567-220-1614

Michael Freeman claims he is with IRS and suing me. He never called me by name or gave a badge number. He spoke poor English and said it was time sensitive call back immediately. SCAM

My mother and mil also received calls. I just received one 5 minutes ago. Yes, a scam. The IRS DOES NOT CALL YOU!

I have been receiving them all morning.  Indian speaking guy that u cant understand!! SCAM!!!!

Phone call of incredibly poor quality connection with poorly spoken Indian accent saying that he is from the IRS and that this is a matter of extreme importance and very time sensitive. I've gotten two this morning, about an hour and a half apart.

Got a call this morning twice, i called back the first time to see who it was and he wouldn't tell me.  He just kept asking "what is your name?" I got suspicious and asked him who he worked for and he started saying that i'm the only person the US that won't give a name (haha) and then said i must be a criminal if i don't want to give it.  Same as the others, bad accent, difficult to understand.  Big time scam.

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

I received two phone calls from this number this morning. Nobody was on the other end. I called back and some guy with a foreign accent picked up. I had asked if everything was OK and he insisted they did not call me and that "everything is fine" and that "911 will be on their way." I laughed and said, "Good thing! I'm literally on fire right now! I'm so glad I called you back." He responded with "Have a lovely evening and a nice long weekend with the lovely Jennifer Lopez." Very surreal… Nice to talk to criminals first thing in the morning...

Just started receiving calls from this number today (567-220-1614). There were 4 calls between 8am and noon. I searched for the number on here and saw that it was a scam, so I did not answer any of the calls.

Called claiming to be from IRS saying that I owe $2100.00 in taxes to them. Trying to make me pay the amount over the phone, and if I didn't pay it at the moment the FBI will be at my house to arrest me and my wife.

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

Have received multiple calls this Morning from this number (567) 220-1614 on my cell phone and didn't answer, but they kept calling. I finally called the number back and no one answered and figured it might be a scam. After researching I now see that it's another foreign scammer. It seems like a lot of these scam calls are coming from foreigners from the Middle East and it seems like I'm averaging 1 to 2 scam calls a day.

[***] from india called me and waked me up early morning saying he is from the offender office. Hard accent. I reminded him his mother and he said I go to jail. Lmao. SCAM

Scam india accent saying he is calling from offender office. I reminded him his mother and to fck himself daily. He said I was going to jail.Scam

Michael Freeman, a very thick Indian accented man, called me from IRS (and had to then stipulate that stood for the Internal Revenue Service).  Call was at 7 am.  He left threatening, belligerent message about starting a law suit against me if he didn't hear back from me immediately.  And if I didn't call back, he wished me the best of luck in my legal battles......  This is the 3rd or 4th call from this scam.  I have reported to the IRS - you can too at www.tigta.gov.  If anyone out there believes that the IRS hires thick accented Indians to make phone calls to collect money over the phone AND wish you the best of luck (LOL), then you have more problems than this scam.  NONE of these fit or make sense.  :)  

Recieved 5 phone calls just TODAY from this number.  The guy speaks horrible English and says it's time sensitive information about the IRS sueing me.

I received multiple calls today from this number. Not thinking clearly I called it back. This Michael Freeman claimed to be a federal officer for the US Govt when I demanded a manager. He claimed I owed 2100 for being in default on taxes from 08-13 and that I must pay today or a federal warrant would be issued for my arrest! Total scam!!!

Fake IRS call. I have been audited by the IRS once. Their number is a 1-800. And they would not leave you a voice mail like this. You would also receive notification by mail first. Don't respond its a scam.