we got a call from IRS and asked to call back at 202-558-4550. I did call back the person who answered said IRS and told him What is this for? He said he will call he never did. I called back later and he said just ignore the call. But I did call IRS and they told me everything is fine but be careful, may be someone is trying to get your info.
I got the call as well from 202-558-4550 and the guy threatened me saying that I go to Jail for 7 years if I don't settle my due with IRS right away. OR I get to pay the penalty $250000. I had to believe this guy because I owe some tax dues for IRS. He want me to go to the bank and take cashier's check and then go local IRS office and then pay it there while I am on the phone call. He said he is going to tell where to go for local IRS office.He was asking me if I have enough battery for at least an hour to stay live on the call. He threatened me that I loose my status and get deported after the jail period if I disconnect the call. ALso he don't want me to talk with anyone until I finish whole process. I realized this as a scam after all this talk and told that guy to go to hell.
It is a big scam.
The phone has no voicemail setup but he claimed it IRS hotline.
Please be careful.
Someone called me from this number and told me it's irs hotline and start filing charges against me and told me I'll go to jail. When I call back again he told me he'll press charges if I call back again. I called is to make sure and they said they are not the who called
We got the similar voice mail as well. And the caller ID had PRO RES OFC ( pretending to be Office of Professional Responsibility) and the Phone # was 1-800-829-1040 ( pretending to be IRS hotline). Voice mail was asking us to call back @ 202-509-0681 and the contact person was Kevin James/Jones - Criminal Investigations Officer. When we called back, the way the Officer spoke was not sounding right, though he quoted Internal Revenue code and the read out the list of violations with respective code. The crime charged is money laundering with the intent to evade tax. As we were on the phone, we were checking the IRS website also and somehow landed on the page for Tax scams where there was an article about this Telephone scam. But we couldn't ignore also as the Caller ID was looking genuine and the threats from the Officer like Arrest, Deport, fine of 245,000 etc.. really got us. Looks like immigrants are being targeted, especially the ones who became US citizens recently. Most of the immigrants send money outside US regularly to support their relatives back home which is being targeted for this scam. This call really got us as we started to believe, may be we missed something.. A day of our life went in calling IRS hotline, our CPA, and in looking for Local Taxpayer Advocate to confirm that this is really a scam. Finally we came across this blog that gave us the relief.
But he does seems to know our Phone information, our address and our last 4 digits of SSN. We did not give out the full SSN luckily. But who knows he might be having that also. Please visit irs.gov and register your Phone numbers in the National registry for donotcall list. Hope we are not victims of Identity theft.
Thanks you bloggers.
Got call from above who left message to call back urgently due to tax fraud involving my ssn.
They called back and asked for my wife. When I told I was her husband the sob hung up.
First call requested to call 202 558 4550... I have tv caller I'd and oddly enough number that appeared was 800 829 1040,,,,