I just got a call from this phone number from an Indian guy as well telling me I have someone working on my legal affairs about a case against me...lol I was told to call the same number as above....they called from 909-271-3242
I got a message from Chris Wilcox with an accent. I called back and I spoke with Glenn Barnes (Badge# 78655) telling me that they starting legal proceedings and they have warrant for my arrest. Also, within 2-hours an officer will be here to arrest me. He said I owe $4,000 in back taxes from 2009. Also, Glenn said they try reaching me over the months and didn't get any response from me and a payment plan was not an option. That the gov't consider me a criminal and I have spend 6-months in jail. I told him I didn't owe any back taxes and I didn't get any calls or letters from anyone stating that I owe. So he transfer me to a Robert Price who told me about gov't checks that I can get at Vons. I told him that I didn't have the money and I try to see if I can borrow it. He told me to make the phone call while he was on the phone but I couldn't. I ask if I can call back and that when I found out about the scam. He called back and I told him, I talk to my brother and inform me that it a scam. So he told me I'll be arrested within a couple hours.
I just received a call from Christopher Wilcox at this number. He said he was with the Department of Legal Affairs at the US Treasury. He asked for me by name, and confirmed my address and told me that there is legal action pending against me. He asked me if I have received the notifications in the mail. When I told him I had not, he told me to call 909-271-3242 and ask to speak to the US Treasury Officer. I asked him several times who he was calling from, what his name was, why he was calling, and finally, what would happen if I called that number back. He finally hung up on me. I was suspicious from the beginning of the call because of the background noise and his strong Indian accent with the American name. We have had over a dozen calls the last 2 years from the "Windows IT Dept" trying to convince us we had a virus on our computer. It's funny to me that these people are still trying to SCAM us. Now if they call, and I have the time, I like to mess with them. Asking them crazy questions and telling them they are wrong. I guess I should report them.
This is a scam - they have tried calling me from 2 numbers 323 786-1105 and 909 666-8128. They will say you owe money to the dept of legal affairs - all you have to say is that you have reported them to Federal Trade Commission and they will hang up immediately,
I just got a call from this phone number from an Indian guy as well telling me I have someone working on my legal affairs about a case against me...lol I was told to call the same number as above....they called from 909-271-3242
This is a Pakistan or India based IRS scam. Do not fall for it. The IRS does not initiate any legal action via phone.
Read http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/press/press_tigta-2014-03.htm
As general background information, here are a few things you can do:
1) Report it to TIGTA under http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/contact_report_scam.shtml especially if you have become a victim (lost money, gave personal information etc.). You can also file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission at ftc.gov/complaint (include “IRS Telephone Scam" in your complaint). This way you can also help the government establish specific fraud patterns.
2) Help kill their phone lines but not by calling them back directly (the number may be spoofed and repeat calls by you may - under exceptional circumstances- amount to harassment). The scammers use Voice over IP lines (e.g. magicJack (Ymax corporation)) to make it seem as if they are calling from the US. This is always against these companys' terms of service and can lead to immediate termination of their contract and blocking of their IP addresses for future attempts to register. Do a reverse look up of their telephone number (e.g. www.whitepages.com) to identify the Voice over IP provider and report it to the company and/or law enforcement (local police and/or state attorney general)
3) If you are really annoyed: call or write to your representative in Congress. As these scams happen all over the country maybe this will trigger a reaction and provide US law enforcement agencies with the political backing and the resources they need to work in India and Pakistan together with local authorities (it can happen, read: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/ex-call-cen ... mmission-320427). A US task force has already been set up in Jamaica to nab scammers there (see http://www.ice.gov/doclib/news/library/reports/cornerstone/cornerstone7-1.pdf). You can use the following template for your letter (more powerful!) or email: