There's yet a new scam going on right now, and this one involves people calling you. This is the "largest, most pervasive impersonation scam in the history of the agency. (IRS)"

 

Details here:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/dangerous-irs-phone-scam-unfolding-on-your-phone/

 

Bottom line: if you get a call from someone claiming to be with the IRS demanding immediate payment and threatening you with arrest, you are being scammed and you need to hang up the phone.

 

Heard about that on the radio. Smart bastages! Not sure who would believe the "go to the store and get a pre paid card to pay us" line though. 

Geez, scary... Why people would do that is beyond me,

I hope they call.

I love calls like that.

 

I ask some very funny and inappropriate questions.

 

Actually, it can be fun to hear their reaction or have them hang up.

I hope they call.

I love calls like that.

 

I ask some very funny and inappropriate questions.

 

Actually, it can be fun to hear their reaction or have them hang up.

Yes,me too. I had one on the phone for almost 1/2 hr. I was reading   a fishing  article to him ,and kept telling him to "make my day"

 

Often if they ask for someone by name ,I say hold on I`ll get them and lay the phone  where the tv sound can entertain them.

Here's a simple, but effective thing to do.

 

If you have a cordless phone, take it to the bathroom.  Hold it at seat level, and flush.  Then hang up.

Gawd, I would love to be called by one of those pukes.  I would pretend to be caught red-handed, and then start running them around the block with false credit card and bank info.  I'll bet I could keep them on the phone long enough to get to the nearest FBI building.

My sister got called by one of these scammers and when she asked for his name & position as identification, he responded (in a thick Middle Eastern accent) "That is none of your business, you wh**e".   Wrong response to the wrong woman, he didn't get a word in edge-wise for the next 20 minutes.

 

Just know that the IRS will NEVER, repeat NEVER contact you via phone.  All IRS correspondence will always be via mail.

 

 

 

**EDIT** - Let me make a clarification for Mr. "Nitpicky without an explanation" down below.  The IRS will never initiate correspondence with you via the phone.  Once you are in the middle of working on a particular situation, phone calls may be made.  However, they will never be the primary way of contact. 

 

This works well.

 

Take a deep breath & BLOW !

 

A-Jay

My sister got called by one of these scammers and when she asked for his name & position as identification, he responded (in a thick Middle Eastern accent) "That is none of your business, you wh**e".   Wrong response to the wrong woman, he didn't get a word in edge-wise for the next 20 minutes.

 

Just know that the IRS will NEVER, repeat NEVER contact you via phone.  All IRS correspondence will always be via mail.

 

 

 

**EDIT** - Let me make a clarification for Mr. "Nitpicky without an explanation" down below.  The IRS will never initiate correspondence with you via the phone.  Once you are in the middle of working on a particular situation, phone calls may be made.  However, they will never be the primary way of contact. 

 

 

Never say never...........signed..........Mr. Nitpicky

Gawd, I would love to be called by one of those pukes.  I would pretend to be caught red-handed, and then start running them around the block with false credit card and bank info.  I'll bet I could keep them on the phone long enough to get to the nearest FBI building.

Send me your number,I`ll give it to them