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Just last week a young guy I work with came to me and asked "Can the IRS call you and threaten to sue you even if they will not tell you when you did not pay them ?" I asked him what was going on and he said he got a scary call from them saying they were going to have him arrested if he didn't pay up.
I immediately told him to stop any conversations and give me the phone number they called from. He had it in his phone so we Googled it and lots of people were saying they also got calls from that number and it was a scam.
Remember. THE IRS NEVER CALLS YOU TO COLLECT, they send letters and communicate only that way, unless you have opened a dialog with them via the phone.
There must be a special place in Hell for these scammers.
Got a recorded call from a "Ryan Smith", who has a strong East Indian accent saying not to ignore him as he's an officer with Canada Revenue and it's about fraud on my tax return....Gave me a call back number, which I ignored....The name and his accent gave him away...
One left a callback number, so I called back nonstop. They'd stop answering and then I'd start again the next day. They stopped answering it permanently after a week.
Another, about two weeks ago I insulted real hard, he tried to insult me back but couldn't keep up. I had him so furious he could barely speak. I'm guessing in his country, there was a news article about him going postal and taking out a dozen of his fellow IRS agents.
My favorite are the guys from Microsoft helping me fix my computer. My record is 42 minutes with one on the line.
the guys that supposedly call from microsoft, actually claim to be calling from windows. i tell them all to go F themselves, my mother tells them YOU LIE, either way we hang up on them.
What I SO want to do when I get these scam calls, most of them from out of the country, is to just say "I didn't get that, did you just say you were going to assassinate somebody, commit a terrorist act, etc? " Then say I'm going to contact the FBI or the CIA and report them. Maybe they'd get on a watch list with all calls being monitored but I'D most likely be put on one as well and they'd investigate me being a far easier target. Plus the feds are bunglers anyway and I'd doubt they'd bother with real criminals and would again go for an easy target even if it was a waste of time. . It might scare these scammers, though.
I've gotten these scam calls for years...we google the number from caller ID on our phone, and never answer unless it is somebody we know or do business with.
Our local news channel did a story on the IRS calls before.
A man named Ofr David Miller (yet w/ a strong broken/Indian accent) calling "on behalf of the IRS/Fed Bureau" left my SO "to pay $XXX accumulated btwn 2009 & 2014 or else they'll be an arrest warrant."
My SO was rattled & even called the guy back (ay, ay, ay ), but claims he didn't give this guy any info...I sure hope! I know for a fact too that the IRS nor any other so-called company w/ the IRS never calls, but only mails letters.
The phone number the person was calling from was 914 - 297 - 6412.
Anyone else get these calls? This is my second year in a row receiving them. They will leave you an automated message saying they're the irs, and you're about to be sued. When you answer, they threaten you. I knew it was a scam, so I played along for a bit and then said some choice words to them, and they immediately hung up. They were calling 5x a day, but after they realized I'm not a sucker, they took my name off. Scary that a lot of old folks fall for this and give out their bank info to these crooks.
Yep, my elderly mom on hospice got one and she was real upset. After they threatened to sue they told here they would call back. She hung up.
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), but claims he didn't give this guy any info...I sure hope! 
