Oct 9, 2014:
After not answering a call from Tennessee, also reported on this site..901-214-2999, I immediately got a call from this Texas number. The caller left a message this time identifying herself as Rita 'Smith''' from the IRS. She did not say what the reason for the call was but that I was to call her back at a later time as she was about to be away from the office. I gooled the number and it was not an office number but a cell number.
There is a fairly common IRS or "tax scam" being practiced by scammers on both Canadian and USA residents.
USA tax payers should read this:
http://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/IRS-Reiterate ... -Telephone-Scam
Short answer:
The IRS never initiates a contact via phone.
They always send a snailmail first.
Educational post:
This scam is also described as scam #11, here:
http://phonehelp.2truth.com/facts_rev.html
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