“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...
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...
this is the IRS Lawsuit Scam. They may even ask you to call them back urgently without leaving a return-number. Soon, you will get another phone call more threatening
Scammers may take on various roles either over the phone or via email. In addition to IRS impersonators, scammers may impersonate a company. The scammer may provide the company name, their fake employee name, plus a fake employee identification number, reference number, or customer service leve...
P.S. I’m sure that not every additional form on the IRS website represents additional complexity. But I’m also sure that the tax code is far worse than it was in the past. Perhaps the most compelling evidence isthe huge increase in the number of pages neededfor the instruction manual...
The scammers even supposedly assign the recipients an individual “appointed debt collector,” complete with a picture of the employee, her name, telephone number and email address. However, the emails to the domain used in the email address from the screenshot above (debtcredit[dot]com) bounce...
Most Americans would benefit from the blocked phone calls, but the IRS would benefit as well. The IRS is regularly impersonated by scammers. The agency features phone numbers that are only used for incoming calls, but under the new FCC rule, any outgoing calls that are using such numbe...
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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-enforcement agency or trusted...
and will call back shortly. Do not ask for a phone number; instead, ask for the caller’s name and badge number. Hang up, then immediately report the call to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.31Also, email phishing@irs.gov using the subject line “IRS Phone Scam.”32...