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  1. “What is with the fake IRS collection?”

    It is simply future democrats from around the world fishing for seniors that can be browbeaten to go down to the store purchase an untraceable Green Dot® Prepaid Card and throw the money down a rat hole.
    On second thought Mike K- Are you sure this isn’t a fund raising call from the DNC 🙂

    https://www.irs.gov/uac/tax-scams-consumer-alerts
    IRS-Impersonation Telephone Scam
    An aggressive and sophisticated phone scam targeting taxpayers, including recent immigrants, has been making the rounds throughout the country. Callers claim to be employees of the IRS, but are not. These con artists can sound convincing when they call. They use fake names and bogus IRS identification badge numbers. They may know a lot about their targets, and they usually alter the caller ID to make it look like the IRS is calling.

    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. Or, victims may be told they have a refund due to try to trick them into sharing private information. If the phone isn’t answered, the scammers often leave an “urgent” callback request.
    Note that the IRS will never: 1) call to demand immediate payment, nor will the agency call about taxes owed without first having mailed you a bill; 2) demand that you pay taxes without giving you the opportunity to question or appeal the amount they say you owe; 3) require you to use a specific payment method for your taxes, such as a prepaid debit card; 4) ask for credit or debit card numbers over the phone; or 5) threaten to bring in local police or other law-enforcement groups to have you arrested for not paying.

  2. I’m seeing various area codes and the messages are recorded.

    I hate low budget scammers.

  3. The mistakes are a feature, not a bug. They don’t want mild interest from basically stupid people who will see through this after a few exchanges. They want only the most stupid who will fall for anything.

    The political jokes that follow from this just write themselves, of course.

  4. A lot fall for it…
    and most machines are compromised in some way
    but thats just me from IT and who writes software to prevent them entry for med records etc..

    heck… the nigerian scams have their own department and people lose 100,000 and more sometimes.

    then there is the man in the UK who likes to scam the scammers… which is getting dangerous.

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