I received two calls from this number on a Saturday morning. They left name of Julie Smith and claimed that IRS would take action against me if I did not return call. It was extreme time sensitive and I was not to ignore them.
We all know that no public servant/government employee would be stupid enough to leave such a threatening message.
Do not call them back. Don't talk to them and block their calls. These are hard core scammer/extortionists located in either India or Pakistan. You talk to them an d they will become abusive. They have your financial information and personal information. The pick on women, single mothers, the elderly and members of the Immigrant community.
They try to scare people they call with a lot of threatening legal mumbo-jumbo.
Some things to remember:
Total scam run out of India. First off, the IRS does not file lawsuits. If there is a need for court action, the IRS makes a request to the DOJ which makes the final decision whether or not to go to court-- usually to enforce a collection action of some kind or another. See: http://www.irs.gov/irm/part5/irm_05-017-004.html
But this only happens after a long period of administrative negotiations with the taxpayer. Before any court case would happen, the taxpayer would be well aware of it. IRS is never going to cold-call you and tell you that a case is being filed against you out of the clear blue sky.
IRS has absolutely no authority over local police. Local police and law enforcement are NEVER involved in tax disputes. If law enforcement presence is needed US marshal are available. Almost all tax disputes are civil matters.
Secondly, over 90 percent of all tax disputes are settled administratively during an appeals process.
This is just a scam where somebody cold-calls, pretends to be IRS and tries to scare you into paying money to somebody by Green dot money pak which is untraceable.
Ignore the call and do not return it. Block the number.
See: http://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/IRS-Reiterate ... -Telephone-Scam