Thank you for posting this issue, we have had 2 calls in 2 days from a foreign speaking individual that told me I had to hang up and call Steve Sebastian @ 202-751-2576 right away. His opening comment, was that we were meant to receive an certified letter the week prior and it was un-deliverable because of our not being home at the time. He claimed that Mr. Sebastian was his supervisor and a agent for the U.S Treasury Dept. Yesterday I initially tried calling the number a few times, however was unable to make a connection. I gave up after 7 attempts an figured it for a scam. Today, the same person called back and told my wife, that I need to call again, when she suggested this was some type of scam, the guy hung up.
call from ,An individual claiming to be a representative of the U.S. Department of the Treasury . called on my wife's phone and told her for me to call them right away or my lawyer to call them
There is a fairly common IRS or "tax scam" being practiced by scammers in both Canada and the USA.
USA tax payers should read this:
http://www.irs.gov/uac/Tax-Scams-Consumer-Alerts
Note particularly the links at that site, warning of the scam!
A shorter explanation is Scam #11, as shown at
http://phonehelp.2truth.com/facts.html
That site also shows how other 800notes visitors have reduced the number of telephone scams and telemarketing calls they receive. (That site also has a link to Amazon's phone blocker devices and apps, as well as a page showing various government sites that accept complaints or warn about scams.)
Just got the same kind of message on my machine. He sounded like maybe he was from India but said his name was Andy Gibson from the Dept. of Legal Affairs at the U.S. Treasury. Said either I should call or have my lawyer call or I might be in a legal mess.
Received the same call Tuesday. Indicating I needed to call the U.S. Treasury, it was imperative that I call there is a legal suit against and I might want to call my lawyer. He too had an accent from Inda.