PLEASE NOTE !!! THESE SCAMMERS ARE IMPERSONATING THE US GOV'T / SEVERAL GOV'T OFFICES AND RELATED PERSONS....BEWARE !!!
- they are also impersonating DEA officials / IRS / FAKE LAW FIRMS etc.... with threats to arrest you unless you immediately send money via wire transfer / western union to some offshore country !!!!! obvious scam !!!
some are landlines...many are cell phones...some are spoofed and linked to offshore foreign call centers / countries !!!!
we've traced back most of these numbers to offshore foreign call centers mostly in INDIA / THAILAND / AFRICA / JAMAICA ETC....
here's a few other numbers posted from the same area code offering a wide variety of scams / fake emails and scams after posting something on craigslist ( old scam ) ...... collecting for non existant " payday loans "....free money / scam giveaways / calling on behalf of a humane society..... $1,000's in free gov't money......... etc etc.....stories change out all the time......and the usual nonsense!!!
** mysteriously call to claim they have several thousand of dollars to send you / give ....just provide your bank account and credit card right away etc etc.........scam scam
-----------IRS Scam----------
The is the scam artists second attempt at getting me. The first time I got a robotic message from this number 1-844-385-9045 claiming legal action was going to be taken against me today if I didn't respond in 24 hours. This is pretty much what happened......
I got a call from someone at this number claiming to be an IRS agent and his name was Petter Brown and he gave me the same person's badge number 22489 and his employee code was 0422 that others on the web site above listed. He had a heavy middle eastern ascent (Indian or Pakistani). He claimed I owed $2391.00 for fraudulently taxes that I had filed in 2011-2015. Then he started informing me that there was an arrest warrant out for my arrest and told me there were 5 Federal charges being issued against me. That I could be accountable for paying up to $95,000.00 and if it went to court and if I couldn't pay it I would be facing 7 years in Federal Prison. I told him that I had been a house wife since 2004-2016 and hadn't worked since then. Then he said there must have been some error on their part and he need to investigate it further, that the arrest warrant would be held until he talked to me tomorrow. He actually told me to get a glass of water and calm down and not worry about it until we talked again. That's when I went to my computer and typed in the phone number(1-844) 385-9045 and seen that it was as I suspected a scam....
This time I just went to my computer and checked this number before returning the call to 202-602-0047 and seen multiple people complaining about the scam here...