They sounded very authentic, especially those heavy words about IRS and Federal Laws made me nervous. Apparently today was the last date, lol, they said I can settle this outside the court or inside the court.  If I loose at the court I will be arrested and deported since I am an foreign national. This got me really nervous.

He had an Indian accent, so looked up in the internet and found this page. I was almost going to send them 8 grand through Kroger!!!

Thanks guys. You saved my day!

Same thing happened to me yesterday.  First call was from a woman with a Chinese accent.  Sounded real, since they didn't ask for anything at first.  Just informing me that I was in default and a warrant would be issued for my arrest.  When I called back later for more information, I got someone who identified himself as Garry Stevens.

They are trying to get you to bring cash to a specific IRS office at a specific time.  Evidently, if you do this, you will be accosted by someone before you enter the office who will know that you are carrying significant amounts of cash.  I was told this by an IRS official after I checked up on it.

This is a really pernicious scam.

I experienced the same thing. It appears there several perps working this scam from the same number. A voice - sounding like an older person left me a voice mail with the name Will Johnson. My call back was answered on the first ring by Garry Stevens. He represented his address to be 77 K street NE, Washington DC20002. I got the same speech as John... I think they are using a Magic Jack number with a DC area code.

Some a-hole with a thick foreign accent called, claiming to be an IRS Auditor, and claimed I had apparently ignored a legal notice from the IRS. The said legal notice supposedly should have been answered within 60 days. Since I didn't respond (and they claim to have proof of delivery signature) within that time frame, he said an arrest warrant would be issued unless I turned myself to the local police within the next sixty minutes. I was given a specific warrant id. If I didn't turn myself in, I was going to be summoned to court "tomorrow morning". All of it with an air of authority that would scare the bazookas out of an uninformed person.

Well, I was fairly certain, within a few minutes, this was fraud. Nevertheless I called the IRS and verified that no such legal notice was sent to me. Also contacted the police department and lodged a complaint at the www.tigta.gov web site.

Pity that some low life forms would create such elaborate scams and waste people's time.

Report the calls to the real IRS here:

IRS:   http://www.irs.gov/

http://www.irs.gov/uac/Report-Phishing
phishing@irs.gov
http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/

http://www.irs.gov/uac/Tax-Scams-Consumer-Alerts
http://800notes.com/forum/ta-8c2f64bf2b91fa5/irs-warns-of-telephone-scam

?If you owe federal taxes, or think you might owe taxes, hang up and call the IRS at 800-829-1040. IRS workers can help you with your payment questions.
?If you don?t owe taxes, call and report the incident to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration at 800-366-4484.
?You can also file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission at FTC.gov. Add "IRS Telephone Scam" to the comments in your complaint.

Company is impersonating Internal Revenue Services.

DO NOT ANSWER.

Easy to know it's a scan as they answer the call on first few rings & directly get an operator. I have never experienced this with IRS or any government agency - usually it's a 30 minute wait.