there are steps you can follow. If you instead get a phone call from someone that claims to be an agent from the IRS without getting a regular mailed letter first, this is a scam. A fake agent who uses a phone scam may do the following:...
“This is Internal Revenue Services. Your address is under state investigation. The reason for this call is to inform you that IRS is filing lawsuit against you [sic].” For the victims of this scam, the fear of being sent to jail, fined, or having properties t...
P.S. The article also cites thebogus estimate of a $1 trillion tax gap. If theEconomistnow is in the business of uncritically regurgitating make-believe numbers, I’m also willing to play that game. I encourage that magazine’s reporters to call me and I’ll blindly claim that all t...
A huge IRS call center scam based in India, where scammers ripped off Americans to the tune of $300 million by acting like IRS agents to collect back taxes, has completely unraveled as of November 2017. The very last defendant - Indian American Miteshkum
Officer Roder received an urgent phone call from the IRS on his cell phone this morning. He was told he was going to be arrested if he did not call back right away! So... we called them back. Officer Roder used his interrogation skills to scam the scammer. See what happened! (...
2. “Phone Scams” If you’ve ever received a phone call from “an IRS agent” angrily demanding you send them money in the form of iTunes cards, you’ve been targeted by this scam. They take many forms, but they tend to follow a familiar format: pose as someone from a law-enforce...
Some of these IRS phone scams are quite sophisticated, too. The caller ID may be spoofed to look like official IRS numbers. The scammers may also have accurate information about you: things you'd think that only the IRS would know. The IRS will sometimes call you but this is often after...
If you get a scam phone call from someone claiming to be from the IRS and asking for money or your personal financial information, here’s what the IRS says you should do: First, hang up the phone without giving the caller any information. ...
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on objective criteria to identify and block calls that are highly likely to be fraudulent, illegal, or spoofed robocalls. That is, if the carrier can reasonably surmise that a call is a scam call using fake caller ID, carriers could be able to proactively block those calls,” the FCC said...