Mar 7, 2014
I got a call from this number yesterday. The person identified himself as "Roy Cage" and started outright threatening me. He said that if I was aware of a pending lawsuit against me and that he was from the "Criminal Investigation Unit" of IRS. The whole episode was very suspicious, since he could not get a bunch of facts straight. I asked him what am I being investigated for and he kept saying there is a warrant. When I said I do not owe anything to IRS he got even more angry and then said he was from FBI and IRS would never talk to me directly. Then I told him that I just typed his name in google and it came as a scam he said that he is neither in IRS nor in FBI but in a collection agency. I pushed him even further asking where he was based or which collection agency -- he said "DC" and then said " wait for the police on your doorstep to seize your property, Good bye!". As much as I knew that this was a scam, it was still disconcerting since threats are never pleasant to hear.
Anyway, this was after hours at 6 pm and then this morning I called up the IRS Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration hotline at 1.800.366.4484. You should press 5 to talk to an IRS official and tell him what happened. The IRS person asked me what number was this "Roy Cage" calling from and when I told him he said that they are already under investigation. Next time anyone calls, and says anything similar, just tell him that they are already under investigation.
You can find more about these kinds of scams at :
http://www.irs.gov/uac/Report-Phishing
Lets do our best to report every time we get a call from them.