Female caller, said name, badge #, and phone #. Claimed I was fraudulent against U.S. Treasury with warrant issued if their not called in two hours. Obvious young college female attempting to sound official using commanding voice. Last week some guy called with same message. using voice over internet phone trough some business server. Phone number actually was house in CA in government house project. Caller ID showed name with number, If number isn't recognized let machine pickup call. Get to many solicitors failing to understand not interested and no money to donate.
Just got the same call, ID says "DEPT OF TREASURY" 202-622-3000. Threatened me with 180 days unbondable jail time, and I needed to hire a criminal lawyer for my defense. "I could settle out of court, or opt to go to court." His name supposedly is Gerald Cohen, and his supervisor's name is David Lebryk. This continued on for about 25 minutes, then he said have a good day and hung up.
The supervisor's name, David Lebryk, was the same name in my incident. I wish I had a tape recorder so I can record these calls and posted somewhere online so others can hear it. Yes, they too threaten to put me in jail for 180 plus days and in addition to closing my banking account.
Received several calls from this number and when I answer they don't reply they just hang up.. I called back disconnect US Dept of Treasury number that's what the machine says.
Read what TerryHC said. It is very IMPORTANT!!! I am his friend and I helped him out on the situation. He does not have a computer. He either uses mine or goes to the public library. When he told me about this issue, I was the one that advised him what to do. I was a little late at first in helping him with this IRS scam but afterwards I was there for him. These IRS scammers WILL read what you post online. And they will threatened to crash your computer when they say that they read what you wrote. They cannot do that. We contacted the REAL IRS and the police and they told us it WAS a scam. I told my friend that if they want to play games with you, you play games with them. A week after they did the scam on my friend, they tried it again. They wanted the codes on the back of the iTunes cards. I told him give them a fake code (write the fake code on a piece of paper because they will ask you several times for the code and they will repeat it back to you). Well, they tried several times to access the code on the iTunes card; it did not work for them. At that point, they told my friend that in two hours a police officer will be at his house to arrest him. Well, more than two hours had passed and nobody came by to arrest him. Fortunately for us I was around when the last incident happened to him. We recorded the whole thing. We called up his phone company and asked if they could post to anyone with caller ID that if they get a call from that number to have it read as: IRS phone scam. The phone company said they will work on that good advice and see what they can do about it.
Actually, depending on where Timothy lives, he could get in trouble for recording-same with you if your state is one of those that has two-party, meaning the person that CALLS YOU has to give PERMISSION for you to record them.