Left Message claiming to be advising me IRS has a lawsuit against me. Returned call - Officer Kevin Parker #98720 is supposedly who I spoke with. Foreign, VERY strong accent.
Insisted I was being audited and owed 4,852. Joke was on him when I told him I hadn't worked since 2007. He asked me if I could prove it. On hold, came back and said courthouse would be notified in the morning. I asked for a 1-800 government number to contact them directly - CLICK, poof he was gone!!!
These are criminal extortionists operating in overseas boiler rooms using VOIP to alter their identities and locations and out of the reach of US law enforcement.
If someone calls saying he's an IRS agent and demands that you send money immediately, hang up.
It's a phone scam.In fact, it tops the IRS "Dirty Dozen" list of tax scams this year, and it's been surging in recent months, the agency said Thursday.
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), which oversees the IRS, has received reports of 290,000 scam calls since October 2013 and said nearly 3,000 victims have been swindled out of $14 million so far.
By altering their caller ID number to make it look like they're calling from an IRS office, these scammers often threaten vulnerable people like the elderly and new immigrants with things like arrest, deportation or the loss of their driver's license if they don't pay immediately for money purportedly owed.
Often leaving messages that say it's "urgent" you call them back, the scammers use common names and sometimes say they are from the IRS Criminal Division. They may even claim to know the last four digits of your Social Security number and send follow-up emails that appear to be from the IRS, TIGTA said.
They often demand that payments be made by prepaid debit card.
Once they make their threats, the scammers have been known to call back and again disguise their caller ID so it appears they are calling from the police department or the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).
Or sometimes when they call, they may say you have a refund due and ask you to provide personal information so you can claim it.
The real IRS will usually contact you by regular mail first, if it needs to contact you at all. And the agency never demands immediate payment by phone or asks for credit card or debit numbers if they do call. It also never asks for personal or financial information by email, text or social media.
If you get what you suspect is a scam call, report it to TIGTA through its Web site or call 800-366-4484.
i got a call this morning on my answering machine saying i needed to call the number cuz i was being sued by the IRS and i needed to contact them as soon as possible. i didnt call the number back i looked it up on the computer and poof i find scam written all over this
Received a recorded message that the IRS had a lawsuit against me. When I called back, a man with a very strong accent answered. He could not understand me and asked me again and again to speak slowly. (When he asked, he was very rude.) He had my home phone number and previous address. Told me that I could pay the $2586 or meet them in court the next morning. When I asked to speak to his supervisor, he told me he was the supervisor! When I asked for his name, he refused to give it. I told him I hope the phone call was being recorded because he was acting so very unprofessional. I hung up and, still not realizing it was a scam, I called back 5 minutes later. Same guy answered but much more polite. Thinking it was a different clerk, I told him I had received a call but had not gotten much information from the person I had spoken to. I told him I wanted to report that person. Suddenly, the guy seemed polite, "I am so sorry he was rude. Am I being rude now? Do you know the name of the person?" As soon as he heard that I didn't have the name, he hung up. Can someone please put this specific phone number on the official IRS website to warn people like me who don't know how to search the web? (I called a younger friend who helped me out.)
Just received a call saying the exact same thing. Only when I called back, it kept ringing and ringing. I'm glad this isn't legit. When I missed the call it came up as "private number", but gave this number to call back.