Found 2 voice messages when I got home. Both were from Alex of "the Department of Legal Affairs, U.S. Treasury". His tone of voice was friendly, but his message was intended to be scary. Although I could barely understand what he said because of his extremely thick accent, I caught the words "enforcement action" against me and "your attorney", and he was trying to help me avoid "a big legal mess". He was obviously reading from a script. I tried to call him back twice so I could tell him what I thought of his lies and attempted scam, but the number was busy both times.
This same person, under the name "Alex Katore", who had a heavy foreign accent, and another named "Steve Sebastian", called me threatening me with 6 months in prison and demanded I send $400 through a wire transfer by 6:00 pm on December 17, 2013. I sent the money with a card by giving him the security code on the back of it before I realised it was a scam.
My wife heard a message on the answering machine. A call from David Baxter, foreign accent, stating he was with Dept of Legal Affairs, United States Treasury, The call was from, 213 area code which is Los Angeles. Advising me to contact him about a "serious legal enforcement against my name" He advised that I could have my attorney call him, ( my attonrey agrees this is a scam) This needs to stop.
My mother received a phone call from this same number with the same scenario. The caller used the names Alex Katore and Steve Sebastian and also informed her not to discuss this matter with anyone other than her attorney. Sadly, it scared her so much that she actually paid sent $400 to them using a Green Dot Prepaid card. I strongly advise everyone to be aware of this scam. It is truly sad that people would rather steal from other hard working individuals than earn their money the right way especially this close to Christmas.