206-512-1504

IRS tax scam threatening arrest

I got a missed call from him, so I called back, claimed to be from the IRS and asked for my name and phone number. I have friends who are IRS agents and constantly tell me about this scam, the IRS never calls, they send letters out to you, and if you owe money, they will simply initiate legal proceedings, they would never call to warn you. Haha. So I told the guy, ohhhh you are just a scammer, I thought it was a real call. He said what? I told him, you are just a scammer, I thought it was a friend of mine calling but you are just an indian scammer. He just hung up. If he was a real IRS agent he wouldn't simply hang up and not call back to try to contact me again if I owed so much money haha this guy . ..

I received a phone message from a person purporting to be from the IRS who indicating I would be arrested if I did not respond to the call.  The individual spoke with an Indian (Asia) accent and left the following call back.  206-512-1504.

Seemed fishy so I Googled the number and found that this is a scam.   AS another poster indicated, the IRS doesn't call.  They send letters.    

I received a call from this phone number urging me to call back before i was sued. my husband called back and the phone is out of service that night. Next day another call . i called and got someone and was immediately harassed and yelled at about all i had not filed on 6 yrs of taxes. They too impersonate federal treasury agents. I was told i had 90,000 owed in fines but all was told was to secure a lawyer and i would be arrested on Friday of this week 9/5/14, all accounts frozen.  They just need to have 5 minutes alone with my husband.

http://www.irs.gov/uac/Tax-Scams-Consumer-Alerts
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 maybe getting a call blocking device or phone.. You can google them and many are around $60.00 or so.

This person pretending to be the IRS agent is a scam just like everybody else I was call o d asked for money as we all know IRS sends out certified mail if you have a problem I hope this helps somebody else

Just got a call from an Indian accented alleged IRS employee who said I intentionally defrauded the gov for $95,000 and they were going to send officials to my home within 3 hours to arrest me.  I asked a bunch of questions, received no answers, and was treated rudely.  Once I got off the phone and googled the phone #, I was SHOCKED that soooo many are being targeted by this scam.  Am on hold right now with official IRS to report scam.  Wish I could come face to face with these jerks!!!!!

Just got the call same story the irs is filing a criminal case I didn't let him get any further I hope he is caught and thrown in jail

Phone Number Report: 9-5-2014 Got a call from 888-393-2449 with a man with a heavy accent (similar to the other postings) saying that they where calling from IRS. Said I needed to call them back because I owed taxes and I could be arrested. So I called back and talked with a Richard Hudson and a (Sean Johnson who left the original message similar accent) he asked for my name first and last and wanted the address which I would not give! He put me on hold to verify address came back and said for me to stay there, because agents where coming to arrest me within 3 hours and I would
Phone Number Report: Held for 48 hours! I asked for a ID number from him and he gave me #511545! I left the house and my roommate said they called back and didn't leave a message! I ask where he was calling from and he said Washington, D.C.

Yep, your caller 'Richard Hudson' and the person you made the very serious mistake of calling, back 'Sean Johnson', ARE with the IRS--Iindian [***] Scammers--IRS. NOW you can expect many more scam calls!

My wife just received same call from heavily accented " Leroy Jones" same BS about defrauding the IRS.  

Leroy called us as well, sending agents to arrest me and my employer if I did not comply. I had fun with him for awhile until he got sick of my questioning him and he hung up :)

Message says you are going to be arrested.

Not to worry!!  Please read Tamianth's comments in this thread.

Same as others You will be arrested and held for 48 hours if you don't take care of this in 60-90 minutes.  They are wishing they would have never called me cause they got an ear full.

I just got the call too. He said his name was "Roger Reed". The IRS doesn't call. They send letters. They start the legal letter trail immediately. I feel bad for the people that get sucked into that 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. 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