202-241-2584

Received the following email along with three phone calls stating that if I didn't call I would be arrested. Clearly a foreign speaking person sounded like they were from India. Went by the name Michael Matthews. I'm a stay at home mom with not only a clean drivers record but a clean background. They even attacked a fake picture of a supposed arrest warrant . Supposedly coming from the government . Lol. Do u know how common my maiden name is.  The email phone calls both were addressed to my maiden name . I have been married for fifteen yrs. These people seriously need to do their homework.

Katzlawfurm@outlook.com
Case No.ADR92681

Their is an Arrest warrant issued on your name

So Give us a call as soon as possible

Before the courtcase is file in order to get a Resolution before

you get in any trouble at your home or job.

(202) 241 2584

United States Attorney General

Angela,  I just got the same email, actually 2 emails from two different law firm names saying the exact same thing. The case number they sent me is the same one that you have too... LMFAO... Clearly this is a scam...I emailed them back n told them I reported them to the FBI n thanks for trying LOL... Stupid scammers!!!!

Email is not a valid means "serving" or arresting anyone.  Pay them no mind - they're foreign extortionist scammers who have no idea how the legal system works here!

This is an India or Pakistan based scam
Read http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/press/press_tigta-2014-03.htm
The IRS does not initiate any legal action via phone. The scammers use voice over IP lines (e.g. magicjack (Ymax corporation). This is always against these companys' terms of use and can lead to termination of their contract. However only law enforcement can initiate the contact if you yourself are not a customer. Therefore, report it also to your local law enforcement agency. Ultimately this is a case for the FBI legal attache in Islamabad or New Delhi. 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 the NSA can finally be a force for good).

You can use the following template for your letter or email:

Senators
Use the district office address of your senator as displayed on http://www.senate.gov/ 
Your letter should be addressed as follows:
The Honorable (full name)
United States Senate
Mailing Address of District Office
City, State, Zip Code

Representatives (House)
Use the district office address of your district representative as displayed on
http://www.house.gov/
Your letter should be addressed as follows:
The Honorable (full name)
United States House of Representatives
Mailing Address of District Office
City, State, Zip Code

Dear Senator/Representative XXX

As your constituent, I am writing to urge you to demand decisive action from the FBI, the IRS and other federal agencies against organized crime directed against American citizens from abroad.

As widely reported by local and national media all across the United States and warned about by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (see http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/press/press_tigta-2014-03.htm) a tidal wave of fraud using Internet phones has hit the United States. Millions of dollars already have been stolen by criminals impersonating federal officers while hiding in countries like India and Pakistan, where most of the calls originate. There seems to be no end of it in sight.

I have personally been targeted by these scammers but it is the most vulnerable among us that I am concerned about primarily. The scheme is specifically singling out those that can least defend themselves against these crimes, in particular the elderly. I am also worried that given the origin of these gangsters, the money stolen from US citizens may be used for financing of terrorism or other activities directed against the national interests of the United States. But in spite of this clear and present danger to our country and its citizens I have seen no action worth mentioning by the FBI, the IRS or other federal agencies so far.

As a member of Congress overseeing the law enforcement agencies tasked with fighting fraud and ensuring national security, I implore you to make sure that they act on these threats and are given all the necessary resources to target these criminals in cooperation with foreign law enforcement.

Yours sincerely

Rec'd 2 of the same emails yesterday one from Patterson and one from Katz with the same information. I sent a copy to my Attorney Generals Office. Just for the record, the courts or lawyers do not use emails to contact you. They deliver a summons to your door or send you a certified letter.

>>> Just for the record, the courts or lawyers do not use emails to contact you. <<<

Just to be more completely accurate, a court *may* contact a *lawyer* by email if he or she has expressly or implicitly consented to allow such communication, e.g., where putting an email address on your bar registration constitutes consent to receive service via email, or where electronic filing of cases is allowed or mandatory.  But the initial complaint still has to be served properly on the defendant -- at least if the lawyer is not, himself or herself, the defendant.

Also, you may receive a "heads up" from either or both sides of a civil case before a subpoena for your testimony or to produce documents in your possession is served.  In these cases, you would not be a party to the case and you would be notified well in advance of any trial and the party issuing the subpoena may be required to include a check with a small fee made out to you for the subpoena to be valid.  

Check with an attorney in your state for real legal advice.  Depending upon free legal advice from anonymous people on the Internet is foolhardy.

This is hilarious, first they use the name of a "law furm" that is using a free E mail address.  Wow what kind of lawyer can't even spell firm?  "Their" should be there, "on your name"?, "Before the courtcase is file in order to get a Resolution before" they ran court case into one word, and misspelled filed, and why is resolution capitalized?, "you get in any trouble at your home or job. " what kind of trouble could you get into at home over this?

An E mail from a private law firm, but not signed and it says: "United States Attorney General ".  Somehow I don't think that Eric Holder is holding two jobs.  I would also hope that he would be able to compose a much better communication than this.  Another Google translation failure especially when it is used by low life illiterate criminals.

I got the same email, but never called or replied to it. I know it is a scam. I got a call last week from some middle eastern/Indian guy claiming he was from the Attorney Generals office in Sacramento California (916 469-7023) (916 469-6344) and that I was under investigation by the cyber diversion of the FBI for trying to obtain money from putting fraudulent information on  payday loan applications. There was a voice mail left on my phone to call right away concerning charges filed against me and my social security number had been flagged for fraudulent activity. When I head that it really scarred me, so I called back the number. The guy that answered had a heavy middle eastern/Indian accent and claimed he was from the Attorney Generals office and that an officer of the law was on the other line listening. He went into the charges and read me some legal statues that I had violated and I was going to be arrested today and asked me where an officer of the law could come to arrest me. He went on about how I could go to jail for 7 years and I would lose my job unless I made an arrangement. He also said not to yell or get upset, then he put me on hold as he went to talk to the officer on line. I hung up after being on hold. Then a few minutes later some lady calls me saying she is  from the local police department and where can she meet me to arrest me. She said she was listening on the phone call with the guy from the Attorney Generals office. If I wanted to avoid being arrested I could work out something. I told her that I did not talk to the AG about any arrangement and she got mad and she was listening on the phone call and asked why did I hang up. She said you have 2 minutes to call the guy from the AG office and make arrangements or she was going to come and arrest me. I didn't call back as I was so unnerved by the whole experience. I thought about it and came to my senses. I remembered seeing the same kind of scam mentioned on local news but having to do with the IRS and back taxes.  I called back the number the officer used to call me and I got a recording that it was the non emergency number of the local police department and to leave a message. I wondered how did the scammer make it sound like they were calling from the police department. Also how did they have all the information about me like my social, work info, and home address. It then dawned on me that I had filled out an application weeks ago for a short term loan.  I was pretty sure this was some scam to shake me down for money, but there some doubt so I googled the number. Now I know for sure it was a scam to try and shake me down for money.

Its called call spoofing!  
phone spoofing explanation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoofing_attack
http://www.fcc.gov/guides/caller-id-and-spoofing

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.

Do consider maybe getting a call blocking device or phone.. You can google them and many are around $60.00 or so.

I received two emails from the same thing one was threatened me with charges of arrest. The second one was another threat with an arrest warrant . I don't understand I'm a good girl I have no record at all.

Nothing you are saying will do any good. FBI says nothing they can do. Attorney General refers you to someone else. Police tell you to ignore it. Really it is a scam and the most they can do is irritate you or embarrass you at your place of work, which happened to me. They are out of the country, for this reason FBI said they are limited with what they can do, also said if they pursued fraud calls, it is all they would be doing. You are wasting your time trying to take recourse, you can not do it. Just ignore them, don't talk to them and if they call your work, tell them to hang up too. The FBI agent that I talked with said when they did call them, they (the Indians) would laugh at them and call them back to harass them. They know there is nothing you can do except maybe change your phone number.

Care to disagree
There are a few things you can do:
1) Report it to TIGTA under http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/contact_report_scam.shtml
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 use and can lead to termination of their contract. However, only law enforcement can initiate the contact if you yourself are not a customer. Therefore, also report it to your local law enforcement agency.
3) Ultimately this is a case for the FBI legal attache in Islamabad or New Delhi. So 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 the political backing and the resources they need to work in India and Pakistan together with local authorities. Such a 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). So if you want a SWAT team kicking in doors of call centers on the subcontinent (and who doesn't) take a little time to write and voice your anger. You can use the following template for your letter or email:

Senators
Use the district office address of your senator as displayed on http://www.senate.gov/ 
Your letter should be addressed as follows:
The Honorable (full name)
United States Senate
Mailing Address of District Office
City, State, Zip Code

Representatives (House)
Use the district office address of your district representative as displayed on
http://www.house.gov/
Your letter should be addressed as follows:
The Honorable (full name)
United States House of Representatives
Mailing Address of District Office
City, State, Zip Code

Dear Senator/Representative XXX

As your constituent, I am writing to urge you to demand decisive action from the FBI, the IRS and other federal agencies against organized crime directed against American citizens from abroad.

As widely reported by local and national media all across the United States and warned about by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (see http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/press/press_tigta-2014-03.htm) a tidal wave of fraud using Internet phones has hit the United States. Millions of dollars already have been stolen by criminals impersonating federal officers while hiding in countries like India and Pakistan, where most of the calls originate. There seems to be no end of it in sight.

I have personally been targeted by these scammers but it is the most vulnerable among us that I am concerned about primarily. The scheme is specifically singling out those that can least defend themselves against these crimes, in particular the elderly. I am also worried that given the origin of these gangsters, the money stolen from US citizens may be used for financing of terrorism or other activities directed against the national interests of the United States. But in spite of this clear and present danger to our country and its citizens I have seen no action worth mentioning by the FBI, the IRS or other federal agencies so far.

As a member of Congress overseeing the law enforcement agencies tasked with fighting fraud and ensuring national security, I implore you to make sure that they act on these threats and are given all the necessary resources to target these criminals in cooperation with foreign law enforcement.

Yours sincerely

I have been getting these calls as well, but they are targeting my daughter who hasn't lived at home at home for 15 years! They claim she owes $12,000 to the IRS and they called themselves the federal crime bureau. They continue to call and I have just stopped answering.

I received a call 8/4/2014 saying they were Ryan Crime and Enforcement and they were calling about a lawsuit regarding my social security number and to call back immediately.  I am a very law abiding citizens and have nothing going on in my life re lawsuits or anything else.  Obviously did not call back, but just got another v/m today from a different number, automated call, re a lawsuit being filed as well.  Will research that number, read the comments and report it as well.  Super scary and annoying that hackers get on to you.