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.
Do consider maybe getting a call blocking device or phone.. You can google them and many are around $60.00 or so.
In the first place, this is not how the IRS operates. They don't call you. You get a letter. Depending if there is more than one tax year involved you can get multiple letters. Some will even be sent certified. IRS is not going to call out of the blue. I noticed on my Comcast Voice that we actually had 10 missed calls from this number. I have not received any since because I have blocked the number. Interesting you got a call from someone calling them self David, our call was some lady with accent so thick and as I said before with some of the terms she used that we were able to pick up I think she could even be calling from outside the states. You take a real chance calling back these numbers. I've seen posts where people have been charged $20.00 on their phone bill for the privilege of calling them back. This is an out and out scam and there is a lot of scams going on with people using IRS. They are not the IRS. They won't call you. First you get mail then it's up to you to call the IRS. These people are so frigging stupid. I just hope they don't sucker people in. Another scam to beware of is on the internet. My husband has had his computer locked up with a official looking logo, says it's the government and you have to send large amounts of money using a money card only. The government won't operate that way. You get something like that on your computer, do a system restore to get rid of it and move on. Do not ever send anybody any money. These are illegal scams and they try anything and everything. They are not the government and have no government affiliation.
I got the phone call from these guys today! Let me tell you I was FREAKED out!! However I had my mom with me and she didn't freak out like I did. They told me that they were from the department of legal affairs and needed to speak with me about a legal matter.So not knowing what the issue was I called back and spoke with a man who sounded Indian and he informed me that there was a warrant on me for tax fraud for 2010 and that I could go get a lawyer or go to jail.SO naturally I ask him what to do to take care of the matter. He told me that I could mail a check for 1700$ to DC and that this was the only way to pay the IRS. His mistake was not doing his research before calling me. I have had to pay the IRS money with in the last 1 year period so I knew that I could pay online or I could pay by check or money order. I also ask him for the docket number for the case and he hung up on me
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.
Do consider maybe getting a call blocking device or phone.. You can google them and many are around $60.00 or so.
Got the phone call just now from 301-357-8827 telling me legal action was being taken agaist me and that I needed to call someone. When I said I did not want to call anyone he said that legal action would be used agaist me then and hung up. Calling the number back David Williams picked up from Legal Affairs and when I asked for his badge number he said "who the hell are you to ask me for that" and hung up on me.
I reported this to the Maryland police. They should be able to find out to whom this number belongs and who gets the bill. If these people are in the US, tgry need to be deported.