202-241-8241

Message left on my VM threatened a lawsuit by IRS. Number is a scam.

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 but not by calling them back directly (the number may be spoofed and repeat calls by you may - under exceptional circumstances- amount to harassment). 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

Thanks. I did report it to the TIGTA and the FCC already.

They called and basically said that they where IRS and that there was a lawsuit filed against us. Left on answering machine

They have been calling me repeatedly. thanks for the post.

"Hi this message is intended for Julie Madison. Joe this is officer Adam Smith calling you from Internal Revenue Service tax and party department(?). The nature and purpose of this call is to inform you that we have received a legal lawsuit file against your name. It's regarding some test can be addressed about the issue and finished a lot of [...] if you want any further details information on your case. So need to call me back as soon as possible. So what he thought the number is 202-241-8241. I repeat it's 202-241-8241. Thank you."

Some Russian guy has been leaving messages on my answering machine threatening a lawsuit.  I erase the messages and keep thinking I'll report it to the donotcall site (I haven't) and then today the same guy calls but the message is that I've been pre-approved for a loan!  These guys are definitely the gang that can't shoot straight!

This man Alex clamping he was from the IRS and that my daughter was defrauding the IRS.  Telling me they were going to garnish her wages and possibly go to jail.  Which freaked me out.  He was tring to get information about my daughter but I could not understand him which I kept telling him and he hung  up.    Shaking for about hour found out it was a scam!!!!!!