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Received a call from this number today. A person with a heavy accent left a threatening message, wishing me luck if I chose not to return the call.

a person 'adam Anthony," with a robotic voice left a threatening message and wishing me good luck if my attorney or myself did not return his call.

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 just got a call from them and when they said IRS i hung up it was this morning today april 11, 2014 about 10:10 am

I received this call too.... seems like one of those scams

I received a call from them, but was unable to answer so a robotic voice left a message saying basically the same thing as stated above. The only difference started with irs and then said he was the police and the number was to their precinct.

I'm tempted to phone the call back number to [***] with them.

For the life of me, I don't understand how a scam this incompetent can work.  I mean, who the hell falls for this [***]?

I got a similar call from the number.

I got same call this morning...Try to call back by hiding caller ID can't get through all I hear was the recording " ext 3033 is busy please leave message....sorry mail box is full can't take message" ....I called from other number than person with heavy accent gave me fake IRS agent name and badge num ...I wish could have find out more about them ...feel so annoyed wanna bit the s##T out of that mofo

I received 2 messages from an "Officer Adam Scott" who left a threatening message as he's from the IRS.  He noted that if I "chose to not return" the call then he wished me "good luck" and that I needed to contact my attorney.

I'm glad that I found this post.

Who falls for it?? People who do not realize it is some Indian calling from India or those who do not know that the IRS would send written documentation.  They use the scare factor to extort money from the unsuspecting.

My husband just did and cursed them out to the point that they apologized him and promised not to call me ever again lol