Prosecutors and law enforcement can't legally create their own affidavits to base a criminal investigation on. It must be some independent third party witness who is saying "I believe this to be the case".
4) The real government agents would have been so much more professional and not emotional, fraudulent and threatening.
5) There is a document of "Tax Payer's Bill of Rights", which guarantees you certain rights, including the right to have the allegations presented via mail in printing, and to be informed of the case number, among other information.
Message left on answering machine on the same dates as above post. I pick up that it was a scam because the person said he was calling from the internet revenue services. When I called back first time it was a website add and the second time there was a recoding that the person I was calling was not receiving messages. Right after I got a call but the number was blocked.
The man speaking in broken English with an accent that seems to be Indian or Pakistani, He sound extremely hostile and aggressive, threatening that I must call him right away.
Numbers register on caller ID Tel 02-341-1439 and 202-341-6439