These scamming criminals called my mother's home phone 2 times about 10-15 minutes apart. 1st call told her they were from the IRS and that she hadn't paid any of her taxes and were going to take her to court. 2nd call
said they were suing her for tax evasion and that she could be arrested and go to prison. Thank God my mother is smart enough to know when she's being scammed and hung up. So how do they get through if my mother is on the Do Not Call List? With American technology being so sophisticated and top notch above all other countries why haven't the Federal Trade Commission or other Federal agencies caught up to them?
someone told me that the IRS had a warrant for my arrest and that a freeze would be put on my bank account and my credit cards.They told me that they had found where I was lying on my taxes and was looking at 15 year in prison. I knew it was a scam and told them if I could find out who they were that they would get more than the 15 year they were threatening me with. It must have offended them because they hung up on me. Imagine that, they did not want to talk anymore.
Report the Calls to the real IRS here:
•report the incident to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration at 800-366-4484.
•You can also file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission at FTC.gov. Add "IRS Telephone Scam" to the comments in your complaint.
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Do consider getting a call blocking device or phone.. You can google them and many are around $40.00 or so.If its a cell phone, some already have call blocking, if not, there are free apps on the web that will work for some. You can google this. If you have a smart phone, there is a free app called call control. Iphones appear to have apps also. Another one is called Mr. Number.