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:
Just had that same call. Asked for his info: he said he was John Smith calling from the Fraud Department of the IRS in Washington DC. Sounded Pakistani/Indian in a room full of telemarketers. Such BS.
We received a similar message on our phone. I am an attorney who has represented clients on IRS audits, so I knew this was a scam when we received a call from this number and a message in barely understandable Pakistani accented English that my husband had to call "before he got arrested." Obviously a phishing scam to try to get our personal information and maybe even get a gullible person to pay something. Still it's unnerving to get a message like this. A legitimate contact from the IRS would be in letter form and would show the IRS agent's name, address and agent identification number, and would originate from a town in your state. Thanks for all the info everyone has provided about this phone number and scam.
Had same call. #1. It becomes bs when I said ok you've made your case . My turn talk to him as nicely as could. And explain to him that he made me out to be some form of low life ! And they where going to put me jail in 90mins . I return the same bs back him. And used words respect trust understanding . An he said he was going listen any more he calling the police and that's 4 hours ago. I call this stuff game time. They don't have an A game! Street corner bs .
I just a call from the same number today, with the exact wording as all the above comments, except the man's name is "Roger Reed," with a very strong foreign accent. Thanks for all the information. Same background noise as described above.