Robert Matthews/Chris Evans called me 06MAY14 around 11am. He called my phone twice, but I did not answer the call. I then received an email notification from my job, yes this scammer called my job!, that this Chris Evans called from the US Treasury of legal affairs & stated that there is a legal enforcement action against me. I finally called this idiot who had an Indian accent & he stated that in 2009 I filed fraudulent taxes & I owe money & that they have been sending me notification letters since 2009. This creep knew my address and last 4 digits of my social and apparently my job #. He kept saying that detectives and the police were coming to my house to arrest me and hold me in jail for 60 days without bond and that I need to get my taxes together & a lawyer. The piece of crap idiot then said my accounts and passport would be frozen & all my assets and if I hang up I will be arrested immediately. Logically I knew this was wrong because I have received a refund every year in taxes & if I owed any money since 2009 it could have been garnished many years ago. But this was in the morning and I was still not completely awake & the fact that this dummy knew some of my personal information kind of threw me off. I put him on speaker phone so my mother could hear him & when I asked this jerk how much I owe he wouldn't tell me initially, only after 15-20 minutes into the call did he finally say $1500 & to resolve it he would need to transfer me to another person(which was him(the same guy)) to try to convince the "other guy" to help me resolve the issue with payment. I was talking to my mother at the same time he was telling me this & he got even more extreme with his rudeness with me & yelled at me asking me who am I talking to & I told him, my mother, & he then said I could not tell her because it was illegal under some penal code he started to read, which I now know of course was bogus. My mother then told me to hang up as she said it was not a valid call. I filed the complaint with the IRS and they did in fact confirm it was a scam as they would never attempt that type of interaction. I also reported them to my local police department & also made my job aware of this scam. They did not get any money from me and because of this incident ruining my whole morning, I decided to call them back & give them a piece of my mind, of course they hang up on me now.
Robert Matthews/Chris Evans called me 06MAY14 around 11am. He called my phone twice, but I did not answer the call. I then received an email notification from my job, yes this scammer called my job!, that this Chris Evans called from the US Treasury of legal affairs & stated that there is a legal enforcement action against me. I finally called this idiot who had an Indian accent & he stated that in 2009 I filed fraudulent taxes & I owe money & that they have been sending me notification letters since 2009. This creep knew my address and last 4 digits of my social and apparently my job #. He kept saying that detectives and the police were coming to my house to arrest me and hold me in jail for 60 days without bond and that I need to get my taxes together & a lawyer. The piece of crap idiot then said my accounts and passport would be frozen & all my assets and if I hang up I will be arrested immediately. Logically I knew this was wrong because I have received a refund every year in taxes & if I owed any money since 2009 it could have been garnished many years ago. But this was in the morning and I was still not completely awake & the fact that this dummy knew some of my personal information kind of threw me off. I put him on speaker phone so my mother could hear him & when I asked this jerk how much I owe he wouldn't tell me initially, only after 15-20 minutes into the call did he finally say $1500 & to resolve it he would need to transfer me to another person(which was him(the same guy)) to try to convince the "other guy" to help me resolve the issue with payment. I was talking to my mother at the same time he was telling me this & he got even more extreme with his rudeness with me & yelled at me asking me who am I talking to & I told him, my mother, & he then said I could not tell her because it was illegal under some penal code he started to read, which I now know of course was bogus. My mother then told me to hang up as she said it was not a valid call. I filed the complaint with the IRS and they did in fact confirm it was a scam as they would never attempt that type of interaction. I also reported them to my local police department & also made my job aware of this scam. They did not get any money from me and because of this incident ruining my whole morning, I decided to call them back & give them a piece of my mind, of course they hang up on me now.
Caller: Robert Mathews
Company: Us Treasurydept of legal affairs