'Tis the season for IRS scamming

[MrScorpio]

Last edited Thu Mar 16, 2017, 09:31 PM - Edit history (1)

I got an AUTOMATED call this morning from someone telling me that the IRA Tax Cheat Office was suing me. I hung up on it. The IRS doesn't call people, I already knew that. The assholes.

If you get a call telling you that the IRS is suing you for cheating on your taxes, follow the instructions from the REAL IRS for these types of scams. https://www.irs.gov/uac/newsroom/irs-warns-of-pervasive-telephone-scam

They've been going around for quite some time. Watch out!

[Lint Head]

1. I love it when they call. I've had several in the past.

I like to waste their time. Speaking gibberish, using a false accent or speech impediment or pretending to be extremely incompetent or just weird. After I have messed with him for awhile I say very nasty things to them. I mean really nasty. I call them criminals and just generally berate them until they hang up. It's actually fun. I have even call him back until they figure me out and hang up on me again.

[2naSalit]

2. A friend of mine

now answers their landline with ..."IRS, can I help you?" They also get the windows scam calls for which they pretend to not understand, they speak languages out of the Caucuses which really freaks out the callers when confronted with that.

Another pair of friends speak numerous languages and one has a strong accent. They also feign language barriers in a variety of languages when they are feeling feisty.

[Yonnie3]

3. I like to put them on the speaker phone, tell them to hang on I've got something on the stove ...

and then do whatever I was doing before they called. I shout out to them at intervals that "I'll be with you in a minute." I had one of the your "Windows computer has a virus" scammers hang on for about 15 minutes before he got upset that I was wasting his time. When he told me this, I wasn't particularly sympathetic. I told him so in much less than polite language. He then got to hear my antique Acme Thunderer drum major whistle as he hung up.

[MrScorpio]

4. You make me so proud

[jmowreader]

5. I had one of the "unpaid parking ticket" scammers once

"Hello sir," said the very heavily India-accented man's voice, "this is the city of (says name of city, but says it very badly). You have many unpaid parking tickets. If you do not pay a fine of $500 to me right now, we will be forced to arrest you."

'Were these tickets issued in downtown (city)?'

"Yes. You received all these tickets in downtown (city)."

(I live downtown. If I want to go to the retail core, I walk.)

'Did I receive them at the parking meters?'

"Yes. You stayed too long at the meters many times."

(There are no parking meters anywhere in town. In the downtown core, there's a paid-parking lot, or you can park free at curbside for two hours during business hours. If for some reason I MUST drive downtown, I park in my company's lot with my parking pass.)

'Well, I don't have any money, so I guess you'll just have to arrest me. Do you need my address?'

"Yes. We need your address."

'Thank you. My address is 5500 North Government Way in (city).'

(That's the address of the county jail.)

"We are coming to arrest you. Please have your things ready."