I too got this call demanding money, threatening arrest. I did an Internet search and found out it was a scam. To have fun I keep calling back the number and leaving message after message after message. Filling up there message box. Yes I have unlimited calling. Just want to get some recourse.
The computerized voice left an message saying they called in regards to a legal matter and that the case would be sent to the local county court house.
I got the same message but they said it was an IRS issue, I called them back and he said he was with the Internal Revenue Service office of Jack. I gave him my name (dumb mistake) and he hung up on me. I called him back and told him I did not appreciate getting hung up on and he said hold on one second and did it again.
This cannot be legit. I am in the process now of calling the actual IRS in order to get the scoop and report this number.
There is a fairly common IRS or "tax scam" being practiced by scammers on both Canadian and USA residents.
USA tax payers should read this:
http://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/IRS-Reiterate ... -Telephone-Scam
Short answer:
The IRS never initiates a contact via phone.
They always send a snailmail first.
Educational post:
This scam is also described as scam #11, here:
http://phonehelp.2truth.com/facts_rev.html
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Pay no attention. This is a scam to try to harass people into giving up financial and other sensitive information. I received the same call this morning, and have received similar calls from variants of the same number. They have a phone list of numbers that they circulate among themselves, and they try different deception tactics, sometimes pretending to be from the IRS and other times saying that they are law enforcement trying to file a law suit. When I initially began receiving these calls, there was a live person with a very heavy East Indian/ Pakistani accent, leaving a message. Since then, they wized up a bit and started using a completely automated system. I have read on numerous forums that there have been people who have given these criminals a great deal of information, with some even giving them credit card numbers to head off their bogus lawsuits. It is astonishing that more is not being done about this given our current global conflicts. It seems to me that these funds could easily be used to fund terror groups or any other criminal enterprise. Each time I get these calls, I register them with the IRS, but they just call back using different numbers and a slightly different scare tactic.
A male voice that sounded computerized voice left message stating that they called in regards to a legal matter and that the case would be sent to the local county court house for us to call them back. No names were given and when I called back it the message went to voice mail.