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| Indian call center employees posing as the IRS may have bilked Americans out of millions |
| 2016-10-06 |
| [WAPO] NEW DELHI -- Computer-savvy criminals posing as Internal Revenue Service officers at call centers in India may have bilked unsuspecting Americans out of millions, police in India said Thursday. Police conducted a dramatic midnight raid at a call center in the country’s commercial capital of Mumbai Tuesday, and detained 770 employees for questioning, of which 70 were later charged with fraud, wrongful impersonation and violating the country’s Internet safety law. The call centers were making more than $150,000 a day through these scams that took place for a little over a year, police said. The callers told their American victims they were conducting a "tax revision" or that they had defaulted on payments to the I.R.S. and would then obtain their personal finance information and withdraw money from their bank accounts, according to Param Bir Singh, a senior police officer in Mumbai who led the raid. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 746, that's how you know it's not the real IRS. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2016-10-06 21:10 |
| #9 I did. I told them: "Unfortunately, you reached an actual IRS agent's cell. By the way, 'Peggy', you need to learn better english, and now that we have your number.." *click* they hung up on me |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-10-06 20:38 |
| #8 I especially like to call them back, they always answer |
| Posted by: 746 2016-10-06 19:14 |
| #7 Hey, if we didn't take it, they'd only give it to Hillary. - Gromajata |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-10-06 17:24 |
| #6 Ask them for their IRS employee ID number - it should be a 7 (old-timers) or 10 (relative newbies) digit number. if it's the 10 digit one, it always starts with '1000'. Ask them what field office they work out of. They'll usually respond with 'Washington'. WRONG! That's the national headquarters. Ask them which year the assessment is for. When they give you the year, pepper them with questions - What's my social security number / adjusted gross income, etc. Watch them choke. Don't forget to say rude things about their sisters! |
| Posted by: Raj 2016-10-06 13:37 |
| #5 This is another reason to have to have cats and paper clips at the ready. Also screaming, OMG! THE BLOOD! Also, "Did you know the deceased personally? Where were you 47 minutes ago? Is this your blender? Best tell me now" I have used variants of all three, srsly. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-10-06 13:21 |
| #4 The Missus got one of these calls a few weeks back. Called me all excited. Had to tell her the IRS doesn't make collection call; they send letters. The next time the scammers called, she read them the riot act. |
| Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2016-10-06 13:03 |
| #3 I had two of these shitheads call me a few weeks ago - I kicked the crap out of them, said rude things about their sisters, then hung up. It was a lot of fun! |
| Posted by: Raj 2016-10-06 11:57 |
| #2 Selfish pikers. Had they paid the appropriate commissions to the DNC and FBI, all of this unpleasantness might have been avoided. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-10-06 08:56 |
| #1 If you don't loose it all to the Chactaws, the danged Patel's take it. |
| Posted by: Knuckles Flutch2169 2016-10-06 08:54 |