I've received several voicemails claiming I owe state taxes between 2005 through 2012 and can resolve immediately or wait until Monday when the sherifff's department comes to arrest me.
When asking for their address, they provided me with the federal irs building in San Francisco 450golden gate bridge, San Fran, CA 94102.
A male with Indian accent identified himself as John Davis from IRS called on Friday morning and told me that there was a tax discrepancy on my income tax return and if it is not solved and paid by Monday I will go to jail. He gave me a case# and name of (Michal Carter) as an IRS supervisor for my case. After calling my accountant & attorney, I found that all above was a fraud. So please be carful incase you got same call.
I recived a call yesterday from this mumber from a man with such a heavy middle eastern accent I could not understand him. He said he was with the IRS and he needed my Attorneys information. When I asked him what this was about he stated that I had an open investigation for tax fraud against me and he needed to put an attorneys name on file as I was in danger of being arrensted. He asked if I wanted the case number, I told him that he needed to call me back as I was on the freeway driving in the middle of no where and could not take down the information. He said he would cll me back, which he didnt. I was obvioulsy concerned so I called that number back this morning. I spoke with a female with the same accent but easier to understand. She asked for my contact info which I gave her (Do not do this) she said that I had a open investigation under my wifes name about tax fraud and I owed $6000 as I had not paid the proper amount of taxes. When asked what exactly this was about she proceeded to tell me that she would read the charges and sked me not to interupt her as she read this. She went on to tell me that a sherrif would be at my house on monday to arrest my wife and she needed a lawyer contact phone number, she also stated that she would loose her pass port and drivers license for 10 years, all assets would be confiscated payroll checks would be garnished, and she would be on some sort of federal government black list. I kept asking her what tis was about I asked for a supervisor, she mentioned aslo that they made 2 attempts to send infor via registered mail well of course that did not happen either. I was very angry as you can imagine that I could not get information or even a tax year this case was suppose to be about. I asked again for explination and she simply stated (she was Frustrated) your will just have to see on Monday and hung up on me. When I tried to call back, as my blood pressure was beyond elivated, I convienently could not get through. It was like my number had been blocked, eith a busy signal or one ring than a beep and a dail tone was all I got as I made several attempts. As you can imagine I was freaked out and spent over 4 hours trying to get to the bottom of this. Of course it takes and act of god to speak with someone from the IRS and to date still have not made contact. I did however get the proper protocol the Government uses to get in touch with people who have issues. They will obviously send it registered mail, if that fails they will send info via an IRS agent or a Secret Service agent to deiliver the paper work. They do not (again do not) contact you via the telephone or email. Do not respond to email from the IRS, do not even open it. Please be aware, as I have spent hours researching today this is a attempt at fraud, there are thousands of complaints registered about this phone number and many other numbers as well. Aslo the IRS will never ask you for your SS number, or other contact information as they already have it, or will mail you one of thier famous forms requesting any information they may need....it will all be done by mail. Please Be aware, be careful and do not give personal information including SS numbers, Cell numbers, address or anything else claiming to be an IRS agent on the phone saking for this information.
I got the same phone call from (415) 251-6162 @ 12:25 pm EDT. Bad connection, Indian accent and they let me know not to ignore the call and to call back. I don't think I'll be calling back