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.
After reading your comment, we did some checking into it. You did have an interesting point. We called up our local phone company and asked them if we are allowed to record a known IRS scam in our state. For phone scams like that you ARE allowed to record the conversation. We did some online investigation and listened to actual phone call recordings in incidents like this one that my friend had. We proved that it was an IRS scam and, legally, for those types of phone calls you are ALLOWED to record the conversation. We even called the real IRS and the police and they too said it was no problem. You can legally do it if you know that it is actually a IRS phone call scam.
Unfortunately these IRS telemaggoters are based overseas and that makes it next to impossible to do much of anything unless the country of origin is willing to get involved. A friend of mine went through one of these calls and actually recorded the whole thing. My mother received two of these calls and I saved one of the voicemail message they left. I tend not to answer calls from unknown numbers, but if I knew it was an IRS telemaggoter I just might answer the call in order to record it myself.
The following site is very similar to what happened to my friend. Go to this site and click on listen. http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered ... aud-sounds-like
he was trying to sell me gay porn and hung up when I said I was a Christian and not interested in that kinda horrible stuff. Isn't that against the law to try and sell porno on the phone?
These IRS scammers DO read what you post anywhere online and WILL attempt to hold it against you. Please click on this link and listen to what others have recorded from the IRS scam: http://800notes.com/~sys~/r/?eu=U2apxWLzRmb19 ... 5yd3d3LvoDc0RHa