I have received several scam calls from IRS agents. I begin by telling the person calling to F*** themselves. Each time they have returned the greeting in kind and hung up.
Another scam that as been used on me twice is a call from a power company lineman with orders to cut my service. I have used a variation of my IRS greeting with good results. BTW my service was not disconnected.
These scams are always advanced by asking the victim to pay cash at a local wire service station (drug store, etc) to send money to an account number. Once it is gone it is gone forever.
sometimes with cop titles “detective”
Yep - I had some calls from “The IRS” and told them to send me the letter....also got a call from someone saying they were part of a pac fro Trump and wanting a donation - told them since they had my info, to email me and remind me because I never donated anything to someone who initiated and unsolicited phone call - I have the pac address bookmarked because I have donated to it so they have my email, but got no reminder...
i like your style! My guy was an obvious Mid Eastern type. I cannot tell you what i suggested he do to himself, his mother and his goat. No call backs either!
and the police never came to arrest me......
Green Dot cards are popular tools for scammers. They use the same “I’m from ____” routine and tell people to buy a $500 Green Dot card, then give them the number, or bad things will happen.
I was attending an IRS tax conference in Washington DC this past August when the Inspector General for Treasury was presenting on IRS fraud schemes currently going on.
First, he said that they had arrested many people at phone banks in India for making the calls. It was a large organised crime group. They are actively investigating the calls and prosecuting.
Second, he said that he even received the IRS Pay Up Now threatening phone calls at his private home phone!!!
These scammers have gone as far as having a second call to the scam target coming from someone claiming to be from the local police department who just received a call from an IRS Agent who was hung up on.
I was attending an IRS tax conference in Washington DC this past August when the Inspector General for Treasury was presenting on IRS fraud schemes currently going on.
First, he said that they had arrested many people at phone banks in India for making the calls. It was a large organised crime group. They are actively investigating the calls and prosecuting.
Second, he said that he even received the IRS Pay Up Now threatening phone calls at his private home phone!!!
These scammers have gone as far as having a second call to the scam target coming from someone claiming to be from the local police department who just received a call from an IRS Agent who was hung up on.
I bought a pricey piece of equipment off of Ebay years ago. Somebody saying he was a detective said that I had bought stolen property. “It was stolen from the lab at Stanford. It is such a specialized piece of equipment - anyone using that type of equipment would have known it was stolen.” (Hmmm - maybe? But I doubt it.)
“Okay - well, I didn’t. But of course I don’t want to be in trouble for receiving stolen property. You have my phone number somehow, so I’m guessing you must have my address too. Send me a letter on your police department stationary and notarized and I’ll have my lawyer look at it and proceed from there.”
I do wonder how they got my phone number off an ebay sale? Although I AM in a specialized field, and my ebay handle isn’t very cryptic - they could have done a search and found it.
15 years later and I STILL haven’t received that letter!
Love your new tag line, Louis. :-)
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