Posted on 03/18/2015 1:49:11 PM PDT by kiryandil
'Wait you're pregnant? I'm sorry, this is a scam': Con artist cold-caller has attack of guilt when victim reveals she's expecting
A con artist who told woman she was being convicted of tax fraud seemingly had an attack of guilt after finding out she was pregnant.
Sarah Carr, who owns three event venue businesses in Denver, Colorado, told 9News that she received a voicemail on her cell phone from a man who claimed to be from the IRS.
Ms Carr said she she rang the number back and broke down in tears at the news at 8am on Tuesday morning.
The man told her there was a lien on one of her properties and Ms Carr said he was believable as he knew so many personal and private details about her business and finances.
'I just start crying,' Carr told KUSA.
'I said, 'I'm nine months pregnant...I don't know what I'm going to do.'
'And then he says, 'Wait, wait, wait, wait, you're pregnant?' and I said, 'Yes!' And he goes, 'I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry, this is a scam. You're okay, we're scamming you.
'We were just trying to get money out of you. Please stop crying,'' Carr said.
She said the man then hung up and ended the call.
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Yeah. I think before the IRS would call you they would send some very scary threatening letters.
And if it actually was the IRS, they’d show not a shred of mercy
We got one of those calls. Mr. Mercat wrote down the number and will be reporting it to the local DA.
If it was the actual IRS, they would have said they’d take the baby as a down payment.
You know you are heartless when scammers have more empathy than you.
I’ll bet one scammer - one with a small heart of gold - is out of work tonight...
Yeah, they sent me a lien letter.
I called them back (waited for 53 minutes on hold), and told them that their junk computer program was sending me incorrect letters again.
thefactor FTTW!
If they insist, tell them you will hang up and call their office in the phone listings.
Hey, they're just upholding the law.
Well, except for when it comes to Lois Lerner. And John Koskinen. And the White House. And etc., etc., etc.
But they're not peasants, OK?
That's EXACTLY the way to do it.
“If you know you don’t owe taxes, report the incident to the Treasury inspector general for tax administration, at 1-800-366-4484, or online at www.tigta.gov .”
There's little doubt about that. He's got more ethics than most CONgresscritters, I'll say that much. :)
You are more correct than you think. My mom had a client (a low income, recently divorced veteran) who owed past taxes and asked the IRS agent who was in her face about what they would confiscate, “what do you want, my firstborn?”. The IRS agent just said, “We are entitled to take anything we can to cover what you owe.”
We got a call like that last year at my business from a woman with a heavy Indian accent claiming she was from the IRS. I asked my receptionist to tell her that I have a big male donkey waiting. The scam lady was so stunned she had to ask for a confirmation and she got it. The IRS always sends a letter, never calls on the phone.
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