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 maybe getting a call blocking device or phone.. You can google them and many are around $50.00 or so.
IRS scam that I just reported to FTC.gov - pre-recorded Julie Smith basically threatened if we didn't return call to her IRS office phone # 415-251-8890.
The caller ID showed Private Name & Private Number, of course.
Do Not Call Registry is no different than anything else - the crooks don't pay attention to any rules or laws.
I hate to say this is a 'prank call' - stealing someone's private information is not a prank - it's a scam & attempted theft.
I got two calls early in the morning and they left a message claiming to be the IRS and to call back immediately. When I called back I was told by "Officer John Smith" that this was, indeed, the IRS, as in the government's Internal Revenue Service, and asked if I had a case number, which they did not leave in the message. So he then asked for my cell phone number. I told him the information should be in his system under the number I was calling from and that I did not need to give him my phone number. After a few seconds he hung up on me. I called back and had a long conversation with him (at this poing I was testing to see how far he would go) where he claimed I owed $7,992.82 in taxes and that an officer was going to come to my door and arrest me in 2 hours and I was going to jail. I was cracking up. This was a fellow with a heavy Indian accent. I offered to pay right away and if he could take my payment over the phone, to which he gave me another number, 415-251-9049, and said to talk to Kenneth Webster and maybe he could help me avoid getting arrested (which he said the officer was on his way before).
This is a lame scam and I really hope people don't fall for it.
Same as you. His name was Mark Brown. Once I discovered it was a scam, I really want to call them back and ask why they didn't come arrest me, but my husband said don't waste my time.