March 12, 2015
By Stephen Ohlemacher
Fake IRS agents (click here) have targeted more than 366,000 people with harassing phone calls demanding payments and threatening jail as part of a huge nationwide tax scam.
By Stephen Ohlemacher
Fake IRS agents (click here) have targeted more than 366,000 people with harassing phone calls demanding payments and threatening jail as part of a huge nationwide tax scam.
More than 3,000 people have fallen for the ruse, Timothy Camus, a
Treasury deputy inspector general for tax administration, said Thursday.
They have been duped out of a total of $15.5 million. People in every
state have been targeted.
"The criminals do not discriminate. They are calling people everywhere,
of all income levels and backgrounds," Camus told the Senate Finance
Committee at a hearing. "The number of complaints we have received about
this scam make it the largest, most pervasive impersonation scam in the
history of our agency."...
These scammers are predators on the Middle Class and Lower Middle Class. There folks are vulnerable because they don't have lawyers to protect them and are being threatened over the phone with immediate arrest knowing where they are at the time of the call. These folks are told if they immediately remit monies over the phone by purchasing prepaid cards they will avert arrest. Many of the victims are women often with children.
The loss to the families are as much as $15,000 and all they can do is report the crime to the police and hope to recuperate the monies. Some others are the elderly and the scammers are overseas.
The possibility these overseas scammers of any kind are terrorists is fairly high. Why isn't the NSA catching these people? This is still yet another failure of the NSA and the idea spying on Americans are beneficial. There are millions of dollars moving out of the USA because of these international criminals.
The federal government needs to stop spying on Americans and start listening to them instead.
These scammers are predators on the Middle Class and Lower Middle Class. There folks are vulnerable because they don't have lawyers to protect them and are being threatened over the phone with immediate arrest knowing where they are at the time of the call. These folks are told if they immediately remit monies over the phone by purchasing prepaid cards they will avert arrest. Many of the victims are women often with children.
The loss to the families are as much as $15,000 and all they can do is report the crime to the police and hope to recuperate the monies. Some others are the elderly and the scammers are overseas.
The possibility these overseas scammers of any kind are terrorists is fairly high. Why isn't the NSA catching these people? This is still yet another failure of the NSA and the idea spying on Americans are beneficial. There are millions of dollars moving out of the USA because of these international criminals.
The federal government needs to stop spying on Americans and start listening to them instead.
