Called saying there were from the "legal department" but failed to tell me the company name. Said it was a legal matter and the police would be arresting my wife in the morning if she didn't call back. SCAMMERS!!!!! I hate these pieces of [***]!
That just happened to us! As they did not indicate which legal affairs department and the information was severely garbled, I figured it was someone trying to sell us something. In any case, we did not call back, but decided to investigate. Just as I thought, it's a scam. There are too many of them out there.
Unfortunately I also received this call yesterday. Everything you say here is true. This people are heartless and very threatening. They had me on the phone for over 3 hours and scared me by saying they were going to arrest me and I would be in jail for a minimum of 6 months. It was frightening and I have two children and my husband is out of the country on business. Needless to say I gave them $9,000. When I challenged them and questioned if this was fraud I received an incoming call from 911. Said I was questioning them and therefore they would have to issue the arrest warrant. It felt very real! I am beating my self up now as I feel like a complete idiot!!! I have been in contact with the police, filed a report with the IRS about the fraud. I am just an emotional wreck!
This just happened to me too and I'm an emotional wreck, especially when you are bullied into thinking that you owe taxes and that the police are going to arrest me in 45 minutes without bail! Even though I don't fall for these scams, what they said seemed very real. They said to go to the bank and withdraw the money and then they would tell me what store to purchase vouchers which I would send to the US Treasury Dept in DC. If I paid today then they would waive the arrest warrant which would happen in 45 minutes. The thing that made me super suspicious was that he said that I had to be on the phone with him the whole time when I was at the bank. Anyhow, I just hung up the phone and prayed that it was a scam and then I found this website. Anyway, I don't think you should beat yourself too hard because they are so threatening. I'm contacting the police and IRS tomorrow.
Just handed over $9Gs to a perfect strange? Using untraceable Green dot money paks? So, anyone could just call you up threaten you and you'd pay them? How does that work? You didn't bother to check with anyone on this? And you stayed on the line for THREE HOURS? Christ. Why'd you do that? Why didn't you check with the local police? I mean you actually went out and loaded up Greendot money paks and didn't ask anyone for any assistance about this?
People like you are keeping these people in business, do you know that? Christ! $9Gs!
I mean do you actually believe that the IRS operates that way? Just cold calls people?
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Why, after all these years, are people still falling for this garbage?