866-978-7999

Nice try Raj! Now go away! No one is falling for your scams anymore. The IRS does NOT call anyone! EVER! They use the good old U.S. Postal Service!
Skeff Ett Liv!
Gunnar

866 978 7999
Claim to be the IRS, demanding we owe them money, and it needs to be paid in full or we will be serve with papers the next morning and go to jail. The man had a Indian accent

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 didn't know the IRS employs burros - do they also employ horses?  Do they use them to carry the files around the file room?

No, it's not.  No you didn't.

You shills really need to learn when the gig is up, don't you?

The REAL IRS toll free numbers are here:

http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesse ... ll-Free-Numbers

What, you couldn't come up with anything else to say, "John"?  

The REAL IRS hotlines/toll free numbers are right here:

http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesse ... ll-Free-Numbers

>>> This is a toll free no of real IRS in Washington dc <<<

Sorry.  This appears to be the current number of a person or group calling itself "USTechGuys."  See, for example,

http://ustechguys.com/contact-us.html

According to GoDaddy's whois lookup, the site "ustechguys.com" is registered to "Domains By Proxy, LLC," which effectively hides the name of those who actually own the domain name.  I know that there are sometimes legitimate reasons for someone to do that, but note that the registration was created on 01-10-2014 and ends 01-10-2015.  Thus, this is a new company, and its web site with the number 866-978-7999 plastered all over it can be assumed to be new and current.

On the "Contact Us" page of their web site, they give a Homestead, Florida telephone number, but no street address.  If you click on their Google Maps inset on that page, it takes you to a generic Homestead, FL location.  However, if you check the Florida Department of State Division of Corporations Corporation, Limited Partnership, Limited Liability Company, Trademark Search By Entity Name in Florida as a whole:

http://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/ByName

you will find no corporation, state trademark, LLC, or LP by the name of US Tech Guys registered to do business in Florida at all.

By the way, calling this number from a safe phone (one that dials ONLY toll-free numbers, but that does not have a number of its own), does connect to a  person with a south Asian (probably Indian) accent who answers, "Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Unit, how may I help you?" without giving his name.  On the other hand, dialing the Homestead, FL number just gives me a fast busy signal after 6 rings.  You can draw your own conclusions from all of this.

I am surprised we haven't have a shill pull a stunt like this sooner. But at the same token, this isn't exactly what I was expecting. Either way, they couldn't be more obvious.

I would rather take my chances dialing a 900 number.

866-978-7999 is a fake IRS number used by criminals.

Can't believe how dumb these Indian scammers are.   I guess this site and others must be cutting into their income stream.

MidNYteStorm,  at least with the 900 # you might get some "recreation"

866-978-7999 is also the contact number for a "telephone computer repair service called "US Tech Guys."   Website (USTECHGUYS.COM) is a couple of months old using "Domains By Proxy" to hide their identities.

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=ustechguys.com

The website is a couple of pages of fluff containing a second number, 786-465-2666, that the site alleges is Hometead, FL,  (no street address, naturally) but whitepages.com reports it as "1-786-465-2666 Level3 VoIP in Miami, FL,"  so it could be anywhere.  

One of the "testimonials" from the website, from one Mac Fry, states: "They are very good they fixed my computer magically!”

Needless to say, Florida business records have no info on them, even though they claim  "24/7 worldwide availability.  "

Probably not connected with the IRS.

Check out the similarities of the shills/scammers posts on:

https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-866-978-8320
and
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-866-978-7999 (which I reported on earlier).

I think we've found the same guys, but with different toll-free numbers.