Today I got a call from this number too. Same description as everyone else's here. A guy with Indian accent left a voice message claiming there is security issue with immigration bureau threatening legal action if we don't reply his call.
Got the call here. Accent, hard to understand, claimed to be "James Anderson" (sorry, there aren't too many James Andersons with such a thick non-US accent). Funny phrasing "The minute you listen to this message, you should call me back"... Hah! Also interesting the names they use are all very common names - James Anderson, Brian Smith, Anna Jones, David Parker, James Brown... How many real IRS staffs all have names made up of the most common American names!??
calls 2-3 times a day, 3-5 times a week. No messages when I don't answer. When I do answer I just walk away, they hang up. Today they left a message. Funny. I called "Sammy" back and played along cause last year I had to pay to State and Fed for a previous yr., he said have my accountant call back.....oh my I said, Im in trouble...CLICK....so I called back, TEN TIMES!!! Finally Got "Derek".... told him I owed and what could I do? He said rererence number please...I said you should know it cause you've been calling me for weeks and your NOT the IRS but I called my Attorney who said they were gonna sue you [***] if you didn't quit calling me...CLICK. So I called again, and again, and they kept hanging up on me. Finally got "Sammy", and I screamed at him, I got ALL day to call you, just like you got ALL day to make bogus calls to people you POS, he laughed hahaha....and then CLICK again.....I think I made my point AND had some fun. Im gonna post this comment everywhere!
•If you owe federal taxes, or think you might owe taxes, hang up and call the IRS at 800-829-1040. IRS workers can help you with your payment questions.
•If you don’t owe taxes, call and 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.