some muslim devil worshiping moron from india can speak english wants to get all the viruses off my computer, wants to download and take control of the computer, i told him to eat [***] and good by
"you or your attorney must call, you under criminal investigation" when asked whom they were tring to contact, they would not answer however, he kept asking me to spell my last name??Believe me, if the irs wants to find a solid citizen they can, anyone can in todays environment!!!
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://m.ndtv.com/article/india/ex-call-centr ... 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:
Either this alleged number is being used for more than one scam (which I have seen here before). Or they typed the wrong number. Nonetheless, its unfortunate that people are falling victim to these operations. I am just glad my mom knows to ignore these bogus calls.
Received a call from male with heavy indian accent telling me he is from microsoft and my computer has a virus.
told him this is a scam but he just kept reading his script to me.
Funny thing is the phone number he called is not linked to any computer program I own.
have received this type of phone call at least 1x week
keep blocking the numbers but the just use new ones