I received an automated call from this number around 10:00 am saying their is a lawsuit pending by the IRS and to return the call immediately. I called the number (above) and got a Mr. William Black that stated his name and his IRS ID number. It all sounded very official and there was "a lot" of background noise like he was calling from a call center. He immediately asked if I was "full name" and ended up getting or I gave (not sure now, and this is scary) my SS#. He stated that I was audited for 2010 to 2013 and that there were problems with my returns. (Unfortunately, there was a problem with one of the returns for one of those years, so I did file and amended return, so I thought it might have had something to do with this). He stated that there is a lawsuit currently being filed by the IRS in the local court house and I was being charged with four counts: Fraud, Violation of Federal IRS Law #80***, Intent to deceive, and Willful Misrepresentation. This all sounded very official and then he stated that a representative was sent to my house on April 21 and May 25, 2015 and that I never responded, so thus the lawsuit. I stated that I've never received any notifications in the mail or that were left at my house, and that the first I heard of an IRS issue was five minutes before I called the number back. He asked if I would like to settle this in court or out of court by paying $7,864.00 in fees. I told him absolutely not until I review the records and what the audit showed. I asked him to send me the details of the audit and he said I would be getting the information in the next week. I immediately called my tax consultant and he said it sounded like a fraudulent call. I did a number look up and didn't come up with much. I then filed a fraud alert on the IRS web page to make sure. I then tried to call the number back several time now around 12:30 PM (today- same day), and the number keeps dropping off. OBVIOUSLY this was a fraudulent call, and a very deceptive one at that. Evidently this is common by the IRS webpage banner notification. Here is the IRS Fraud Reporting Page incase you also get this type of call: https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/
Do not call them back, instead look up the irs 800 number and call them. I don't think the irs has return numbers that are not toll free. See my post below!
i had the identical call from mr William black !!!!! and I almost fell for it , thankfully I didn't but I know that theres some poor unsuspecting people out there that will , its soooo wrong .
just had the call from Mr. William Black he gave me his badge # IRM90318,I'm sure it's made up just like the call. Mr. Black said ,told me to look at the number on my cell and call that number from another phone.I informed Mr. Black I was very familiar with that number,Mr. Black said that they have even been out to my house twice I laughed, told him that was a lie when he couldn't supply the dates, then I went on to tell Mr. Black that the IRS do not make calls, it states that on the IRS.gov web site.Mr. Black had an answer for everything,the IRS was going to garnish my wages,ect..laughed at him again.That my tax return for 2010-2013 was not paid of $4,864.00. I laughed at him again and that made him mad.He said that he was going to subpoena me and I'd have to pay interest and penalties (laughed again). I then went on to tell Mr. Black that I work for the IRS.......He hung up abruptly. Beware it's only Sept. and scammers are already working the tax angle!!!