Have received this call twice on my home answering machine this week. Didn't call it back, obviously a good idea. Thanks to everyone posting their experiences.
I received a call at 11 am on Saturday Aug 30, Pacific time. A Pakistani-accented man claimed to be from the IRS and claimed that I had serious delinquencies in my personal taxes that they needed to discuss. To my protests, "Is this a joke?" and "The IRS transacts business by mail", he insisted it was serious and that at least two notices had been returned as undeliverable. He stated it was important for me to respond to the above number and that the officer at the number, who he identified as "Jacob Barker" was working that day. He said my assigned case number was CF47315.
After hanging up, I called the number and received a "voice mailbox full" response, which was repeated again that afternoon. On Tuesday I called again; the call seemed to be answered but nothing further happened. That's when I googled it as a scam.
This is the send phone call I got from this number in a few weeks. The first time she said her name was Detective Julie Smith from the IRS. Yesterday she said her name as Officer Julie Smith from the IRA (guess she got demoted)
Anyway, we all know the IRS does not contact you by phone only by mail. There are no Detectives or Officers with the IRS (maybe an Agent).
My client called me and told me she received a call from a very
rude IRS agent saying she owed a lot of money. She called me
immediately. I called the number he called me back and told him
he is not an IRS agent and I just reported him to the fraud department
at the IRS. He called me a f------ [***] and hung up.