I got a call today saying that they had been trying to reach me and if I, or my attn'y, did not return the call, I could expect Law Enforcement at my door anytime for a criminal offense and that I would be held for 72 hours. I called the number back. Call would not go through.
I got a call today saying that they had been trying to reach me and if I, or my attn'y, did not return the call, I could expect Law Enforcement at my door anytime for a criminal offense and that I would be held for 72 hours. I called the number back. Call would not go through.
Called twice. Call begins "Drop what you are doing and write down this phone number. " Number is called off slowly one digit at a time. turns out to be same number. Sounds like a robo-call. Caller throws out a lot of titles of supposed laws. CPL this, Code that. After the first call, I didn't do anything. They called again this morning, same robo-call. I checked online and learned number could be froom Findaly, OH, as shown on my caller ID. I called the number back. Phone is answered by female with Spanish accent, "Department of Legal Affairs, US Treasury." She proceeds to try to get me to confirm my name and address, asks if I have a criminal attorney as I am about to be charged for IRS fraud. I said the phone call was a strange way to go about such business as I never received a letter from the IRS. She then said, "OK you'll get a registered" and hung up immediately. Our newspaper had an article about a con related to the IRS and suppose this call was the lead - in to such a con. According to the article, if you stay with the call, you'll be told you can avoid arrest by buying a certain number of cards at a certain store for a certain amount of money. Then they call back, you give them the numbers on the cards, and the con man uses the numbers to claim the money. I believe these con artists are targeting the elderly (they can buy such mailing lists) or persons in certain zip codes who supposedly are more susceptible to such cons.
"Department of Legal Affairs, US Treasury." tells me I will be arrested shortly, home and vehicles will be seized, bank accounts will be frozen. I asked if this was a joke. he said, thanks for wasting his time, I will be arrested shortly, and can laugh on the way to jail.