I received a threatening call from Jennifer Smith from the "IRS." It said not to ignore the call and that I needed to return the call to her division with the provided number before legal allegation was taken against me. It was a creepy automated voice and ended with "goodbye and take care." Yeah, right!
When I called the man I spoke to was extremely rude. I told him I'd received a voicemail. He was curt and insulting, I don't remember what he said but it was unprofessional (apparently scammers don't understand how to properly impersonate people). He asked if I was Barbara. I told him no, he replied "Don't call this number again," and hung up. I'm glad something felt wrong. They don't know what they're doing.
I just got a call from the same number 415-251-9813. It was the message, a woman's automated recording from office Julie Smith. She stated the hotline for her division is and listed the phone number above. She said "don't ignore the message and do return a call before we take any legal action. Good bye and take care.." First of all, IRS doesn't list hotline numbers, so that was already strange and yet I did call back.
I have called back right away and Officer Mak picked up. At first he asked me to verify name and then he stated that the address he had on file for me in Menlo Park and when I said it's not my address he said then sorry wrong case and hung up on me. I called back and said: "I am sorry, but you hung up without re-verifying that everything is ok with my account and I said IRS usually is sending mail out and I think they are a fraud and I will call police and FBI to report him to which he repeated this time without verifying who I am.. While they are sending me a note via mail, I should expect someone to come to the door to arrest me! :) What a nut case and what are these people doing? I heard if you call these phone numbers, they get some money??? My mom got the same call a few weeks ago for my dad's business. She panicked but I calmed her down telling her IRS sends mail in, not calls like that and they said his name wrong as well. I just called FBI and was told that Perjury General Inspector at IRS is seeking information on these calls but the number given to me was wrong so I wrote the report on the FBI web site and they can send this information to IRS. My advise to all who get this kind or other calls from a party claiming the are government agency, bank etc.. Hang up and call them back if you doubt their legitimacy. Don't give out any personal information via the phone!!!
Got a call from 415-251-9813 today claiming to be from the IRS...total SCAM! So grateful for this website because we are able to compare notes and determine what is legit and what is not.
got the same call from 415-251-9813 too just now. I was panicked for a minute and until I realized it was probably a scam because the end of call sounded like a robo-call. How the hell did these people got my cell number? so annoying!