***SCAM ALERT*** I missed a call from this number and was left the following voicemail (transcribed by Google Voice) "I am calling from the legal affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department. My badge number is 9165. The nature and the purpose of this call is regarding an enforcement action which has been executed by the U.S. Treasury Department regarding a tax fraud against your name. Ignoring this will be an intentional attempt to avoid initial appearance before a magistrate judge or a grand jury for a federal criminal offense. So, before this matter goes to the federal claims court house, or before you get arrested, kindly call us back on our number as soon as possible. The number to reach us is 760-284-3373. Let me repeat the number again 760-284-3373. Hope to hear from you soon before the charges are pressed against you, thanks.". I called the number back knowing it's an obvious scam and the agent that answered was clearly not in the USA nor any part of the U.S. Treasury Department. The agent actually told me that he is located in Damascus, Syria.

I wouldn't call him a agent, its a extortion scammer. And calling from Syria doesn't surprise me as most of these calls have coming from India and Pakistan.

http://www.irs.gov/uac/Tax-Scams-Consumer-Alerts
http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/contact_report.shtml
http://800notes.com/forum/ta-8c2f64bf2b91fa5/irs-warns-of-telephone-scam

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/prosecutor ... s-scam-32296852

Report the Calls to the real IRS here:
•report the incident to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration at 800-366-4484.
•You can also file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission at FTC.gov. Add "IRS Telephone Scam" to the comments in your complaint.

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Do consider getting a call blocking device or phone.. You can google them and many are around $40.00 or so.If its a cell phone, some already have call blocking, if not, there are free apps on the web that will work for some. You can google this. If you have a smart phone, there is a free app called call control. Iphones appear to have apps also. Another one is called Mr. Number.

For tracfone & straight talk:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id ... .tracfone&hl=en
http://extras.straighttalk.com/en
http://www.youmail.com/home/carriers/straight-talk/block-number
https://www.straighttalkwirelessforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=6803&t=55006

Got the same call "tax fraud charge"
Called back no answer

I received a call from them stating I owed fro 2009 and 2013. The caller had a thick accent, threatened me with GPS, arrest, and owing a huge amount ($45,000)! Just terrible!!!! OMG get a regular job and stop scamming! I hung up...

I got a call from this morning he gave me a case number and asked questions that made no sense and stated an address i never lived at then he hung up saying he had the wrong person