I received a call with foreign accent stated he was from the IRS and that a claim was filed against me. It is a scam.... beware! 347-321-9805 is the number he called from,
I received a message today, 11/13/2014, for a second time. A person with heavy Indian accent says "Criminal investigation of Internal Revenue Service .... notice given in your name ..... serious allegations ...". The last name matches with mine but the first name doesn't. I don't understand why IRS uses such a number. I have not returned his call back.
Got the same call for the 4th time today. Strong indian voice. Calling regarding IRS investigation and I was thinking of calling back until I read these post!
This scam has generated more than 20,000 complaints nationwide.
The IRS has a hotline to report the call at 1-800-366-4484, but the volume of calls is so high it is better to report at
http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/. There is a special tab just for this scam!