We've gotten several calls, and several people live here so I decided to ask who they were calling for, the young man with a heavy accent couldn't give me a name so I hung up. The next time they called I listened to the recording and pushed 1 to get a person. This time the person barely spoke English and when I told them that my husband was a tax attorney (made that up) and that I wanted the supervisor, suddenly this guy's English skills improved and he called me an ungrateful bi**h and then told me to fu*k off and hung up.
Extremely threatening, claiming to be IRS worker for case #<long number> and there could be penalties of grand jury investigation if I didn't return call. I returned call as "Agent David" and informed person who answered that this call is being traced for geolocation purposes and to please stay on the line for another 20 seconds...person swore a blue streak at me then hung up.
I received a message on my answering machine. Robot call claimed to be IRS and threatening a lawsuit. I called back just to see if I could get anyone on the other end. It went straight to an answering machine telling me to leave my name and phone number. RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I am calling the FCC.
Report the Calls to the real IRS here:
•report the incident to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration at 800-366-4484.
•You can also file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission at FTC.gov. Add "IRS Telephone Scam" to the comments in your complaint.
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Do consider getting a call blocking device or phone.. You can google them and many are around $40.00 or so.If its a cell phone, some already have call blocking, if not, there are free apps on the web that will work for some. You can google this. If you have a smart phone, there is a free app called call control. Iphones appear to have apps also. Another one is called Mr. Number.