The IRS scam reported about several times on TLS is continuing, and residents are urged to be vigilant following a recent incident involving a Yungerman from Monsey.
The Monsey Yungerman received a phone call yesterday from scammers posing as the IRS, who sais he owes them $2,500, News Breakers reports.
After being threatened with arrest and prison time, the Yungerman panicked and told his wife a few broken words about him being in trouble with the IRS, and ran out of the house.
After unsuccessfully trying to reach him for two hours, she phoned Chaverim, but nobody was able to reach him.
“Chaveirim were scared he might be kidnapped and his wife was sure he’s dead,” says a source familiar to the incident. “When a few members came to her home to try to calm her down, she didn’t let them talk, she was crying and screaming that she knows they came to tell her that he was found dead.”
A short time later, Chaveirim had Ramapo Police ping the phone, which was found it in a CVS pharmacy.
Chaveirim rushed down to the pharmacy and found him there, still on the phone with the scammers. He had just completed his transaction of sending $2,500 of borrowed money to the scammers.
“He said he couldn’t answer other calls because they were threatening him with the worst things,” the source said.
Earlier this month, the IRS released several tips on identifying such scams.
[TLS-H.B./News Breakers]
The Irs sends out notices! They never ever will call you and tell you that they owe you money!
just state clearly that you know the irs doesnt work that way, so please try to scam someone else…and hang up…IRS doesnt threaten you with crazy things, without sending out a notice, and with no way of proving who they are…but nebach on that wife!
My heart goes out to the monsey wife . Most of the scammers are from India. (and no I am not an antisemit) Also debt collectors, who work in collection offices are also from India. So now there are not to many companies you can trust anymore.
Three years ago I was in financial distress and I couldn’t pay my credit card bills…the company threatened to take away all my assets… I thought it was a scam….well guess what it wasn’t a scam …the credit card company wiped out my whole bank account and my savings.
So who can you trust?
My bank told me that if there are any phone calls or threatening letters from the mail or emails that so too good to be true or to easy to make money – show them to the bank and the police department they will do the job of research to see if they are true.
and NEVER SEND ANY MONEY WITH WESTERN UNION. there is no way to track the money.
I received a call couple of weeks ago. A guy called me from windows operating system. He claimed he was calling from washington state and that someone downloaded inappropriate stuff using my IP address and unless I correct it I can get arrested. At first I panicked and said OK how do I correct it. he then tells me to click something on my computer and type in a new code. At that point I got suspicious and said I’ll call you back. It turns out his number was canadain not washington state. I further researched and concluded that it was a common scam to take control of your computer. The guy called me back about 100 times that day. He was a real nudge. Also odd for a legit guy
Just answer suspicious area codes; “FBI Consumer Fraud Unit, your name please”.
#1 CVS can be held liable for the money they are trained before completing a wire transfer to inquire and see if the person doing it is in distress #2 people shouldnt be so gullible the IRS or any Government agency doesnt threaten people over the phone
They call people who have tax liens
Known fraud #’s start with 240 area code
like 240-215-4316
if anyone gets a call like that, even a legit sounding one with a badge number and everything ITS A SCAM
any accented guy- SCAMMMM
they called me yesterday from 202 4703382 ….
they called me today from 240-949-7042
How come no one called the police?? Wouldn’t that be the first line of defense, to get everyone in motion, then call the other services..If that had been something worse, you would have wasted valuable time with the delay in LPD dispatch
I got two phone calls asking for my medical history, which is none of his beeswax.
I got the same call saying I owed 2,700 dollars and was on the phone with them for 20 min going back and forth with them proving that the IRS didn’t fund this phone call I decided to tell them to call me back in an hour I spoke to two tax lawyers to confirm it was fraud they start doing this around the end of the summer time right after the tax season so when they called me back I told them that I have the police and the FBI on the line with me and they hung up the phone right after that not a phone call later
I got the same phone call from someone claiming to be from PSE&G.
same happened to me a month ago. I kept the scammer on the phone until police arrived. They heard him threaten to kill me and my family. The police then took over and spoke to him for 15 minutes. There is not much they were able to do as he was calling from another country.
I also got a call from the 202 # above. They keep calling and telling my wife they need ny cell phone number and there is a complaint against me.
My wife said she figured the IRS wouldn’t outsource their work to India
another scam is iyogi support – I don’t know how but when contacting technical support for my computer their number comes up under Norton support and boy do they convince you to pay them a lot of money to solve the problem Norton themselves will do for free. so if you get into technical glitch and you contact support and iyogi picks up hang up on them. I disputed it on my credit card.
we have caller ID–if I don’t recognize the number I don’t answer–if it is someone who needs to talk to you they will leave a message–scammers don’t leave messages
I got a call 2 days ago allegedly from the Lakewood Police Department and on caller ID the # 732-363-0200 showed as this is the # for the LPD. The gentleman called my cell# and after confirming my name with a Spanish accent he said the LPD has a legal warrant against me. I thought it was my wife etc. I got scared and then he told me that the IRS has been attempting to contact me with regards to a claim against me.
He threatened that I will be arrested if I don’t straighten it out with the IRS. He gave me a tel.# to call 202-241-7013for the IRS and I should ask for Agent Brian Payse.
I called that # and the individual picking up the phone introduced himself as Agent Watson # 99966, when I asked for Brian Payse, he said it was him. Very poorly done, a real SCAMM, not even good for a movie.