He said his name is Peter Brown , but his accent is pure Pakistan/Bangladesh/India.
Said 'You need to pay remaining taxes of $1500 towards IRS as you did a mistake while filing taxes for year 2013 or you will get arrested in next couple of days'...
ROFL.. This guy is SICK... Real IRS people never call to individuals..
I got a call from this number he said he was Peter brown from the IRS. I NEED TO HANDLE SOMETHING, I COULDNT UNDERSTAND WHAT HE SAID, B/C Of his accent.
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:
He said his name is Peter Brown , but his accent is pure Pakistan/Bangladesh/India.
Said 'You need to pay remaining taxes of $1500 towards IRS as you did a mistake while filing taxes for year 2013 or you will get arrested in next couple of days'...
ROFL.. This guy is SICK... Real IRS people never call to individuals..
This is scam, this man called my phone alleging that his name was peter brown stating that i owed taxes from $1154 from 2006 and my name had a warrant out for arrest, but my papers was already at the court house and only he can help me.. that they were going to garnish my paycheck and freeze my accts.. irs dont handle accts over the phone. he had my ss number and address too..