866-978-6544

keep calling me every day scammers

Got this message on the voicemail:

"Name concerning a tax situation(?) case attacks before you can say. So before this matter registered into the Federal claims court house I'll before you get arrested by the County Sheriff's. Kindly call us back whenever call back number which is 8669786544 8669786544. Don't disregard this message and do return the call. Again this is James Anderson to know about this case kindly press one now. To ignore this message please press nine. Thank you. You have a great day. Goodbye."

There is a fairly common IRS or "tax scam" being practiced by scammers in both Canada and the USA.
USA tax payers should read this:
http://www.irs.gov/uac/Tax-Scams-Consumer-Alerts
Note particularly the links at that site, warning of the scam!

A shorter explanation is Scam  #11, as shown at
http://phonehelp.2truth.com/facts.html

That site also shows how other 800notes visitors have reduced the number of telephone scams and telemarketing calls they receive. (That site also has a link to Amazon's phone blocker devices and apps, as well as a page showing various government sites that accept complaints or warn about scams.)

Received a call today from this number around 12:45 PM....a man with a very thick and almost understandable accent stated my name correctly and he was from (indistinguishable) company...then something about courts and to call back ASAP. I did not attempt to call back, but sounds like a tax scam.

Received a call today from 866-978-6544 number around 10:00 AM....a man state his name Dwayn Carter and also give his ID number, he speak with a very thick and almost understandable accent stated my name correctly and he was from IRS...then something about courts and to call back ASAP.

He called me asking for 1900 in unpaid taxes

I got a call which was identical to this. This is my 50th call but luckily my calls always go to voicemail and it is more annoying than anything else.

I got a call about tax evasion, tax fraud which is a scam and is annoying

I got the calls from 866-978-6544 saying they are IRS in the last two days.  All are scam calls.  Somebody got to put a stop to this.

Message yesterday, heavy accent speaker. "IRS tax audit--court----arrest". Usual scam stuff. Called back today. I told caller I knew this was a scam and hung up. They called back 3 more times threatening arrest and jail. I notified the real IRS on their tax scam number found at www.irs.gov. I hope somebody does go to jail, last I heard impersonating a government official was illegal.

I got the call from this number today. Similar message as the one described here. It asked me to call 18669206544. I checked the ID and the call in number was 18669786544, I call the later and someone called Brand Smith introdused himself as IRS. He told me that they have been trying to reach me via mail as I was being acused for tax evasion since September 2013 but the letters have been returning back because there was no one to receive them so they decided to send the case to the federal court, but they called me to offer me a last chance. I told them that I need to check with my lawyer and will call them back (intentionally to see their reaction). His reply was: You can do as you wish sir but if you don't settle now you this phone will be disconnected and the case will go straight to court. That's when I started using french and he hanged up the phone. I wish I could get my hands on one of them.

Just checked my elderly mothers voice mail and the same tax fraud Message was on it. She was terrified them saying she could go to jail. These people need to be stopped.  8669786544

irs scammer threatening phone calls other phone numbers 202-506-8969 and 888-705-1251

I got a call from this number about a month ago, very threatening (that the IRS would arrest me for tax evasion). I ignored it. This week I got a very similar call from this number, with a similar threat. This was followed by a call from area code 850 with a name and threat.  Are these scammers trying to scare people? Since i have not committed any kind of crime, I should not worry, right? The calls are upsetting nevertheless, and I believe their purpose is to upset people.

I just received three calls from them this morning - let two go to voice-mail and finally answered the third to tell them to remove me from their call list (I know, I need to sign up for the 'do-not-call' service.)  I echo everything posted previously.  But, what is their gain other than to scare people?  They represented they were from the Internal Revenue Service and all.  I spoke to two people - both had very thick accents, so I was suspicious the whole time....but none-the-less it is unsettling.  What is their ultimate gain from this?

[***] pretending to be the IRS to try to scam my dad. Voicemail stating that some sort of tax fraud lawsuit was put against my dad. Luckily I knew it was fake right away because they didn't use his legal name. Called them 5 times back and they gave me five different case numbers and five different amounts that I owed the IRS. They couldn't verify nothing. After the fifth time when i called them out on their [***], he hung up on me. Then 10 minutes later, I get a phone call from 216-586-4455 from the same person pretending to be a police officer. Said he would be at my house in 45 minutes to arrest me and have sex with my mother. Sneaky [***]. Sent an email to the actual IRS to report what happened.

We are repeatedly getting the IRS-related scam calls/voicemails from this number. It is very annoying. The person has a very thick accent. Talks about arrests etc.

my wife got the same call & when I called back I knew it was a scam instantly so I hung up & they called back saying we were going to jail, wrong move reached out to my facebook friends and we have bombed them with thousands of calls with auto dialers & soundboards, they have to pay for every call being a 1800# :)

Today morning I got the call but I was busy so it went on message saying that they are from IRS and they have some legal application against us.He is going to capture our house and we will be arrested.I got little worried and called my husband and he said it's a Scam call.then in afternoon they called me that I didn't respond to the message so they are going to send county police and issue non bail warrant and they are going froze our bank account.he did even knew where do we live?our names also?he said we have to pay $2900 within 45 min otherwise He is going to call Cop.I called my husband and He called them back and they said the same thing to him but my husband found it's a scam.please do something with these kind of scam.These people need to be stopped.

Report them to the Real IRS here:

IRS:   http://www.irs.gov/
phishing@irs.gov

http://www.irs.gov/uac/Tax-Scams-Consumer-Alerts
https://800notes.com/forum/ta-8c2f64bf2b91fa5/irs-warns-of-telephone-scam

•If you owe federal taxes, or think you might owe taxes, hang up and call the IRS at 800-829-1040. IRS workers can help you with your payment questions.
•If you don’t owe taxes, call and report the incident to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration at 800-366-4484.
•You can also file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission at FTC.gov. Add "IRS Telephone Scam" to the comments in your complaint.

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_24016224/fremon ... ty-targeted-irs

http://www.dallasnews.com/business/columnists ... ity-thieves.ece

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-m ... y#axzz2wk6O5un4