2025068392

SORRY GUYS, I POSTED THE WRONG COMPANY FOR THESE CALLS, CORRECT INFO IS BELOW, THE ABOVE INFO IS FOR CALLS COMING FROM (385) AREA CODE, INFO FOR (202) CALLS BELOW.

sorry about the mistake i track a bunch of these :) for 202 area code calls, info is:

Political Media, Inc. a Republican New Media consulting firm

http://politicalmedia.com/

Capitol Hill Office

Political Media, Inc.
406 First Street, SE
Third Floor
Washington, DC 20003

Phone: (202) 558-6640

CEO is Larry Ward

poltical media inc is the actual company making the calls.

when i first called political media to tell them to quit
calling me they tried to deny knowing anything about what
i was talking about, but after i started reading off all the
information i had, i was put on hold for about 5 minutes and
another man was put on the phone, apologized and said by the end
of the business day i would be removed from the robocall list.
i have not recieved a call since!


cheers,
disco

They called me on saturday. Read out my case that was going to be filed the same day. I didn't understand, as I already was under of power of attorney for installment payment plan. IRS were not aggressively pursue on me. Yet, they say this was from last year, and fraud has been filed with penalties and interest.

Anna Jones is what she claims to be now. When I got ready to make the payment, they insisted it has to be bill of vouchers, and has to be the same day on a Bill of Voucher (reloadit etc).. But, you cannot specify IRS while making the payment - WHY THE F NOT, if you claim to be who you are?

They are real con artist, and I strongly suggest you to be not afraid of - "when they say sheriff will come pick yu up" ..
Tell them back this "FBI is tracking them and if they don't stop this scam and extort money out of innocent people with fear and false allegations, they are in for even bigger [***]"..

How are they getting the phone numbers, and from where? Someone from IRS giving out the numbers? Who is this lady supervisor who has perfect english accent and a perfect con artist.

This info is from a .gov website. Address is below.

http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/fake-irs-collectors-are-calling

The Treasury Inspector General for Taxpayer Administration (TIGTA) warns that crooks posing as Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials are contacting people claiming they owe taxes. The caller demands a prepaid debit card, wire transfer or a credit card number for payment. If the person doesn’t comply, the caller threatens to arrest or deport the target, or take away their driver’s license or business.

Thousands of victims have lost money to these tax scam artists. But there are ways to recognize them and foil their attempts to steal your money.

These scammers often:

- call you. But when the IRS contacts people about unpaid taxes, they do it by postal mail, not by phone
- use common names and fake IRS badge numbers
- know the last four digits of your Social Security number
- demand payment via a prepaid debit card or wire transfer. The IRS doesn’t ask for either of these payment methods, nor will they ask for credit card numbers.
- rig caller ID information to appear as if the IRS really is calling
- send fake emails that look like legitimate IRS correspondence
- make a second call claiming to be the police or department of motor vehicles, rigging the caller ID information  

To protect yourself from imposters who call, claiming to be from the IRS:

- don’t provide any account or other personal information. Hang up the phone.
- never wire money to a person or company you don’t know. Once you wire money, you can’t get it back.
- if you owe - or think you owe - federal taxes, call the IRS at 800-829-1040. IRS workers can help you with your payment questions. You also can visit the IRS website at irs.gov.
- if you’ve already paid your taxes, call and report the incident to TIGTA at 800-366-4484.
forward emails from the IRS to phishing@irs.gov. Don’t open any attachments or click on any links in those emails.
- file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission at ftc.gov/complaint. Include “IRS Telephone Scam" in your complaint.

I received a low-quality voice message first and a clearer one for the second time.  When I called back this number today on Labor Day, a man answered and asked me for a reference number.  Then he read out a statement and said a certified mail was sent in June but nobody could sign other than me and that a note was left on the door.  When I said there was no note and IRS would usually send me notices via regular first class mails, he said probably the note was lost.

I agree with all that this is totally scam-sounding.

This is another scam call, supposedly from the IRS, trying to scare people about unpaid taxes. I must say, they have improved their technique by replacing the IRS agent “Johnny Walker with a heavy Indian accent” with “Julie Smith” who has no accent. DO NOT FALL FOR IT or call back the number they leave on your voice mail.

The best answer I have found is from RexIRS (26 Aug 2014). It can be found on the following site:
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-202-506-8392. Here is a copy of it:

This is a Pakistan or India based IRS scam. Do not fall for it. The IRS does not initiate any legal action via phone.  
Read http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/press/press_tigta-2014-03.htm

As general background information, here are a few things you can do:
1) Report it to TIGTA under http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/contact_report_scam.shtml especially if you have become a victim (lost money, gave personal information etc.). You can also file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission at ftc.gov/complaint (include “IRS Telephone Scam" in your complaint). This way you can also help the government establish specific fraud patterns.

2) Help kill their phone lines. The scammers use Voice over IP lines (e.g. magicJack (Ymax corporation)) to make it seem as if they are calling from the US. This is always against these companys' terms of service and can lead to immediate termination of their contract and blocking of their IP addresses for future attempts to register. Do a reverse look up of their telephone number (e.g. www.whitepages.com) to identify the Voice over IP provider and report it to the company and or law enforcement (local police and/or state attorney general)

3) If you are really annoyed: call or write to your representative in Congress. As these scams happen all over the country maybe this will trigger a reaction and provide US law enforcement agencies with the political backing and the resources they need to work in India and Pakistan together with local authorities (it can happen, read:http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/ex-call-cen ... mmission-320427). A US task force has already been set up in Jamaica to nab scammers there (see http://www.ice.gov/doclib/news/library/reports/cornerstone/cornerstone7-1.pdf). You can use the following template for your letter (more powerful!) or email:

https://800notes.com/forum/ta-a9526ebadc65cf9/ ... 558497927242748

Just recived a Recorded message from (fake) officer Julie Smith with the IRS with CID illegally blocked and location shown as "out of area". Julie tells me there is an issue with my account and to call her at 202-506-8392 before they have to take action.

Recorded message from (fake) officer Julie Smith with the IRS with CID illegally blocked and location shown as "out of area". Julie tells me there is an issue with my account and to call her at 202-506-8392 before they have to take action.

they have change their telephone number to 2022419754

This person keeps calling me and I just need it to stop because it's obviously fake

I called PM and they claim their number has been spoofed and they're trying to take action because they get several calls regarding this issue.

I got the message today.. I called back and the number disconnected. Should have read this before... Thanks everyone for the feedback. What is this world coming to with all these scammers and hackers

Just received a pre-recorded message from Julie Smith of the IRS - I feel bad for people who fall for scams like this.

I got two calls to my house from this number. They left a recorded message saying they were from the IRS and had something that I must immediately respond to or they would be required to take legal action.  I already was contacted by these bottom feeders before, wish they would stop!

I got a fake call from some scamer, stating that they will take legal action, threatening to arrest me if I do not pay amount to the IRS agency. They refused to give information about the situation, namely the why? and how? It was a bogus amount they asked for.

I got a call and voice message from the same phone number.
I barely did let them scammed me. And then I "woke up" on time.

Same call, same message... sounded fake,  Bad recorded message also.  Glad I checked it out here first!

"I have received two calls from this number 202-506-8392 do not know the name of the company or what it is about."

Claimed to be Julia Smith with IRS.

I got the same call twice from "Officer Julie Smith" of the IRS - when I called the number back it sounded like someone from a call center in India. He told me that he had to talk to my husband only. The two recorded messages said that this was a time sensitive message and if we didn't call they would take action on our account. Fortunately we looked the number up on google and discovered that it was a fraud. I live in Orange County, CA and received the call - but the caller ID was garbled and I do not recognize the 202 area code. BIG FAKE - thank goodness we are cautious and don't give out any information.

Same call about "calling ASAP" from a Julie Smith.  Yeah, right.   Reported it to the FTC.