530-456-0021

IRS Scam...Recorded message to call immediately about unpaid taxes.  Ask for Agent Steve Martin.  The last time I knew Steve Martin was a comedian.

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/

Sick & tired of these scamming calls. Be a man/woman about your true call and stop pretending to be the IRS.

Recorded message "extremely time sensitive" agent Nikki Johnson. Call from Gridley CA.

Called my cell and said in a SIRI voice to called immediately and said they were from the IRS.I know there is no way the IRA would leave a message  We called and once they knew we were educated, they immediately cussed us out.  I asked them how it feels to try to scam people,  John and Mary will answer and even call you back.  I have blocked 2 numbers and they are NOT from California- India.

Also got a call from Gridley, CA at 8:11 am EST. They left a message to call;  fat chance that I will.  BTW that would be 4:11 am on the west coast.

That happened to me at 6:55am this morning. Agent Nikki Johnson. Call from Gridley CA.

Called me this morning..vm nikki johnson....i called back it sounded like an indian man voice ...he asked what number i called from an after i told him he said he was looking for a different named person..

These guys must be overseas SCAMMERS!!! They must know it's tax time and called (or was it auto-dialed?) thru the domestic # 530-456-0021 (Gridley, CA?) my number a few mins. ago and a lady's recorded voice (was the voice computer generated too?) said this "This is the IRS calling. Please do not ignore this call. We are calling for a very important reason," (yeah, right!!!) "please call us back at <some other number> before we take any action against you". Unbelievable!!! Need to trace/catch these callers!!!! Guess these guys are in business as there is no international "do not call" list/rules/laws?!! Rotten swindlers!!! Re-registered all my numbers in the National Do Not Call List immediately (guess my 5 year validity was over and they somehow came to know about it??)!!

Yup...Officer Nikki Johnson

I also received a call this morning 3/2/15 at 9:00 A.M. stating that this is a call  from the Internal Revenue Service. My name is Officer Nikki Johnson- call us back at 530-456-0021. Do Not Ignore this Call or we will be forced to take further action. The area code is from Gridley, California....-I was smart enough to google this phone # on my computer and as I expected any calls from this number is a SCAM . I called the phone # tonight just to see if anyone would answer and after the phone rang it just cut off the call. We all need to report this so we can get rid of these scammers.

Spammer pretending to be IRS. Yes, I am sure the IRS is working at 6 a.m. California time.

This is definitely a SCAM. I did call it back knowing what I was sortof looking at, and was cursed at. Now, I was at lunch and had some free time on my hands, so I called this number back 8 times so far and have been "harassing" them back in the hopes that they will have to change their number after the issues that they are having.

I got a call today from this number.  A woman left a message the said it was the IRS and that I need to call them immediately, otherwise they will start proceedings against me.  I won't waste my time calling them back.  It's a shame that there are people who have nothing better to do than try to scare and rob people.  Everybody should know that the IRS would never call you out of the blue and leave you a threatening message.  I hope somehow people like this get caught one day and wind up in jail where they belong.  These websites are great for communication and hopefully will help people who aren't sure whether or not they are being scammed.

Automated phone call saying to call urgently before they have to pursue criminal action.  Last time they called, it was Labor Day, and the voice was foreign.  How stupid!

Officer Nikki Johnson left a message on my phone when I tried to return the call to see what's going on they kept picking up and hanging up.... I am truly the wrong person to be trying to scammmmmmmmmm! Nikki Johnson got a nice message from me...

This is Niki Johnson and I am from the IRS and it is urgent that you do not disreguard this message. Please call 530-456-0021 before legal steps are taken.

I did not answer but I thought it funny that about 5 rings in I got a call from the same number which I did not answer either. Maybe they won't call back today since I got my 2 calls for the day. Of course I did not answer.

I rec'd one.  I am an older adult, and the first thing I did was googled the number!  Preying jerks!!

i got one of these calls i answered but it was a recording . urgent the IRS i hungup