Posted on 08/21/2016 3:27:23 PM PDT by Innovative
They are extremely persistent and claiming to be the IRS and threatening to throw you in jail and all kinds of things,” the 76-year-old Torrance resident said. “They try to make it sound official.”
In the past month, the IRS and several South Bay police agencies have issued public warnings about the IRS scam and similar cons perpetrated by thieves on the telephone.
“You are never going to get a call from the IRS demanding an immediate tax payment,” IRS spokesman Raphael Tulino said. “A lot of folks will hear it’s the IRS and act out of panic or dismay, and provide what the scammer wants. The normal correspondence to the taxpayer is a letter in the mail. It’s not a random threatening phone call.”
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The “real” best thing is to always see “who” is calling on the display on your phone before you answer. We’re about to give up our wireline phone because you have to pay AT&T to block calls or you have to buy a piece of equipment to do it. On smart phones you can simply block them yourself. I have more than 100 in my current iPhone. And any call that comes in with no caller ID goes away immediately. But the worst part of it is AT&T gladly gives these telemarketers the lines they use to assault us. Neat trick, give out the lines, then charge your other customers a monthly fee to stop the calls. AT&T is the biggest $hit company in the world!
Some genius will figure it out. Hope it’s soon.
My land line is kept on mute. I never answer it. Most are robocalls but one of those IRS fakers actually left a voicemail.
Some people answer the phone without a caller caller ID displayed or with a caller ID not on their pass-through white list?
Why would anyone do that?
The Chinese do the Tax scam in a ton of countries and they ask for iTunes cards
If you want to answer the phone ,make sure you have a very loud sports whistle ,ouch
I got 3 last week; one of them actually made me laugh; the person was screaming at me .. “... they’re lying to you, they’re lying to you ...”
You’re right .. JUST HANG UP ..!!!!
The bar moves but no sound. I have my java running and all.
We get these a couple of times a week. We never pick up. Regrettably they are always robocalls. I’m waiting for one of these turds to be a human so I can pick it up and tell them to come and take what they want. If they think it’s worth their life.
I also think it would be humorous if we did a coordinated FReep calling these numbers back several hundred times an hour for a couple of days..
I have no idea
Been getting these bogus call for several years. Still waiting for the public warning from the Torrance PD.
Should be common sense if you ask me. Never do business over the phone unless I initiate it by placing the call.
My husband plays with them. I just don’t have the time or inclination, so I let him answer the phone.
Best come back, Eff lois Lerner!
Then hang up.
Count me in.
These fools have called me many times over the last 3 or 4 years. We let the answering machine screen calls for us, so we have never answered. Always a foreign accented voice, and sometimes they even leave a non-US call back number. I know there are people caught by this, and I don’t want to tar them, but for goodness sakes, THINK, people!
IRS even has a warning about this on their website:
I won’t even do banking business over the phone here; and I know all the LADIES (it’s capitalized because they are real ladies) at my bank (only 1100 people in our town).
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