NEVER, EVER believe ANYTHING on these calls...especially automated ones. Do not give out any personal info, bank info, credit card info etc. Tell your children, your parents especially elderly parents and any seniors you may know to do the same! Don't be a victim!
I thought it was real , he read that I had fraud taxes and I flipped out and asked for paperwork mailed to me and he said nothing will be mailed , so you need to get a lawyer now to bail you out of jail, I knew right then it was a telemarketer , he hung up on me and I called back and he acted like he couldn't hear me! Don't trust anyone on the phone!
It was not a telemarketer. It was a lying, scumbag THIEF who was trying to extort money from you. The IRS mails letters if there is a problem. It is also illegal to threaten arrest (among other things) which does not happen in real civil cases..
Call was a computer generated voice that said they were the IRS and that I needed to call back before charges were filed against me. When I called back and asked why they were calling me the guy hung up.
I received a call also saying I had committed tax fraud. told that two registered letters were sent to me
and no one would sign for them. Said I would be arrested today if I did not pay at least 500$ of the
6,854.31 owed. BUT I had to go to 7-11 or rite aide and get a payment voucher. The payment voucher was to be a Green Dot money card. Wow almost had me convinced. ONLY because we were away the month she said the letters were mailed. I could not find a number for the IRS that connected you to a person. NICE, IRS