May 31, 2014
Some a-hole with a thick foreign accent called, claiming to be an IRS Auditor, and claimed I had apparently ignored a legal notice from the IRS. The said legal notice supposedly should have been answered within 60 days. Since I didn't respond (and they claim to have proof of delivery signature) within that time frame, he said an arrest warrant would be issued unless I turned myself to the local police within the next sixty minutes. I was given a specific warrant id. If I didn't turn myself in, I was going to be summoned to court "tomorrow morning". All of it with an air of authority that would scare the bazookas out of an uninformed person.
Well, I was fairly certain, within a few minutes, this was fraud. Nevertheless I called the IRS and verified that no such legal notice was sent to me. Also contacted the police department and lodged a complaint at the www.tigta.gov web site.
Pity that some low life forms would create such elaborate scams and waste people's time.