Got a call from a guy with a Pakistani accent and an echo indicating an out-of-country call claiming to be with U.S. Department of Treasury saying I was in "big trouble with the IRS" and needed to call. Right. The IRS starts with a snail-mail letter of deficiency and I am all paid up. Being a former tax lawyer I said thank-you very much send it in writing and hung up. Got I call back from a now more irate foreigner who said "how dare you hang up on me." I said, "you do realize you are committing fraud" then hung up again. He called back but I did not bother to answer.
Received two messages left on my answering machine on April 2, 2014, claiming to be Andy Gibson, Dept of Legal Affairs, US Treasury. Telling me that their had been a legal action started on me. That I should have my retained attorney contact him or I would be in a "legal mess". That I needed to make this right. Ending with "have a bless-ed day". He had a heavy Indian accent. I was upset at first and after thinking about it, there is no reason for the US Treasury to file a legal action against me and that the US Treasury would contact me by mail if there was a problem, not by phone. I called the number 213-375-0942 back, they did not answer, but there was a message "This is David Williams, Dept of Legal Affairs, ID 11738, I am busy, leave your name and phone number and I will call you back" (same voice and accent of Andy Gibson). I left a message telling them that if the US Treasury had a legal action against me that they would contact me by mail, not a phone call, and I told them that they were "Idiots". I looked them up on the Internet by name, Dept of Legal Affairs, US Treasury, and they showed up as Scammers. I called the number back and left a message telling them to get on the Internet and look up their names and that they were on the Internet as Scammers and I told them again that they were "Idiots". I filed a complaint with the FTC but I doubt anything will be done. It looks like they use different numbers, different names but with the same scam.
Just got a call from the same bogus Department of Treasury as the other posters. The message I got screams scam. First of all I could barely understand the message as the caller barely spoke English and mumbled everything. Sounded like the caller was reading directly from a script, which they probably were. I actually laughed out loud as I listened to this message on my answering machine.