Oct 3, 2016
Latest IRS scam call; this one far more sophisticated than most. Caller ID said "CELL PHONE DC." I have been picking up silently, hoping to 'break' the call and expecting to 'confuse' the robodialers of these 'new' number, as yet unblocked calls. Often just get the dead air of the robocall - and then I immediately block the number. BUT the last few times when I've picked up, even though I say **nothing**, an ILLEGAL pre-recorded msg starts playing. Today was a COMPUTER-GENERATED 'female' voice claiming to be the IRS and saying a lawsuit had been filed, blah, blah, blah. Recording said to call this number back, so it must be a WORKING number, although likely to be set up to transfer immediately to a boiler room overseas. (I did NOT call it back.) Wish now I'd let it go to the machine so I'd have evidence for the FBI. These calls REALLY need to stop; SO MUCH is being STOLEN from unsuspecting victims. Also don't understand why we are at the 'top of the list' when we've NEVER been scammed via these phone calls and don't answer or respond to most of them. Beginning to think there are some high powered Washington Players behind these THIEVERY calls.
CALL TYPE: FRAUD