Oct 13, 2014
Pay no attention. This is a scam to try to harass people into giving up financial and other sensitive information. I received the same call this morning, and have received similar calls from variants of the same number. They have a phone list of numbers that they circulate among themselves, and they try different deception tactics, sometimes pretending to be from the IRS and other times saying that they are law enforcement trying to file a law suit. When I initially began receiving these calls, there was a live person with a very heavy East Indian/ Pakistani accent, leaving a message. Since then, they wized up a bit and started using a completely automated system. I have read on numerous forums that there have been people who have given these criminals a great deal of information, with some even giving them credit card numbers to head off their bogus lawsuits. It is astonishing that more is not being done about this given our current global conflicts. It seems to me that these funds could easily be used to fund terror groups or any other criminal enterprise. Each time I get these calls, I register them with the IRS, but they just call back using different numbers and a slightly different scare tactic.