My elderly mother received a phone call today threatening to arrest her in relation to a legal petition notice and this call was the official file notice. She is supposed to call 213-457-3575 to speak with an officer to prevent filing in federal court. The Officer on the phone identified herself as "Judy Smith" no badge number given and the caller was obviously not a real person but a computer/robo voice. This was reported to IRS as a phishing scam
Yes this is a scam. I received a similar call yesterday, July 29, on my home phone. The message, from a female, stated that I had a suit filed against me for back taxes and that I needed to comply or be arrested. I laughed when I heard this. First off, It's illegal to make threats like that under the Consumer Credit Protection Act. Secondly, and this I know for a fact for having dealt with the IRS in the past, they will not contact you by phone, only by mail. Thirdly, the IRS doesn't refer to themselves as "officer", they are "Agents". Fourthly, I absolutely know that I do not owe "back" taxes to the IRS on any level so, therefore I know this is a SCAM!
I also received a call from this number. He said I owned back taxes. Said I would be arrested and I also owned $5480.00 in back taxes. I don't file taxes anymore. I'm on disability.
Message from Officer Judy Smith of the IRS telling me I am about to be arrested. My neighbors are getting the same type of call. I just ignored the call.
Thank you all for posting about this SCAM!!
I just received a phone call from an elderly friend who was worried because he had received a call from that same #, with the same exact story.
I tried to reassure him that the IRS would not be calling and leaving a msg. like that, and decided to do a reverse # look-up on it while I still had him on the phone.
After a couple of searches I found this site, and read him the first (last?) 2 posts, which set his mind at ease hearing that other people have gotten the same call in the last day or so..
So, Thanks again for sharing... Gotta love the Internet!! :)