I just received a phone call just like the one described above by michael dial. Only I did not call them back, and I do not intend to call them back unless requested by the police. Yesterday (Friday, May 20, 2016) I received my first call from IRS scammers asking me to call 206 539 5299 and searched (and found) it on a web site like this one. I received no less than 6 calls in a 9-hour period asking me to call that 206 area code number from a number that was "blocked". Reporting to the FTC is useless. Blocking is useless because they can call from dozens of different numbers. The telephone companies already have the technology to detect massive numbers of fraud calls from any single number and then to automatically block such calls from subscribers who request such a service. Some phone companies already offer such a service. A group associated with the magazine Consumer Reports has a petition demanding that the US Congress require all phone companies to offer this service. I believe that web sites such as this one (800notes.com) should be encouraged and supported to help spread useful and timely information to ordinary citizens to help us all deal with these scams.
Helpless characters if nobody's taking their calls in any way. Scammers need a victim to do anything. Don't participate and eventually lose the junk callers.
i received a message saying that they represented the u.s. treasury , and i needed to call them about a possible lawsuit against myself , that i was accused of tax fraud. when i returned the call i asked the person on the phone who he was and repeated , who are you several times. he then began to call me a "[***]" etc. i hung up the phone and called them back and it was answered and i heard the same background noise , like a call center with a lot of people speaking , so i did not say anything and hung up the phone. i called my phone provider's customer care line and they told me to report this to the f.t.c. i am on the federal do not call list and many times i get calls similar to this. i can't block these calls or screen them. in fact i received a similar unwanted and unsolicited call this morning. please acknowledge this message. thank-you.
I just received a phone call just like the one described above by michael dial. Only I did not call them back, and I do not intend to call them back unless requested by the police. Yesterday (Friday, May 20, 2016) I received my first call from IRS scammers asking me to call 206 539 5299 and searched (and found) it on a web site like this one. I received no less than 6 calls in a 9-hour period asking me to call that 206 area code number from a number that was "blocked". Reporting to the FTC is useless. Blocking is useless because they can call from dozens of different numbers. The telephone companies already have the technology to detect massive numbers of fraud calls from any single number and then to automatically block such calls from subscribers who request such a service. Some phone companies already offer such a service. A group associated with the magazine Consumer Reports has a petition demanding that the US Congress require all phone companies to offer this service. I believe that web sites such as this one (800notes.com) should be encouraged and supported to help spread useful and timely information to ordinary citizens to help us all deal with these scams.