202-629-0971

"It's from IRS. We need you to call us back on IRS hotline. 2026290971. I repeat it's 2026290971. The issue is very time sensitive. So before I take any legal action against your name. Call ARS as soon as possible."

Report the calls to the real IRS here:

IRS:   http://www.irs.gov/

http://www.irs.gov/uac/Report-Phishing
phishing@irs.gov
http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/

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

•If you owe federal taxes, or think you might owe taxes, hang up and call the IRS at 800-829-1040. IRS workers can help you with your payment questions.
•If you don’t owe taxes, call and 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.

What do they take me for?
"This call is from IRS Internal Revenue Service is the very second you receive this message from IRS. We need you to call us back on IRS hotline. 2026290971. I repeat it's 2026290971. The issue is very time sensitive. So before IRS take any legal action against your name. Call ARS as soon as possible."

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today warned consumers about a sophisticated phone scam targeting taxpayers, including recent immigrants, throughout the country.

Victims are told they owe money to the IRS and it must be paid promptly through a pre-loaded debit card or wire transfer. If the victim refuses to cooperate, they are then threatened with arrest, deportation or suspension of a business or driver’s license. In many cases, the caller becomes hostile and insulting.

“This scam has hit taxpayers in nearly every state in the country.  We want to educate taxpayers so they can help protect themselves.  Rest assured, we do not and will not ask for credit card numbers over the phone, nor request a pre-paid debit card or wire transfer,” says IRS Acting Commissioner Danny Werfel. “If someone unexpectedly calls claiming to be from the IRS and threatens police arrest, deportation or license revocation if you don’t pay immediately, that is a sign that it really isn’t the IRS calling.” Werfel noted that the first IRS contact with taxpayers on a tax issue is likely to occur via mail
Other characteristics of this scam include:
Scammers use fake names and IRS badge numbers. They generally use common names and surnames to identify themselves.
Scammers may be able to recite the last four digits of a victim’s Social Security Number.
Scammers spoof the IRS toll-free number on caller ID to make it appear that it’s the IRS calling.
Scammers sometimes send bogus IRS emails to some victims to support their bogus calls.
Victims hear background noise of other calls being conducted to mimic a call site.
After threatening victims with jail time or driver’s license revocation, scammers hang up and others soon call back pretending to be from the local police or DMV, and the caller ID supports their claim.
If you get a phone call from someone claiming to be from the IRS, here’s what you should do:
If you know you owe taxes or you think you might owe taxes, call the IRS at 1.800.829.1040. The IRS employees at that line can help you with a payment issue – if there really is such an issue.
If you know you don’t owe taxes or have no reason to think that you owe any taxes (for example, you’ve never received a bill or the caller made some bogus threats as described above), then call and report the incident to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration at 1.800.366.4484.
If you’ve been targeted by this scam, you should also contact the Federal Trade Commission and use their “FTC Complaint Assistant” at FTC.gov.  Please add "IRS Telephone Scam" to the comments of your complaint.
Taxpayers should be aware that there are other unrelated scams (such as a lottery sweepstakes) and solicitations (such as debt relief) that fraudulently claim to be from the IRS.
The IRS encourages taxpayers to be vigilant against phone and email scams that use the IRS as a lure. The IRS does not initiate contact with taxpayers by email to request personal or financial information.  This includes any type of electronic communication, such as text messages and social media channels. The IRS also does not ask for PINs, passwords or similar confidential access information for credit card, bank or other financial accounts. Recipients should not open any attachments or click on any links contained in the message. Instead, forward the e-mail to phishing@irs.gov.

More information on how to report phishing scams involving the IRS is available on the genuine IRS website, IRS.gov.

http://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/IRS-Warns-of-Pervasive-Telephone-Scam

IRS call this 3rd time from 3 diff numbers all from DC. All of those numbers has been reported as scam. I believe government should take some actions imagine how many people they get this way.  

These guys seem to be based in India.  They used to call all the time using different numbers.  Used to be a human and it was as though they were reading off of a script.  With thick Indian accents, they identified themselves using fake American names.  The names didn't match up with the accents.  Now they've started calling using a computer-generated female voice via a robocall.  I think this is what happens when companies outsource their telemarketing to India.  Since the call center workers already have our phone numbers and certain personal information, they seem to have come up with that idea to use their call center facilities and resources to perpetrate their own scam while on their employer's dime.  Apparently it works too, incredibly.  They seem to target Indians, especially elderly ones.  I guess they think when you hit 60, you go senile or something.  

I got a voicemail with this message from this number12409497507:
"The issue is very time sensitive. So before I are take any legal action against your name. Call ARS as soon as possible"

I called back, the man didn't have Indian accent but he was rude asking to speak to my husband and I asked what this is concerning and he wouldn't give me any information, just told me to ask my husband to call him back. I asked, "you're from IRS?" and he replied "yes." I asked him how he got my numbers, he called my house and my mobile asking for my husband but won't tell me what this is about. His rude response," that's a stupid question" and hung up on me. I called him back 3 times and he kept hanging up on me. Then the fourth time, he spoke a foreign language and called me a [***].

Definitely 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

Just got off the phone after 30 minutes talking to "Steve Johnson" with Indian accent LOL
He informed me that I owed $4,785.00, and if I didn't pay within an hour, the authorities would show up and take everything I own, and me to jail.
Told him I had to go to the bank, but didn't have a way to get there. He offered to call a taxi, so  told him I lived in the country and could not make it 300 feet to unlock the gate (since I am wheelchair bound) LOL
 I came up with excuse after excuse. Now we are waiting for my son (that I do not have) to get off work and take me to the bank to empty my account of $1,556.00. LOL

I received a voice mail from a man with a thick Indian accent Officer David Malore advising he was from the IRS and that I am a primary suspect for a very serious issue.  There was an error discovered in my tax calculations.  Stated this was an urgent matter so do not try to disregard and to call him back as soon as possible.  The caller also advised that the call was Legal and very urgent so I can also have my tax attorney contact him at 202-629-0971 ext. 193.

I will not be returning that call.

I got this message and I find it hilarious that the only name the guy with the thick Indian accent could come up with was Bruce Wayne. Please don't fall for this scam, and report it to the FTC. If your number is on a do not call list then the FTC should enforce its protection, not allow it to be used.

Original call from New Mexico 505-898-9403 I did not answer in time and a  long message was left by David Mullex?... ,  from the IRS .  In short it said that it was very urgent, I needed to call back the IRS, 202-629-0971, extension 192.

Call from unknown number from 1-206-708-2849.  Left a message, "This is Officer Alex Foster from the IRS Tax Audit Dept.  It is imperative that you or your attorney call me back.  This is in reference to an Income Tax deficiency.  If you do not call back you will have to deal with an officer at your home.  Please do not ignore this message and call me back.  Again my name is Officer Alex Foster with the IRS Tax Audit Dept.  Please call 202-629-0971 EXT. 616."  When I called the original number on my phone it was no longer in service. (Go figure).  When I called the number given he wanted our SS# and info right off the bat.  I asked why we did not receive a letter from the IRS and he got a irritated.  TOTAL SCAM!!!!!!!  DO NOT GIVE OUT ANY INFO!!!!!

A dumb [***] deep voice man just called my phone and left a message. I called the number back 202-629-0971 and asked to speak to Rick Jonson ext.104 but I got transferred to a senior officer named Jake Dawson..so apparently I owed taxes in the amount of $2785 and only had less than an hour to send the money thru western union or between 4:30&5:30 this evening I will be getting arrested and everything I own will be seized!! They are such idiots..but I let them talk and talk and I maje like I'm so scared and I will send them the money and then I just tell them off. I start swearing and they'll swear back and hang up!!!