I work a lot from home. Sometimes it gets a little boring. I eagerly wait for these calls. This is the 3rd time they called me today, from CID, with a warrant for my arrest. Definitely a scam, but still worth while giving them some BS, without giving them any info. I told them I had already worked out a repayment plan. They will call back in 5 minutes for the name & phone number of who I talked to to make the repayment arrangements. I have the name & telephone number of our police dept. office in charge of investigations and scams, for when they call back, I hope.

I received a call from a "Kevin/Damon Marshall" from the Criminal Investigation Division with the IRS saying that there was a warrant out for my arrest.  He gave me his Badge Number and instructed me to write the warrant number down and to listen to him carefully.  He had a foreign accent and it was very difficult to even understand what he was saying.  I was so outraged at this  -- I kept asking him what his call was in reference to.  He then proceeded to raise his voice to me and kept repeating himself with the warrant ID number and then telling me to write it down.  I then I promptly hung up and blocked any future calls from this person.  Needless to say, it was very upsetting...... and supposedly I have an unlisted number.  

I received a call from Kevin Williams from the CID-IRS.  Being a recent widow, this was very disturbing as he had my husband's full name and my complete address.  He said I assumed all responsibility for the debts of my husband and now there was a warrant out for my arrest.  If I chose to settle 'out of court' for a sum of $2500.00 immediately, the debt would be forgiven.  When I told him that I would be contacting a member of my family (an attorney), he was very rude.
These guys are very persistent!!  Beware....

This is a Pakistan or India based IRS scam. Do not fall for it. The IRS does not initiate any legal action via phone.  
Read http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/press/press_tigta-2014-03.htm

As general background information, here are a few things you can do:
1) Report it to TIGTA under http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/contact_report_scam.shtml especially if you have become a victim (lost money, gave personal information etc.). You can also file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission at ftc.gov/complaint (include “IRS Telephone Scam" in your complaint). This way you can also help the government establish specific fraud patterns.

2) Help kill their phone lines. The scammers use Voice over IP lines (e.g. magicJack (Ymax corporation)) to make it seem as if they are calling from the US. This is always against these companys' terms of service and can lead to immediate termination of their contract and blocking of their IP addresses for future attempts to register. Do a reverse look up of their telephone number (e.g. www.whitepages.com) to identify the Voice over IP provider and report it to the company and or law enforcement (local police and/or state attorney general)

3) If you are really annoyed: call or write to your representative in Congress. As these scams happen all over the country maybe this will trigger a reaction and provide US law enforcement agencies with the political backing and the resources they need to work in India and Pakistan together with local authorities (it can happen, read: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/ex-call-cen ... mmission-320427). A US task force has already been set up in Jamaica to nab scammers there (see http://www.ice.gov/doclib/news/library/reports/cornerstone/cornerstone7-1.pdf). You can use the following template for your letter (more powerful!) or email:

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