Somebody named Daniel, Called 2 times this morning around 7 am in my home phone. First time my wife didn't picked the phone but second time she picked. The guy ( refer himself as Daniel) telling my wife he is calling from IRS and asked me to call back within 6 PM today about TAX issue. I checked the no in the internet and discussed with my friend about this. I found out it is a scam and decided not to call back.
Man claims to be from IRS regarding tax issue that could lead to "legal action.". Says that you must call 415 506 2511 and talk to a "Kevin Petersen.".
Just as area code 876 (Jamaica) has become the "Publishers Clearing House scam" capital of the world, area code 415 is quickly becoming the "IRS scam" capital of the world.
I would ignore any calls coming from this number. It's a magicJack number. Unless, of course, you actually believe that IRS agents would use magicJacks to call you.
>>> How can you find out if a number is a Magic Jack number? <<<
Two ways. One is a bit more complicated than the other.
(1) The easy way. Go to http://www.phonevalidator.com and you will see two entry boxes for you to fill in. Fill in the phone number in the first, bigger box and the "validation code" that appears in the picture in the box below that. (The verification code is just there to make sure that bots don't overwhelm their system.) Then click on the "Search" button under the verification box.
When you do that, you will get a results page next. If it is a magicJack number, the phone company shown on the results page will say, "YMAX CORP -- POSSIBLE MAGICJACK VOIP".
(YMAX is the company that owns magicJack. See http://www.ymaxcorp.com )
(2) The more complicated way. Go to http://www.localcallingguide.com . Under the heading "Search," find "Search Area Code/Prefix/OCN" and click on the term "Area Code/Prefix/OCN". That will bring up a form in which to enter parts of the phone number.
When the form is displayed on the screen, just enter the area code in the entry field named "NPA" and the next three digits of the phone number (the exchange, or rate center) into the entry field named "NXX". You can leave the rest of the form blank. ( If you want, you can enter the next digit of the phone number -- the one immediately following the exchange -- in the field named "Block". This usually gives you the answer directly. But I have found that doing so does not always work if all ten of the possible blocks in the rate center are assigned to the same carrier.)
After you have entered NPA and NXX (and optionally, Block), click on the "Submit" button. That will bring up a table of providers. Search down the "Block" column until you find the digit that matches the first digit of the phone number following the exchange. If that row says "YMAX COMMUNICATIONS CORP." under the column headed "OCN", it is a magicJack number.
Precautionary and explanatory notes:
You may want or need to read more about http://www.localcallingguide.com because there are a few quirks involved in interpreting and even sometimes just finding the results, and you can learn a lot more about the phone system by playing around there.
Also, note that http://www.phonevalidator.com sometimes says that a particular number is a "possible" Skype, Google Voice number, etc. I don't think you can rely on those statements, because the actual company it cites in such cases often also provides phone numbers to other phone companies, too, including those that provide business lines, presumably including legitimate businesses.
In addition, numbers can be ported both into and out of a company. For example, you can import a Sprint mobile phone number to Google Voice and vice versa. In these cases, your search results may be inaccurate. But, to the best I can determine, porting of numbers into or out of a magicJack just doesn't make much sense for a business. It's not that porting a number in either direction can't be done, but rather that magicJack has either made it expensive or impractical to reliably do it, or it may be expensive or impractical for a business to do it for other reasons. So I think that you can put very high confidence in assuming that virtually all phone numbers in YMAX blocks are, in fact, magicJack numbers.
Another indication that may help confirm a magicJack number is that there are a relatively small number of complaints about individual numbers -- indicative of a small-time scammer who is doing this on his own -- and that the reports cover a relatively short period of time, i.e., a year or less. That's because they would have to renew their subscription to magicJack and presumably provide credit card information. Because of the way magicJacks are marketed, it's probably cheaper and easier just to buy a new one from a store and sign up for a different number. It's also harder to trace you down if you do that.
Also, magicJacks use a proprietary protocol. You need one of their devices to decode the Internet signals to telephone signals that your phone can understand. That makes it hard to connect a PBX to a magicJack line, which line itself probably is severely limited in the number of simultaneous calls that can be active. Thus, the volume of calls that could be made is probably about the same as an individual prankster could make, and the total number of complaints would reflect that level of calling, not the level that might be expected from a foreign boiler room operation.