It's a scam call, they say they're from the Treasury Department and threaten legal action if you don't return the call. Very American sounding name coupled with a foreign accent.
It's a scam call, they say they're from the Treasury Department and threaten legal action if you don't return the call. Very American sounding name coupled with a foreign accent.
This number is being used in an attempt to defraud the receiver of the call. They are claiming they want to talk to you about taxes and threaten to indite you if you don't call back. There is NO CRIME in not returning a call EVEN TO THE IRS. To charge you they would need to have served a subpoena and you failed to appear in court. They give the name Kevin Mason but have a pronounce foreign accent East Indian, Arab, or Hindu. They claim that failure to return the call is a crime. It's a lie. I intend to turn this over to my State AGO and let them deal with them. They are misrepresenting themselves as Federal employees and THAT IS a crime.
Scammers call an individual asserting that the individual has been awarded a grant or a similar sum of money and request personal information or a sum of money to “release” the funds. The Treasury does not have such a program.
Likewise, e-mails promising a sum of money and purporting to be from the Treasury Secretary or his staff are false.
We urge recipients of such calls or e-mails to be extremely wary of any scheme requiring an advance payment for a later promise of funds—these are hallmarks of scams.
A similar scam is a caller falsely representing that he is from the Internal Revenue Service or impersonating an investigator from this Office and demanding payment or information. These callers have been described as threatening or abusive, and tell victims they need to make immediate payment to forestall arrest.
THESE ARE FRAUDS. PLEASE EXERCISE CAUTION IN YOUR DEALINGS WITH ANYONE PURPORTING TO BE FROM A GOVERNMENT AGENCY AND DEMANDING MONEY OR INFORMATION.
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Got call about irs and need to call back . If no call back the irs will file legal charges . As someone who has been audited : the first step is that you receive an official audit notice , in mail, from a verifiable irs national audit center. Step 2 is you have a time period to appeal , or send in the requested check made payable to the United States treasury. If you appeal you must send in your support documentation and await a direct mailed respond by the irs.