[phone]. I just received a call from this number

[sharp_stick]

2. I got one of these awhile ago

I wound up playing with the lady for awhile but I'd heard of the scam earlier.

She started off telling me that she was so and so from the IRS and her badge number was some 6 digit number. I asked her to repeat the number and she did it correctly, reading off a script of course, so I asked why her ID didn't start with a letter like "all IRS investigating agents have" ( I have no idea if they even have badges BTW). She paused for awhile kind of surprised and then went on with the spiel in badly accented English.

She said I owed the IRS some specific number like $6347.54 and that if I paid 10% she could turn back the police cars that were on their way to pick me up. I immediately apologized for screwing up as I only intended to rip off the tax guys for $2965.22 so I must have made a math error.

I told her I had no intention of paying it, she said the police would be at my house within the hour. I thanked her for telling me so I could get my toothbrush and stuff and meet them out front. She paused for a second then I got bored so I heaped a bunch of profane abuse on her and her family and hung up.