My Mom just called and said someone named John Davenport called from 347-467-1194 and asked for me. She told him I wasn't home and he left his name and number. I just tried to call back and got a recording that I had reached a non-working number.
Before I called I did a search of the area code and saw that it was Brooklyn, NY. Curious - last month there were 14 fraudulant charges on one of my credit cards. All the charges were in New York.
My Mom just called and said someone named John Davenport called from 347-467-1194 and asked for me. She told him I wasn't home and he left his name and number. I just tried to call back and got a recording that I had reached a non-working number.
Before I called I did a search of the area code and saw that it was Brooklyn, NY. Curious - last month there were 14 fraudulant charges on one of my credit cards. All the charges were in New York.
A message was left claiming to be a David Miller from the Dept. of Legal Affairs. He had a very thick accent and said I or my attorney (if I was afraid to call back) needed to call right away about an enforcement action against my name. The first phone number he left was 347-960-6509 then he quickly corrected and gave the 347-467-1194 number. Someone must have caught up with their scam at the first number because I see several of the same comments, but I didn't see any yet under this number. It's sick that there are people pulling these scam and some poor unsuspecting person will fall prey.
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.
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Do consider getting a call blocking device or phone.. You can google them and many are around $40.00 or so.If its a cell phone, some already have call blocking, if not, there are free apps on the web that will work for some. You can google this. If you have a smart phone, there is a free app called call control. Iphones appear to have apps also. Another one is called Mr. Number.
For tracfone & straight talk:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id ... .tracfone&hl=en
I got the same exact message on my answering machine this afternoon & I was cracking up as I listened. I could barely understand the guy first off, second I wanted to ask "dept. of legal affairs for what?" Different name though...it was something Thomas. I really wanted to call back & give him a piece of my mind but then figured it's not worth it!
We got the call to. Answering machine logged it in at 5:30 pm. We are in Maine. Sharon what State do you live in? We were releaved to see your post, so we confirmed it was a scam. We will follow up on further action. We are afraid for those who do not think it is a scam. The new stations should be notified in order to get the word out to the general public as well. How many different States have they called, and what is it they are after?