IRS don't call peasants. We call them, and get put on hold for 40 minutes or so.
Posted on 07/17/2019 5:28:58 PM PDT by Leaning Right
Edited on 07/17/2019 5:55:03 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
String the MFers up. Better yet: skin them alive and drop them in salt.
That's the current fraud going around with Social Security.
IRS don't call peasants. We call them, and get put on hold for 40 minutes or so.
It’s not a new scam trick, though. I have read about IRS scams even since years ago. I always speak to my elderly parents about these scams, and I’m glad they know how to deal with these scammers now. Recently, they received several calls from 760-810-4313. They didn’t pick up the phone, which is good. I Googled up the number and found some reports have been filed since last year about those scams at https://www.whycall.me/760-810-4313.html.
I don’t answer calls not in my contacts - if it’s important and I miss it, I’ll have a message waiting.
Plus, ATT has a security app that catches and tags a lot as potential scams/telemarketers.
But most PSAs are run in the middle of the night when ad rates are lower, leaving the more profitable time slots (when more people are watching/listening) open for paying customers.
The employee at WU flat out refused to complete the transaction. He explained what was happening. Even through Dad’s loud protests, he wouldn’t relent and sent my frustrated parents home. They called me and I agreed with the attendant. I suggested they call their granddaughter on her cell phone to confirm. Of course she answered and confirmed she was home and safe.
Good for your parents. Quick thinking.
That happened to me once. I got an email from an on-line acquaintance (not a legitimate friend or relative) with the same sad tale.
I ignored it.
Ah ha! I was wondering about that phrase. There are loads of videos on YouBoob in which people call the Indian call center scammers and expose their scams, waste their time, and sometimes destroy their computers. I have heard them call the scammers that. It fits them well.
Today if it was the FBI even more reason to clam up.
I told him the I.R.S. does not begin collecting overdue taxes by telephone, and would not arrest his mother for his tax debt, nor did the I.R.S. require payment by pre-paid credit cards. He seemed to calm down and take in the logic of what I was saying, but then he told me he had to go and get the "green cards" before his mother got arrested.
Many years ago I had a client who got a Nigeria scam letter, although they had updated it to claim the guy was from South Africa. He was convinced it was real, but had the good sense to run it by me. I actually managed to get an email from the South African government saying they had never heard of the guy. If I hadn’t gotten that, I think my client would have sent them money.
Can you imagine how impossibly hard it must be for a legitimate Nigerian businessman to do anything over the internet.
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