IRS tax scam phone call DO NOT ANSWER.

[Brian37]

This is not the first year I have gotten a scam call. HANG UP do not give out personal info. 

JUST so you know, the IRS never calls you by phone, much less threatens a lawsuit on the phone. 

IF you see this phone number on your ID, report it.

1-800-829--0433.

[Minimalist]

Actually IRS agents DO call generally to make appointments for an office or home visit.  However, you will always receive at least 4 written notices prior to the case being assigned to an actual human being.

Now it is also true that under the current regime ( republicunt...as always ) they are farming some overdue accounts out to debt collection agencies and what those scumbags do is anyone's guess.  Still, best to assume that anyone who calls you out of the blue is a scammer.

[vulcanlogician]

I generally never pick up for the IRS to begin with

[Brian37]

I generally never pick up for the IRS to begin with

Ok TIBS and Sell B, THAT CUTS IT, how the hell did 45 get an account here? 

I can handle Tibs being a Pats fan, but it we don't need the Troll and Chief as a member here. 

[Nay_Sayer]

I love answering, I've made it a small hobby to waste as much of their time as I can.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I love answering, I've made it a small hobby to waste as much of their time as I can.

Putting them on hold is easy and efficient.

[Brian37]

I love answering, I've made it a small hobby to waste as much of their time as I can.

It was a robo call, automated voice.

[Minimalist]

That's a dead giveaway.  The IRS cannot afford that kind of technology.  

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/irs-compu...d-schickel

I want to say something positive about the IRS Computer System; it is obsolete but still highly functional 56 years after it went on line. No one has ever breached the ADP/IDRS System, simply because it is not on-line. The mainframe master computer went online in 1961 and it is called the Automated Data Processing System (ADP).It contains information on every person, business, trust, partnership and estate from that time to the present, it is a huge database. This is called the Master File. It is like a large file cabinet that has data on every American citizen alive or dead since 1961.

The shit is thus generations older than the kids who try to hack into it.

When I started in 1972 they were so proud of it.  About ten years later one of my buddies was doing an interview with a guy and when he came back he was laughing.  I asked him what happened and he said "that guy runs a computer company, on the way out he asked if he could see what our computers looked like.  I told him to look over the wall into the Taxpayer Service Area and he said ' wow.... this is like going to a museum.'

That would have been in the early 80's.

[Jackalope]

I have in the past received hundreds of these robocalls. I have a policy of letting all unknown / blocked numbers go to voicemail. Spoofed caller-ID is common - a lot of the time, they spoofed a number in my own area code, presumably to trick me into thinking it was someone I know. Fools! No one ever calls me.

When I reviewed the voice mails, they all lacked any kind of detail whatsoever about the supposed matter that needed resolving.

Min is right, you'll get copious amounts of correspondence from them if they have an interest in you.

In general, if anyone is threatening legal action on the phone for any reason, I laugh and hang up. They aren't serious, yet, if at all. Letters from the IRS or bona fide attorneys are another matter altogether. The IRS can really fuck your life up if they have you in their sights.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

That's a dead giveaway.  The IRS cannot afford that kind of technology.  

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/irs-compu...d-schickel

I want to say something positive about the IRS Computer System; it is obsolete but still highly functional 56 years after it went on line. No one has ever breached the ADP/IDRS System, simply because it is not on-line. The mainframe master computer went online in 1961 and it is called the Automated Data Processing System (ADP).It contains information on every person, business, trust, partnership and estate from that time to the present, it is a huge database. This is called the Master File. It is like a large file cabinet that has data on every American citizen alive or dead since 1961.

The shit is thus generations older than the kids who try to hack into it.

When I started in 1972 they were so proud of it.  About ten years later one of my buddies was doing an interview with a guy and when he came back he was laughing.  I asked him what happened and he said "that guy runs a computer company, on the way out he asked if he could see what our computers looked like.  I told him to look over the wall into the Taxpayer Service Area and he said ' wow.... this is like going to a museum.'

That would have been in the early 80's.

"I broke through the Pentagon's firewall on a dare in high school!" Tony Stark.