Comments on: IRS Warns Of Increasing Number Of Local Phone Scammers

By: ProudArmyParent

ProudArmyParent — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:51:22 +0000

I also got this call about a month ago. When I called the sheriff’s depart about my concerns I got blown off. So I called the number back and kept the scammer beliving I was so frighten of the IRS showing up at my door.I kept the idiot on the phone for quite sometime. I kept asking him how I could have been so careless by not paying the correct taxes. I thought if the guy was talking to me he wasn’t scamming any of the elderly. I figured give them a taste of the crap! I scammed the scammer! lol

By: sam

sam — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 17:15:04 +0000

got this call a month or so ago on a saturday. you would have to be gullible to get scammed by this. a woman says she is from the irs and that i owe money and if i don”t pay i”m going to jail. really? i told her to bite me. no one from the government works on saturday, they send mail, never a phone call. she left a number to call. got on line with that number and there was, the scam notice, it was nation wide.

By: Betty

Betty — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 16:36:34 +0000

I got a call and wanted me to western union them money…I knew it was a scam because I didn’t owe the IRS..

By: fred

fred — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 15:05:28 +0000

I got one of these on my answering machine a couple of weeks ago. I decided to have some fun with these clowns by calling them back, and asking lots of questions (I only got two questions out before they hung up. they never would answer my calls again). There are several “tells” in these calls – they claim to be at IRS HQ (which is in Washington DC, area code 202) but the phone calls always come from some other area code. They claim they’re taking you to county court and getting the county sheriff to come get you; IRS tries all criminal cases in Federal District Court through the Department of Justice. The amount of money is only about $5000, and you would never be criminally prosecuted for that amount of money – the prosecution guidelines are much higher than that. Their scam is to scare you into giving them your credit card number over the phone – don’t EVER do that.

By: Jane

Jane — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 14:18:33 +0000

This happened to me, twice. First call woke me and angered me. It was a recording. The next call was a recording left on my phone. Both recordings were threatening and pushy and wanted me to call a number to straighten this problem out. I have not had one after these two. My age is what I think they were counting on that would make me a push over……. they were picking on the wrong “antique”. When my mother was alive, they were all over her and they got her money. So, please be aware and be smart. And pay attention to your parents and grandparents as to whether they are being harassed.

By: 429SCJ

429SCJ — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:42:45 +0000

I would be more concerned with the IRS, as opposed to the phone scammers.