As others said, the recorded robotic message stated that I (or my legal representative) should contact the number immediately (202-506-9784 Julie Smith)to avoid legal action from the IRS. I erased it and did not call. Glad I was able to validate my suspicions here on this site. The IRS or any other agency for that matter, will always send a letter in writing if it were necessary to contact a tax payer. This is a hoax and scam. These folks should be ashamed - get a job and do something productive with your life.
Voice message that I needed to call back right away "urgent" "do not ignore" and that it was the IRS in DC. Felt it must be scam. I left them voice mail to call me back and will update post if they do. In no case would the IRS make a phone call like this instead of a letter/certified mail. All my taxes are completely up to date. Next time I'll refer them to my cousin, a prince from Nigeria.
received call from someone who said they were IRS Officer Julie Smith, 202-506-9784. I called the number back and spoke with a person allegidly named Alex Watson, 202-506-8096. This is a valid number because I called her back to tell her she was a fraud. Initially, Alex Watson would not let me off the telephone and said that I owed the IRS 6,248.00 and that a warrant for my arrest was issued and I was to be arrested on Monday by a federal marshall. They also referred me to a James Simpock who was allegidly from the US District court in DC. He refused to give me his telephone number. Also, I didn't know that the US District Court was open on Saturdays. I have a family member that works for the AG's office in Boston. I spoke with them and they stated that they were advised off this scam and that everything the fraud told me was what the AG's office was advised of. There are numbers to report this fraud to the appropriate people. once i get this, i will post it.
They just tried to scam us too. It started with a message from a "Heather Gray", at (202) 506-9835. We were then given this phone number, (202) 506-8096, to call back when we talked to a man, and then later his "supervisor", "Anna Jones". (Everyone we talked to had an Indian or Pakistani accent, and wouldn't like have names like Jones and Gray.) Said we owed $6,874 and insisted that we stay on the line, go to Safeway, get a payment voucher, and give them the payment voucher information, or my wife would be arrested. We contacted the IRS Local Taxpayer Advocate service and was told that this was a scam attempt, and that they heard of examples like this frequently. We then looked up this phone number and found the helpful comments cited here, which we used to confront the scammer. (She got quite upset and threatening when we confronted us, claiming that all of the people who commented on this web site were behind bars.)
Scam alert! Pretends to be IRS agent.
I played along and the idiot gave me his name and telephone direct line.
Indian accent. Name Trey Bell.
I was to go to CVS and get payment voucher because of tax fraud,(I know I am all paid up so I just wanted To find out as much as I could. BEWARE
Im supposed to bring 1000 cash LOL and call them from the store to make sure I got the correct voucher. They think people are stupid.