202-239-6920
Country: USA
202 area code:
District Of Columbia (Washington)
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- RexIRSConfirmed fraud attempt. This is a Pakistan or India based IRS scam. Do not fall for it. The IRS does not initiate any legal action via phone.
Read http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/press/press_tigta-2014-03.htm
As general background information, here are a few things you can do:
1) Report it to TIGTA under http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/contact_report_scam.shtml especially if you have become a victim (lost money, gave personal information etc.). You can also file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission at ftc.gov/complaint (include “IRS Telephone Scam" in your complaint). This way you can also help the government establish specific fraud patterns.
2) Help kill their phone lines. The scammers use Voice over IP lines (e.g. magicJack (Ymax corporation)) to make it seem as if they are calling from the US. This is always against these companys' terms of service and can lead to immediate termination of their contract and blocking of their IP addresses for future attempts to register. Do a reverse look up of their telephone number (e.g. www.whitepages.com) to identify the Voice over IP provider and report it to the company and or law enforcement (local police and/or state attorney general)
3) If you are really annoyed: call or write to your representative in Congress. As these scams happen all over the country maybe this will trigger a reaction and provide US law enforcement agencies with the political backing and the resources they need to work in India and Pakistan together with local authorities (it can happen, read: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/ex-call-cen ... mmission-320427). A US task force has already been set up in Jamaica to nab scammers there (see http://www.ice.gov/doclib/news/library/reports/cornerstone/cornerstone7-1.pdf). You can use the following template for your letter (more powerful!) or email:
https://800notes.com/forum/ta-a9526ebadc65cf9 ... 558497927242748 - CSLegal documents to be served
- Lesliecalled left message claiming to be IRS strong accent. Threatening me that the Federal Government has a law suit pending against me. This number is not associated with the IRS. Scammers
- Caller: phony IRS
- macyStating the government has a law suit out for me.
- Mercie Lobo| 2 repliesThey called me and telling me i have a lawsuit from IRS. I paid my tax every year, how come they're sending this message can anyone help me ? On why these numbers still woriking if theyre not real IRS?
- Caller: cricket
- j| 1 replyThey need to stop asap. Fake fraud bullcrap
- Caller: (202) 239-6920
- RitaReceived a call left it go to my voice mail he threaten me me. With Court
- Caller: scam
- GJK| 1 replyThis person, with an Indian accent, has called me over 35 times in the last 3 months and each time he uses a different name. He has told me that he is the IRS, the police department, and numerous other people. He has gone so far as to call me the N-word and stated that the police would be at my door by the end of the day. I don't know what else to do. I want to change my number but I've had it for over 10 years.
- irritated female| 2 repliesthis number keeps calling and harrassing me i have no outstanding debt and dont know how they received my number ..I want them to stop i already tried blocking their number but somehow they keep getting through HELP
- margaretWhy are ya'll answering the phone in the first place if you do not recognize the number? Area code 202 is one of the major ones used for scams.
- Call type: Prank
- Margaret replies to Mercie LoboA scammer knows how to spoof a number. If you were to see their true number, it would probably be from somewhere over seas. I actually had one on my caller ID at home that was my own home number. If I had been at home that would have probably freaked my out. Nowadays that can make it be any number they want appear on the ID. I also had one dumb enough to use the sheriff office #. Needless to say I reported that one.
- RexReceived a voice message stating that they were going to Subpoena our company and have police show up at my door if I failed to return their phone call and take the message seriously.
I called them back for kicks. A man with an Indian accent answered and there were people speaking Punjabi in the background. He answered the phone, "Hi". I asked him who he was and he stated that they are the IRS Investigation Group. I told him he was full of it, that I didn't believe a word he said, and that I would be reporting him immediately. He hung up.
Total scam....- Caller: 2022396920
- CWG40 replies to jThey are scammers/extortionists-- hard-core located in India or Pakistan. They won't stop. Call blocker is your best bet.
- CWG40 replies to GJKInvest in a call blocker. Also, don't pick up on numbers you do not recognize.
- CWG40 replies to irritated female| 1 replyMight want to see if there is some other blocking application that might work. Of course, they will often change their numbers and that makes it harder to block them. This scam comes out of India or Pakistan.
Don't pick up on call numbers you do not recognize. It's important that you do not talk to these people. This sort of call is not random. They are predators who pick their targets. They have your financial and personal information. They pick on women, single mothers, the elderly and members of the immigrant community. They are looking for vulnerable people.
If you talk to them, they may sense some vulnerability and simply hammer you with more calls.
These people are hard core scammer/extortionists. Ignore them. Never talk to them.
Area code 202 is a scam magnet for Indians and Pakistanis. Block the whole area code. - jrc replies to Mercie LoboIt's a phone scam
- Jamie OrrKeep getting a message that I am being sued from the IRS and I need to contact immediately and clearly its a person from some other country. This is ridiculous that we have to get these stupid phone calls.
- Caller: DC, USA
- Mitzi replies to CWG40How do they get our financial, ssn, any pertinent information on people?
They've been harassing me for over 2 years!
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