The IRS is calling again.
Jun 18, 2018 13:45:11 #
We all get spam calls. However these guys have taken it to a whole new level. I'm getting calls 5 to 6 times a day. They tell me if I don't return there call the police will arrest me. As soon as I block one number I get another one. 607 241 5567. 646 396 7504. I erased the other 3. This is extremely annoying. So I *67 my phone and call them back. I tell them you will be in jail soon. They always hang up immediately.
Jun 18, 2018 13:56:58 #
rocket111 wrote:
We all get spam calls. However these guys have taken it to a whole new level. I'm getting calls 5 to 6 times a day. They tell me if I don't return there call the police will arrest me. As soon as I block one number I get another one. 607 241 5567. 646 396 7504. I erased the other 3. This is extremely annoying. So I *67 my phone and call them back. I tell them you will be in jail soon. They always hang up immediately.
This is good reminder that the IRS never puts people in jail! They don't have the authority.
Remember those fun emails about the Nigerian Prince? The last one I got I sent to the FBI - never got another one.....
Jun 18, 2018 14:00:25 #
Somewhere in the web the IRS has a complaint page where one can post the calling number and an explanation of the message. They are investigating.
Jun 18, 2018 14:02:13 #
I had a friend who would talk to them for as long as he could stretch it. Then he would use a different muffled voice and say "trace is done" then tell the caller "You got a wrong number. This is the fraud and bunco department of the Los Angeles FBI office. Thank you for staying on long enough for the call tracer program to finish."
He seldom made it all the way through that before he heard a hang up. He was a cop, not FBI, but a detective sgt with a strange sense of humor and how to kill a bit of time on the phone.
He seldom made it all the way through that before he heard a hang up. He was a cop, not FBI, but a detective sgt with a strange sense of humor and how to kill a bit of time on the phone.
Jun 18, 2018 14:07:24 #
Jun 18, 2018 14:12:16 #
The first call I got I tried that. They asked for my name. I told them it was Fred Flintstone. He then asked me to spell it for him. I did. I could tell he was typing it into the computer. He then put me on hold to speak with a officer. A few minutes later I got a F-you and they hung up.
Jun 18, 2018 14:27:40 #
rocket111 wrote:
The first call I got I tried that. They asked for my name. I told them it was Fred Flintstone. He then asked me to spell it for him. I did. I could tell he was typing it into the computer. He then put me on hold to speak with a officer. A few minutes later I got a F-you and they hung up.
Jun 18, 2018 19:49:08 #
I always turn it into a phone sex call. Ask what they are wearing. What they want you to do and so on til they hang up. They seldom call back.
Jun 18, 2018 23:18:53 #
My favorite thing is to answer but say nothing. When they start talking I say, "It's done! But there's blood everywhere!" Then hang up.
Jun 19, 2018 09:14:28 #
I sometimes go into “radio host” mode, tell them they’re Caller Number Three and they’re on the air, and ask what their question is. Usually ends with a hang up but one guy told me I had a good voice for radio! As a former news guy on radio and TV, I thanked him graciously. 👍
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