They are scammer.. They said I owe then money ... Tell me to go to target and buy $1000 iTurnes gift card.. I called police.. DO NOT answer their call and pay them money..
Hi, got a phone call from 301.202.7002 this morning from "James Hilson" of the IRS Investigations Department. I asked him his ID number and he replied 256149. I asked him his office address and he stated it was 8401 Corporate Drive, Hyattsville, MD 20785, (which does happen to be an IRS office) but he almost could not pronounce Hyattsville.
He said that the IRS sent me notices and that I was ignoring them and that they were going to take legal action. I asked him the serial numbers of the notices. He said a CP2000 dated 10 Oct 2016, and a CP11A dated 7 Nov 2016.
He had my home address.
I asked him what he wanted, and what action he wanted me to take. He said no action, but that he was going to refer my case to my local office in Virginia, and that there would be a federal court case convened in 3 days for tax evasion.
Apparently the thought is that someone else will call later from the supposed local office in Virginia and demand something.
"James Hilson" had a heavy West Indian or Jamaican accent, but spoke English pretty well. I talked to him for a long time, and wanted him to make a demand, but he deferred on that.
I managed to find that the 301.202.7002 number had been used in a number of scams. Further research indicated that it was registered to a company called YMAX COMMUNICATIONS CORP. in Fort Washington, MD.
As it turns out, YMAX Communications is the company behind the "Magic Jack"--these devices are very popular with scammers who want to disguise their location and identity and apparently they are using it to alter their caller ID (ANI) information to make it look like they are calling from the IRS or from a location different than their actual location. YMAX is not complicit, it just makes the hardware.
A little more research found that "James Hilson" with badge No. 256149 had been active in other scams, using numbers supposedly based in Florida.
I can't wait for the "local Virginia office" to call back with another foreign accent and try to settle my tax evasion case by taking my SSN and credit card number. It's only a matter of time.
I was going to report this to TIGTA, but the damned TIGTA website wants all of your PII, name, address, DOB and SSN. I just don't feel like filling out anything online with my PII in such a compact space anymore, so I decided to post this information here instead.
What surprises me is the persistence of these criminals, and the difficulty in rattling them--they seem to have all the answers, and even invited me to call the number to verify that he was with the IRS.
I called the number back using my computer rather than my landline--and sure enough, an American-sounding woman answered "Investigations Department, how can I direct your call." It sounded like she was in a call center with a lot of other representatives answering lines. So they definitely have a physical location and a lot of employees actively scamming along with them. This is big business, and it would be amusing except that I will bet that they snare a lot of the unwary, because they are pretty good.(
While we appreciate you posting it here, you really should report it to the IRS to do the most good, because as you said "I will bet that they snare a lot of the unwary, because they are pretty good".
https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/contact_report_scam.shtml