stupid guys wasted people's time

same happend to me also this morning,they wasted my time what kind of threats these all?

this was happend to me today,same fbi ,arrest,who are doing this all

same call came to today very reduclusr issue this all

Falsely claiming to be an attorney Austin Reed of Federal Crimes Enforcement agency at 32 West Bank Street. New York, NY. Trying to scare victim in order to extort money.

I'm Indian. These guys tried to scam me over the phone too. I could tell it was absolute BS soon after it all started. I played a long then started clowning and making fun of them in Hindi, recorded them (evidence) confessing that they are scammers who do it "because everyone needs money". He claimed to be in Bombay. Then I kept calling them and they kept cursing at me, hanging up, etc. Planning to file an official report and upload the recordings, since among everything else, they are impersonating police officers. FYI They hate being exposed and lectured in Hindi. I would think recording (if legal?), reporting them, and calling to express yourself to them would be the right thing to do. I'm not making suggestions here but for all the stress they initially caused me, it felt good to be able to call back and reciprocate the feeling. Its good to know you can call them and have a little fun LOL

I got the call from same number. You know what i did? I got their call back number and kept calling them so they won't able to call anyone in mean while. Please do it same thing to safe someone!!!!!!!!This is request...............

They are scammers

funky call

Called me on Saturday stated that I would be arrested if I didn't contact a Thomas O'brian The persons name that called me was Alex Watson. When I called the number I was told that this was the Federal Crime Investigation at 21 Washington Street in New York.

even i got the call from same person and he said his name is Roger Gibson had a heavy Indian accent , and that he is a Federal Officer and My husband has IRS charges of $2387 if i'll not pay within 45 minutes then Police is going to come and arrest Me and My husband. When I look for this number I came to know that is fake call. I don't know should I call police?

WASHINGTON ? The Internal Revenue Service today warned consumers about a sophisticated phone scam targeting taxpayers, including recent immigrants, throughout the country.

Victims are told they owe money to the IRS and it must be paid promptly through a pre-loaded debit card or wire transfer. If the victim refuses to cooperate, they are then threatened with arrest, deportation or suspension of a business or driver?s license. In many cases, the caller becomes hostile and insulting.

?This scam has hit taxpayers in nearly every state in the country.  We want to educate taxpayers so they can help protect themselves.  Rest assured, we do not and will not ask for credit card numbers over the phone, nor request a pre-paid debit card or wire transfer,? says IRS Acting Commissioner Danny Werfel. ?If someone unexpectedly calls claiming to be from the IRS and threatens police arrest, deportation or license revocation if you don?t pay immediately, that is a sign that it really isn?t the IRS calling.? Werfel noted that the first IRS contact with taxpayers on a tax issue is likely to occur via mail
Other characteristics of this scam include:
Scammers use fake names and IRS badge numbers. They generally use common names and surnames to identify themselves.
Scammers may be able to recite the last four digits of a victim?s Social Security Number.
Scammers spoof the IRS toll-free number on caller ID to make it appear that it?s the IRS calling.
Scammers sometimes send bogus IRS emails to some victims to support their bogus calls.
Victims hear background noise of other calls being conducted to mimic a call site.
After threatening victims with jail time or driver?s license revocation, scammers hang up and others soon call back pretending to be from the local police or DMV, and the caller ID supports their claim.
If you get a phone call from someone claiming to be from the IRS, here?s what you should do:
If you know you owe taxes or you think you might owe taxes, call the IRS at 1.800.829.1040. The IRS employees at that line can help you with a payment issue ? if there really is such an issue.
If you know you don?t owe taxes or have no reason to think that you owe any taxes (for example, you?ve never received a bill or the caller made some bogus threats as described above), then call and report the incident to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration at 1.800.366.4484.
If you?ve been targeted by this scam, you should also contact the Federal Trade Commission and use their ?FTC Complaint Assistant? at FTC.gov.  Please add "IRS Telephone Scam" to the comments of your complaint.
Taxpayers should be aware that there are other unrelated scams (such as a lottery sweepstakes) and solicitations (such as debt relief) that fraudulently claim to be from the IRS.
The IRS encourages taxpayers to be vigilant against phone and email scams that use the IRS as a lure. The IRS does not initiate contact with taxpayers by email to request personal or financial information.  This includes any type of electronic communication, such as text messages and social media channels. The IRS also does not ask for PINs, passwords or similar confidential access information for credit card, bank or other financial accounts. Recipients should not open any attachments or click on any links contained in the message. Instead, forward the e-mail to phishing@irs.gov.

More information on how to report phishing scams involving the IRS is available on the genuine IRS website, IRS.gov.

http://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/IRS-Warns-of-Pervasive-Telephone-Scam

Got a call yesterday from the same number by somebody named Roger Gibson with heavy accent.  He claimed that he was a Federal Officer from Federal Crime Dept.

We have received a call from 646-751-0032 and left message to call 646-766-0032. The message said that we have some problems with many police officers and they have been complaining about it. In any case we should call 646-766-0032. When called this morning, they said (Rex Coffin) that since we are foreigners (not right), we should have filed form 61 and that IRS is after us. They wanted us to admit that we are guilty and gave us 45 minutes. I don't know what would be their next move

The exact same thing happened and I live in Texas.  My mother fell for it because they said my sister was in jail.  She loaded almost a grand in prepaid card and they took it.  Please, everyone be careful.

The police here said they cannot do anything about it.

Its a freakibg scam I got the samephone cqall and everyone got the same message and 3 charges

I received a phone call yesterday from someone who claims to be a FBI Agent ! Threatening to arrest me for not paying my tax in 2010 and that I have to pay $2K right way using a card in 7 Eleven ! My guess is they target Indian population that uses Vonage. The call I received was from 847-874-2000 and 646-766-0032. You may receive calls from different number though.

?#?Watchout? ?#?Scam? ?#?Vonage?

I understood it's a scam but I did talk to him in such a way it encourages him. When he started speaking rudely, I lost my temper. Otherwise, it would have been fun to keep talking for a bit, giving him hope that I would pay the money.

If you have the time and bored, talk to him in such a way you paint honey in his tongue, only for him to realize it taste like s*** !

Today, I called them back multiple times from public numbers and harassed them back ... and sent them a s*** load of s*** on their way !  Early Christmas s*** from Santa for them :-)

Hey guys my mom got a call from this do***ebag with an indian accent saying the same crap! So I decided to call him back as Apu from the simpson and bother him to.

I have received about 50 calls from this SOBs in one day, they introduce themselves as Crime division of FBI. is there something being done about these MFrs?

Sorry. Here is an updated link and the news story in its entirety:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/phantom-debt-co ... ory?id=16512428

Hundreds of thousands of cash-strapped Americans have been targeted by abusive debt collectors operating out of overseas call centers suspected of links to organized crime in India, law enforcement officials told ABC News.

The calls are part of a massive scam, one that appears to target struggling Americans -- especially those who have gone online to apply for payday loans. Armed with personal information from those pilfered applications, the threatening callers, who claim to be debt collectors poised to initiate legal action, have managed to pry loose millions of dollars from their victims -- even when the victims never owed money in the first place.

"This is what we call a phantom debt collection scam," said Jon Leibowitz, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. "It's a very pernicious and innovative new fraud."

Working through call centers in India, the commission estimates that the criminals have dialed at least 2.5 million calls, persuading already cash-strapped victims to send them more than $5 million. Some have reported receiving dozens of calls per hour. They are victims like Cindy Gervais, of New Orleans, who went online for a quick loan when her husband's car was hit by a driver who didn't have insurance.

Even though she paid the loan off, the so-called "phantom" debt collectors with Indian accents began calling to say she still owed money.

"He more or less told me that if I didn't pay, they were going to have someone on my doorstep to arrest me," she told ABC News. "And that they were going to contact my place of business, and tell them what kind of person I am."

At first, she said she resisted. Then the calls became more frequent, and started to ring on her cell phone, and at the grocery distribution company where she had worked for 27 years.

"I was more or less in panic mode because he told me there would be someone before noon at my place of business to arrest me and take me to jail," she said tearfully. "So I agreed to pay him."

After receiving scores of complaints, investigators with the FTC said they began tracking the calls, and following the payments. They alleged the payments led them to a California company run by an Indian-American named Kirit Patel, and that such scams would not be possible without American front men.

"I would say that all roads of this scam, or many of the roads of this scam, lead back to Mr. Patel," said the FTC's Leibowitz.

ABC News tracked Patel for weeks, from the suburbs of San Francisco to Austin, Texas.

Patel refused to talk. But his lawyer, Mark Ellis, said he believes it is far too early to pass judgment on his client. Ellis, a Sacramento-based attorney, told ABC News that Patel was hired for a nominal fee to set up an American shell company, and had no idea what the call centers in India were doing.

"I can tell you, he was as snookered by the people in India as anybody," Ellis said. "He's a 69-year-old man who is nearing his retirement who thought all he had to do was set up some corporations and everything was on the up and up. He's completely dismayed that he has become the lightning rod of this entire problem."

A close friend of Patel's also defended him in a brief interview at his home, saying Patel was not trying to defraud anyone -- he was just an unwitting, bit player in a larger scheme.

Can you please resend the address to abc news. Part of it chopped off.
I got a message from this number as well. He called himself Adam Thompson with such a heavy Indian accent that I had a hard time understanding him.  He kept of telling me that I had a federal complaint and that I will be snatched from my home or business unless I call him. The odd thing was that he said it was an identity complaint and that it was "unbailable", that's not even a word in English.  I hope they capture this idiot who thinks he's got an easy way to scare people and make money.

This is a criminal extortion scam operating out of India. They are making the calls utilizing VOIP and the names of legitimate firms to make it appear the calls are originating from within the US. There is NO "company" or "debt" and you will NOT be arrested. They are harvesting and/or buying consumers' personal identifying information and you need to do whatever you can to protect yourself. This includes: Notifying the FTC: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/, placing fraud alerts with all three credit bureaus, notifying your bank and employer and letting these criminals know you are aware they are attempting to extort money for a non-existent debt and have alerted the authorities.

ABC News released an investigative report on this scam:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/phantom-debt-co ... ory?id=16512428

Got a call at work from this number @10:30AM today. He said his name was Roger Gibson, had a heavy accent, and that he was a Federal Officer and he was calling because I had 3 federal charges. He said I should have received a letter from the IRS(for my "fraud" charge) back in June. He then said that the police are watching me and that I will be arrested at work. I looked up this number and got no results. However, when I looked up Roger Gibson I got a lot of different numbers with the same M.O. and same name. I will be contacting the police later today.

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