Received the call several times today from same number. My fake irs guys name was Daniel smith. He said the police were coming to arrest me in the next half hour if I didn't pay. I finally said okay I will pay whatever amount they wanted me to just so I didn't get arrested. I asked him if I could wire the amount to him or give him all my personal info. He started getting snappy with me and told me not to get smart and just pay up and I told him I knew This had to be a scam and he told me to f*** off you mother f***^^ and hung up on me. I think I mad them mad
Received the call several times today from same number. My fake irs guys name was Daniel smith. He said the police were coming to arrest me in the next half hour if I didn't pay. I finally said okay I will pay whatever amount they wanted me to just so I didn't get arrested. I asked him if I could wire the amount to him or give him all my personal info. He started getting snappy with me and told me not to get smart and just pay up and I told him I knew This had to be a scam and he told me to f*** off you mother f***^^ and hung up on me. I think I mad them mad
"she can't tell any one she is paying off the irs"
They say this because they know other people will advise her is is a scam.
Don't worry. The scammers make these threats to a lot of people. Your mother's phone number is just one of millions these scammers call.
Because of these bullies (and criminals) tell your mother to never answer the phone, let all calls go to voice mail or an answering machine, and then listen to the voice mail or answering machine to see if it is someone she knows. She can then call that person back.
The scammers will call and call and all you can do is ignore them.
These are criminal extortionists operating in overseas boiler rooms using VOIP to alter their identities and locations and out of the reach of US law enforcement.
If someone calls saying he's an IRS agent and demands that you send money immediately, hang up.
It's a phone scam.In fact, it tops the IRS "Dirty Dozen" list of tax scams this year, and it's been surging in recent months, the agency said Thursday.
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), which oversees the IRS, has received reports of 290,000 scam calls since October 2013 and said nearly 3,000 victims have been swindled out of $14 million so far.
By altering their caller ID number to make it look like they're calling from an IRS office, these scammers often threaten vulnerable people like the elderly and new immigrants with things like arrest, deportation or the loss of their driver's license if they don't pay immediately for money purportedly owed.
Often leaving messages that say it's "urgent" you call them back, the scammers use common names and sometimes say they are from the IRS Criminal Division. They may even claim to know the last four digits of your Social Security number and send follow-up emails that appear to be from the IRS, TIGTA said.
They often demand that payments be made by prepaid debit card.
Once they make their threats, the scammers have been known to call back and again disguise their caller ID so it appears they are calling from the police department or the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).
Or sometimes when they call, they may say you have a refund due and ask you to provide personal information so you can claim it.
The real IRS will usually contact you by regular mail first, if it needs to contact you at all. And the agency never demands immediate payment by phone or asks for credit card or debit numbers if they do call. It also never asks for personal or financial information by email, text or social media.
If you get what you suspect is a scam call, report it to TIGTA through its Web site or call 800-366-4484.
I've been getting calls from this number every day, and just blocked it myself. I have an apartment, live alone, and work alone, so my tax's are very simple. None of it made sense, or even seemed professional. And this started around the same time that I started to get a lot of junk calls.