Guy Toying WIth IRS Scammers

[Tennesseer]

Enjoyable video.

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

That was freaking awesome.  I want to be that guy's friend.  

They called me yesterday.  I didn't pick up but listened as they started leaving a voicemail.  I picked up then yelling into the phone that I was standing at the door waiting for the police, where are the police?, are they on their way?  tell them I'm at the back door waiting...  Sadly, it was only a recording.  DH was home and admonished me for messing with them, but, hey, they called me...

[ken a.k.a OMK]

The last time I had a live scammer I answered the phone "state police". He continued on and I repeated "state police how can I help you?. Next I said "if this is an emergency hang up and call 911." He thanked me and hung up. 

[zibazinski]

Why can't they stop this ?

[mollyanna58]

Sept 29, 2016 18:37:07 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

Why can't they stop this ?

Because many of the calls originate from out of the country, with faked US area codes.

I have gotten 4 or 5 identical calls in the past two week; recordings telling me I will be brought up before the court magistrate if I don't call them back.  They end with "Hope to here from you soon" which I find incongruous.  They all come from different numbers.  I have been forwarding them to [e-mail].

[zibazinski]

You can forward phone numbers?

[ken a.k.a OMK]

I've gotten calls where caller ID shows my number. I'm calling myself. 

[zibazinski]

That's kinda freaky. Like the horror movies when the killer on the line is in your house!!

[mollyanna58]

Sept 29, 2016 19:35:58 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

You can forward phone numbers?

I can send the voice mails from my phone. 

[Tennesseer]

Sept 29, 2016 21:01:20 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

That's kinda freaky. Like the horror movies when the killer on the line is in your house!!

I was getting the same type calls as Ken. When my phone rings and if my TV is one, the name of the person calling and phone number are displayed. My land line phone also displays name and caller too..

What was happening was originally the scamner was calling me from a string of like numbers (for example 654-4321, 654-4322, 654-4323, 654-4324,:etc) with a Knoville, TN area code. Then the scammer started using my area code. Using the example of numbers I used above, one of those numbers, and now using my area code, rang up my phone. And because there was a legitimate name associated with my phone number, my name appeared.

Fortunately, the scammer has moved on.

[NoNamePerson]

Tell the IRS scammers they are in luck because you just received a call saying you won 2.5 million and a new car. Tell them you are giving the prize scammers permission to send money you won to them (IRS).

I did receive voice mail about winnings and day later the IRS call. I was soooooo tempted to do this but I refrained.  

 

[Tennesseer]

I am pretty sure another call center will shortly spring up to continue to scam Americans.  But this is a start.

Fake call centers in India scam Americans of millions

The Indian police have managed to uncover a huge tax scam where a large number of Americans were duped of millions of dollars by people posing as tax authorities and asking for the payment of unpaid taxes. Seventy people have been arrested as of Thursday, and hundreds questioned in relation with the fraud, a Mumbai police officer said.

The scam ran for almost a year, the Indian police told the Associated Press (AP). Fake call centers were used to voice mail messages to U.S. nationals, telling them to call back regarding the back taxes they owed. When any of these people did call back, the scammers would manage to take out thousands of dollars from them to “settle” the tax cases.

“They would make threatening calls to honest taxpayers in the U.S., ask them to deposit money through pre-paid cards,” Param Bir Singh, the police chief of Thane, a Mumbai suburb, told Indian news network NDTV.

According to Mumbai police officer Parag Marere, the elaborate plan brought in more than $150,000 a day — possibly amounting to almost $55 million in the one year the scam ran.

“We are questioning those who were involved in the fraud, including those posing as tax investigators,” Marere said, according to the AP.

Of the 600 or more people being questioned, many are expected to face charges for running the fake call centers, the police said. They include alleged leaders of the scam, as well as those associated with other tasks within the fraudulent enterprise that ran out of several stories in a Mumbai office building.


Fake call centers in India scam Americans of millions