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| Subject: Idiotic conformists: Thousands of scared serfs fall for IRS phone scam Thu Mar 20, 2014 9:17 pm | |
| Thousands of people have lost more than $1 million to scammers who threatened them with arrest, deportation, and the loss of business or driver's licenses if they do not make payments either through credit cards or wire transfer
A government watchdog says that fake IRS agents have targeted more than 20,000 people in the largest phone scam in the history of the U.S.
Thousands of victims have lost over $1 million to fake IRS agents claiming that people owe more taxes, according to the IRS inspector general. The scammers call up taxpayers demanding that they make payments through prepaid credit cards or wire transfer, threatening arrest, deportation, and loss of business or driver’s licenses if those they scam do not comply.
IRS inspector general J. Russell George says people have been targeted in almost every state, according to the Associated Press.
http://time.com/32651/irs-phone-scam-is-the-largest-ever/ |
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