I got this from another list and thought others should see it as well.
I want to urge all of you not to fall for a particularly vicious and despicable
phone scam that seems to be going on now and that may be targeted toward the
elderly. I have experienced this myself and, although i knew it was a scam, I
still found it a little frightening and it made me very angry. You get a phone
call informing you that you are being sued by the IRS and must take immediate
action to avoid being arrested or having legal actions taken against you. This
is a scam. Don't fall for it! The IRS would not make such calls. Information to
taxpayers would be mailed and would not involve threats. I received three
recorded phone calls on my iPhone. the message informed me that I was being
sued by the IRS and that this was my final warning. i was further told to call
a number at "our department" to get the details of the suit against me. Each
time the number to call was different. I knew this was a scam so i ignored the
calls and they stopped. but I hear from news reports that people are falling
for this and sending money to stop the legal action. People are naturally
scared when they get threatening calls supposed to be from the government so
they fall for this trick. don't be a victim of this. I suspect that most of you
are smart enough not to be tricked by these calls but please share this
information with friends or family members who you think might be vulnerable
to this scam. I wasn't sure who to report the calls to so I did nothing but I
wish now I had done some follow-up. This was also talked about on KMOX news
this week. So ignore the calls if you get them and just hang up.
