415-506-1297

Three robocall voicemail messages left on the same day within 3 hours. The real IRS does not flood you with calls like an impatient teenager.

"...record to return the call. The issue at hand is extremely time sensitive. I am Officer Julie Smith from Internal Revenue Service and the hotline to my position is 4155061297. I repeat, it's 4155061297. Don't disregard this message and do return the call before we take any action against you. Good bye and take care."

Report fake IRS calls here:

http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/contact_report_scam.shtml

Good thing I heard about this scam a couple months ago. I just got my second call from them this morning. Guess I'll get a third in a bit?

Somehow, I don't think real IRS agents are calling east coast from west coast at 5:30 AM on a holiday. Fail.

I just got 3 calls this AM within 2 hours from this number also. no voicemail left.

Spam caller. Called 5 times in one day.

2 voicemail robo messages, same text as noted above. Scam. I really doubt a real IRS agent would close with ... And take care.

I received the same call this morning exactly with the same message.

Reveived 3 calls from 415-506-1297...same voice message recording from Officer Julie Smith as others have reported...

. I am Officer Julie Smith from Internal Revenue Service and the hotline to my position is 4155061297. I repeat, it's 4155061297. Don't disregard this message and do return the call before we take any action against you.

We received exactly the same call as quoted above.  Upon callback they wanted me to drive to my bank, withdraw the amount owed to IRS (and we do actually owe the IRS some money as the result of an audit, but it was not due yet) in cash and then take the cash to the nearest Rite-Aid Pharmacy and send the full amount to them by a method they called a "Cash Voucher" or something like that.  AND they wanted me to remain on the phone with them during this entire errand!

This is a magicJack number.  You can confirm this fact by going to http://www.phonevalidator.com , entering the phone number into the space provided for it and the code "to verify that you are a human" into the space provided for it.  Then click on the "SEARCH" button.

The next screen will show the following:

Phone Number:    415-506-1297    
Date of this Report:    November 14, 2014
Phone Line Type:    LANDLINE
Phone Company:    YMAX CORP -- POSSIBLE MAGICJACK VOIP
Phone Location:    NOVATO, CA

Because YMAX Corporation is a "captive" corporation of the company that owns the magicJack brand and makes almost all of its money selling those devices (and service for the devices), you can be nearly 100% certain (at least insofar as my best guess is concerned) that this number is coming from a magicJack device.  These devices are sold in India for use in calling to the United States.  The cost of a typical magicJack device in India is less than $100 US, and it provides, for a period of three months to a year, free calling into and out of the US just by plugging the device into the Internet from anywhere in the world and a free US phone number that can be selected by the magicJack user from many different area codes.

This somewhat dated thread that I started, but which is still available on this site, explains what is going on with fake IRS agents and magicJack numbers:
https://800notes.com/forum/ta-97219e249ee2fc8 ... gicjack-numbers

You can see that if an Indian scammer scores even ONE hit on a US citizen, the scammer makes not only enough money to pay for the original magicJack, but a pretty decent profit (by Untouchable standards, anyway) on his investment.

Of course, things have gotten much worse since then.  Also, I suspect that some scammers are porting numbers out of other phone service providers to YMAX Corporation to try to make their cowardly scheme less obvious.  But that isn't the case here.

"The issue at hand is extremely time sensitive. I am office Julie Smith for the IRS and the hotline to my
posittion is 415-506-1297.  Don't disregard this message and do return the call before we take action against you." Received a called on November 13, 2014 from a similar number 415-506-1298. Message
has been left for my husband also from 202-821-1155 stating the person is from Legal  Affairs and legal
action is being taking against.  Our Phone Provider need to take legal action against these scammers because or elderly can be taking advance of who is on a fixed income. These scammers need to be jail.

I just got the same phone call from "officer Julie Smith"........ Gotta be a scam....how many IRS "officers" do you know who end their message with "take care!".....UGH!!!!