My husband received a call today from a officer Kevin or Alex Brown both claiming they were from the IRS 204-464-2556. I was at work and was thankful you had this posted. I did return the call to them from and auxilary line from my work and told them I was going to report them. we need to catch them !!!!!!!!!!
they represent them self as IRS. They were willing to settle out of court discrepancy in tax return for Y2001-Y2005
Both speak with easy recognizable Indian accent. I asked guy for his information as I going report him to FBI. He hang phone immediately
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 but not by calling them back directly (the number may be spoofed and repeat calls by you may - under exceptional circumstances - amount to harassment). 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://m.ndtv.com/article/india/ex-call-centr ... 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:
Bandwith is the service provider for 202-464-2556. To report them to Bandwith it only takes a few clicks. Go to http://bandwidth.com/. Scroll to the bottom and click on 'Acceptable Use Policy'. Then click on 'Click here to report an AUP concern'.
They say they are the IRS calling regarding my son. It is very upsetting. I tell them to remove my name and number from the list and they just hang up. It is clearly an indian/pakistani accent.