person answers and switches call to a "Career Degree" answering machine.

Unless you love getting played & enjoy giving all of your hard earned money to low life scammers who can't make it in the real world so they have to hide behind the Internet to rob you. . .. Then don't answer.

Called me 3 times in a row and I didn't answer. I think they do that to bypass a din not disturb setting which will put a call through if the same number calls 3 times in quick succession because it assumes it's an emergency call. [***]!  The comments say it's a scam so I assume that's correct.

Message they said I was being investigated for tax fraud.... um yes, sure. IRS sends certified letters not voicemails.

they call me 4-5 times a day.  They say something about someone being hearing impaired in my family, which is incorrect, and they tell me to press "1" to be taken off the list, which is BS because it's a live person on a "recorded line" and pressing 1 does absolutely nothing. I tell them to stop calling me every time and they hang up on me and call back again in a few hours/the next day.