Received two calls in one day from 607-735-0855 and 315-458-7682, caller ID's both showed them from "NEW YORK", and both a poor automated voice recording stating that this was my last chance to avoid arrest/persecution and demanded I call the "IRS" at 347-305-6110.
1) The IRS never contacts people via the phone and never threatens a person, especially using a generic voice recording and NOT stating your full name and giving a contact name.
2) Communications would be via a 1-800 (toll free) number, if there are IRS issues and that would be ONLY after a USPS mailed formal communication is sent and specific issues have already been initialized. Again a IRS agent name, your name and other relevant information will be included in documentation.
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A clue, if one chooses to play with them and check for legitimacy, when calling their "must call this number" 347-306-6110, always preceded dialing these with the "*67" to block your number. If your blocked number is NOT accepted, that is a clue that they are harvesting numbers. (Collecting numbers to use again as active victims or to sell to other scammers). If the call is rejected, there is a 99% these people are nothing but criminals.
Be careful out there people - this person sounded like he was from India and was calling pertaining to a problem with the windows program on my computer - how did he get my phone number? There is no problem with my computer and what made him think I had a PC and not a Mac.
I just got a call from this number, and I since I don't answer numbers I don't know, I let the machine get it. No message was left though. By the sounds of these posts, it was a good thing I did not answer! Does anybody know who the caller is, or has anyone actually talked to them???
Messages from Alex Ferguson or Sam Bishop -- all Indian/Middle Eastern accents and never leave a message about the nature of the call, just that because of the sensitivity of the matter they are not allowed and that if I don't return their call, there will be legal action and they will call my work and home. Someone please catch these creeps. They call 4 times back to back and from different numbers each time -- then on the last call they leave the message... It is roughly the same time every day too...