This is a scammer claiming to be from the IRS. Says your being audited in a horrible Indian accent (hard to understand) and 5 criminal charges are being issued with a warrant for your arrest. Tells you to call 800-829-1040. The worst part is the call came in this morning at 7:15!! Luckily everyone in my house is up!!! Reverse lookup says the 800 number is in IL.
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:
Got this call at 9:28 a.m. 09/12/14. So there's an arrest warrant out for me from the IRS? It really was comical and I can't believe anyone would fall for this scam. Sounded like a robot with a really bad southern accent.
A man in a fast, monotone American sounding voice claiming to be from the IRS left two hostile sounding messages within 15 minutes about my ssn having a criminal complaint against it. Continued on that the IRS was sending the case on to Federal Court this afternoon, at which time a warrant would be issued for my arrest. Said to return the call immediately. I did so after the second call. A man with an Indian accent answered. Background noise was that of a busy office. I gave him no information but asked his name... Mr. Brown. Humm, Mr. Brown with an Indian accent..... I had not heard of this scam but this sounded too strange. I hung up.
Called and left message in severe Indian accent. Stated he was from EILS IRS Dept., and there was a legal petition being filed for debt fraud charges. Reported to TIGTA under http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/contact_report_scam.shtml . Looked up area code and it's Washington D.C.