I got a call from here saying my name was picked by the government grants program. For 7000. But I got to go to monet gram and wire 247 and they'll turn around and send me 7247. Is this a fraud?
My mom experienced the same thing. A threatening recorded message left on her machine:
Some excerpts:
"Sorry to inform you IRS has criminal allegations against you. If you dont call back you will be arressted all you assets will be (some gibberish about 11 Judicaial members not being able to save you) Thank you have a nice day"
As from the above post IRS will never call and communicate by mail.
My course of action.
Step 1 report to FCC do not call. Its against the law to leave a recorded phone message in the first place.
the threats left on the message are scary.
Same thing...man with heavily Pakistani or Indian accent says he is from the IRS and calling about a very serious violation. When I said to him, "Are you kidding? This scam has been on the news. Please take my name off of your list." He started to blabber about something else and I hung up on him.