Report the Calls to the real IRS here:
•report the incident to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration at 800-366-4484.
•You can also file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission at FTC.gov. Add "IRS Telephone Scam" to the comments in your complaint.
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Do consider getting a call blocking device or phone.. You can google them and many are around $40.00 or so.If its a cell phone, some already have call blocking, if not, there are free apps on the web that will work for some. You can google this. If you have a smart phone, there is a free app called call control. Iphones appear to have apps also. Another one is called Mr. Number.
CALLER: This is Andy Parker of the Department of Legal affairs US treasury (allegedly!). A legal claim has been placed against your name. Didn't you see the item in the mail... um No... this sounds like BS to me... why are you calling me with this BS... guy got all defensive and even more vague with his information and eventually told me to call Officer Brian King @ 213-260-3400... I tried calling that number and some guys named Jack answered... he didn't like it when I told him to get a real job... called back a few times and got his v-mail repeatedly... guess he doesn't like calls that waste his time... complete scam... scum of the earth people that should get a real job... I asked how he sleeps at night and looks himself in the mirror... and if he's discussed his line of work with his parents and are they proud of him...
Report the Calls to the real IRS here:
•report the incident to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration at 800-366-4484.
•You can also file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission at FTC.gov. Add "IRS Telephone Scam" to the comments in your complaint.
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Do consider getting a call blocking device or phone.. You can google them and many are around $40.00 or so.If its a cell phone, some already have call blocking, if not, there are free apps on the web that will work for some. You can google this. If you have a smart phone, there is a free app called call control. Iphones appear to have apps also. Another one is called Mr. Number.
Received a call from this 213-260-3400 for my husband. Same thing - Kevin Jones of the Department of Legal Affairs...blah blah blah. Then tells my husband to call because it is in his best interest...and then proceeds to tell us to have a Blessed Day. Seriously? Just called the number back and got the voice mail for Jack someone or another....they both sound like they are from another Country using American names....Isn't there anything that we can do about this? So ridiculous that we even have to deal with this nonsense....
I received the same call and I am an attorney. I found this posted on the US Treasury Website:
Scammers Falsely Purporting to be Calling from the Treasury Office of Inspector General, Office of Investigations; the Treasury Office of Legal Affairs or Emailing from the Office of the Secretary of The Treasury: Scammers call an individual asserting that the individual has been awarded a grant or a similar sum of money and request personal information or a sum of money to “release” the funds. The Treasury does not have such a program. Likewise, e-mails promising a sum of money and purporting to be from the Treasury Secretary or his staff are false. We urge recipients of such calls or e-mails to be extremely wary of any scheme requiring an advance payment for a later promise of funds—these are hallmarks of scams. A similar scam is a caller falsely representing that he is from the Internal Revenue Service or impersonating an investigator from this Office and demanding payment or information. These callers have been described as threatening or abusive, and tell victims they need to make immediate payment to forestall arrest. THESE ARE FRAUDS. PLEASE EXERCISE CAUTION IN YOUR DEALINGS WITH ANYONE PURPORTING TO BE FROM A GOVERNMENT AGENCY AND DEMANDING MONEY OR INFORMATION. Further information concerning one type of these frauds is available at http://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/IRS-Repeats-Warning-about-Phone-Scams.