202-241-1286

This person calls as William Smith claims from IRS and has warrant for your arrest. If you hang up on him they know how to lock your phone and call as if they are calling from the police. They are IRS scammers and are very aggressive over the phone. They have middle eastern accents.

Don't give the crooks the time of day and let the phone ring without letting them leave you messages. IRS doesn't issue threats or forewarn of arrests, much less call you at random. Tell him to blow it out his backside if you talk to him. They can't do squat if you don't answer.

What a [***]  he called me and threatened me as well and said he was from the IRS as well. I'm making a police report on him. ..

This officer called me and left a message stating he was calling from IRS regarding bank accts and I had three hours to call him back if not I'd be arrested! He left his number but No area code, dummy! Good thing I did not pick up!

http://www.irs.gov/uac/Tax-Scams-Consumer-Alerts
http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/contact_report.shtml
https://800notes.com/forum/ta-8c2f64bf2b91fa5/irs-warns-of-telephone-scam

Report the Calls to the real IRS here:
•report the incident to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration at 800-366-4484.
•You can also file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission at FTC.gov. Add "IRS Telephone Scam" to the comments in your complaint.

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Do consider getting a call blocking device or phone.. You can google them and many are around $40.00 or so.If its a cell phone, some already have call blocking, if not, there are free apps on the web that will work for some. You can google this. If you have a smart phone, there is a free app called call control. Iphones appear to have apps also. Another one is called Mr. Number.

This person with an indian accent claming to be with the IRS called my friend on may 6th 2015 and left a very harsh message saying that my friend  owed a lot of money to the IRS and that they were going to arrest him and seize his passport and bank account etc,  etc,,  ,,,My friend took this very serious and even went to the bank before he contacted me and other folks that let him know it was a fraud.    (202) 242-1286

this 202 241 1286 called me today. i was in shock because he said i would spent 8 months in jail. I handed my hubby the phone end of story.

Happy to know its a scam. I knew it was once he said LA ballistic unit. ... hahaha

i have verizon and caller id said willlam meeks

This number called my husband saying we owed taxes and we're having the police come to our house....they had our address and arrest him! They were very aggressive!  Scammers...please be aware!

This [***] called me today 6/5/15 and left a message saying he was an officer from the IRS and that they were going to arrest me in three hours.  He scared my wife pretty bad, I was shocked as well.  I called my brother and he told me it was a scam going on, and not to worry. I called a friend who works for a police unit, and he confirmed that it was a scam as well.

Look at Tamianth's note above and use the links there. Any attempt to scam you by posing as IRS agents should to be reported.

I had 2 missed calls from 202-241-1286 and this person with a Indian/middle eastern accent called Thomas Jackson, left me a voice mail saying he was a criminal investigator with the IRS and was informing me that i hadn't paid my taxes and that local police was going to arrest me within 3 days and confiscate and freeze all my assets. I called the number back and the same person picked up the phone right away, which was a red flag because IRS has automated systems when you call and not just one agent. I told him my name and he asked me what number did we call you on, which was weird because if it was IRS they would ask you for you social security number to pull up you account not cell phone number. Then he was telling me the same thing he said in his voicemail, then he asked me if i wanted to know more detail about the taxes that i owe and i said yes because i have no idea what you talking about. Also the phone line was really bad, static and could barely hear. so he "transfered" me to William Smith and he told me i hadn't paid federal taxes from 2012-2014. I asked him how was i supposed to pay these taxes and he said you pay them when you do you taxes, which tells me these people have no idea how our tax procces works. Then while i was arguing with him about federal taxes, i googled the number and found this website. These are definitly SCAMMERS trying to scare you to pay the amount the amount the tell you. I should've played along and asked them how should i pay it but i didn't think about it.

My son received a call yesterday saying he owed the IRS and that if he didn't pay he will be going to jail for 8 months.  It freaked him out.  I told him that this sounds like a scam and that if he owed IRS they wouldn't have mailed him his tax refund.  I googled the number the dumb scammer called from.  I hate this is happening to honest people.  My son is a very intelligent, honest, and hard working respectful young man, but William will not win here.

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.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/22/pf/taxes/irs-tax-scams/

"202"   never  ending    area  code  fraud scam  calls.....
thanks....added  this  new    scammer  number  to  the  list...

addressed  and  noted  here  about a  billion  times  already  !

fake  phone  number....as  usual  !!!.....most  cases    scammers  using    google  voice  /  skype   /  majic  jack  etc...... (  voip )

NUMBERS   ARE   ALWAYS  FAKED /  SPOOFED...............THESE  ARE  FRAUD SCAMMERS  !!!!
( sorry  for the  long  list....but  people  have  to  know ! )

NOTE  :  similar  calls  now  coming  in  from the    " 209"  area  code  !!!   (  same  crap )

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ALSO IMPERSONATING   THE  US  GOV'T /  SEVERAL  GOV'T  OFFICES AND   PERSONS....BEWARE !!!

-  they  are   also  impersonating  DEA  officials  /  IRS  /  FAKE  LAW  FIRMS   etc....  with  threats  to  arrest you  unless  you  immediately  send money  via  wire   transfer /  western  union   to some   offshore  country  !!!!!   obvious  scam  !!!

some  are landlines...many  are  cell phones...some  are  spoofed  and  linked  to  offshore foreign call centers  /  countries !!!!
we've  traced  back  most  of  these  numbers  to  offshore  foreign    call centers mostly  in   INDIA /  THAILAND / AFRICA  /  JAMAICA  ETC....

here's a  few  other  numbers  posted  from  the   same  area  code  offering a  wide  variety  of  scams  /  fake  emails and  scams  after  posting  something  on   craigslist   (  old  scam  )  ...... collecting  for  non  existant  "  payday  loans "....free  money / scam  giveaways /  calling  on  behalf  of  a  humane  society..... $1,000's  in  free  gov't  money.........  etc  etc.....stories  change  out  all the  time......and  the  usual  nonsense!!!

**   mysteriously  call to  claim  they  have  several  thousand  of  dollars  to  send  you / give ....just  provide  your  bank  account and  credit  card   right  away   etc etc.........scam scam

several  of  these are  the  usual   long  ongoing  scams   such  as  :  you  have  won a  free  walmart /  bestbuy  gift  card....or  you  have  won a  free  ipad  etc......all  long  ongoing  scams............

some  OTHER    numbers scammers  are using  :    a  small list  of  hundreds  of  numbers  they  use  )  !

202-241-1286
202-684-6530
202-470-5952
202-684-6530
202-241-0698
202-864-1317
202-697-9105
202-666-7706
202-666-1824
202-666-1747
202-697-9308
202-111-0022
202-526-6721
202-551-1618
202-657-6583
202-666-1285
202-241-2375
202-239-1801
202-666-7822
202-239-8615
202-793-8675
202-697-9145
202-239-2226
202-506-8086
202-436-9939
202-241-8553
202-505-8086
202-241-8917
202-350-2716
202-666-1116
202-304-8101
202-506-9338
202-779-9626
202-241-8917
202-621-0770
202-657-6157
202-242-7889

that same number called me in a robotic foreign language was hella weird