Dec 5, 2016
First, no one is selling your number to these scammers except maybe other scammers. They use computers that call numbers in sequence so unless they have your name, it is highly unlikely they got your number from anyone. Second, these criminals are operating from a foreign country and it takes cooperation from that country to shut these scams down. Recently India arrested a group running this type of IRS agent scam but there are many more out there still not caught and new ones rapidly replace those caught.