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2016-10-06 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Indian call center employees posing as the IRS may have bilked Americans out of millions

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-10-06 08:47|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#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|| 2016-10-06 08:54|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-10-06 08:56|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-10-06 11:57|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-10-06 13:03|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-10-06 13:21|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-10-06 13:37|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-10-06 17:24|| Front Page Top

#8 I especially like to call them back, they always answer

Posted by 746 2016-10-06 19:14|| 2016-10-06 19:14|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-10-06 20:38|| Front Page Top

#10 746, that's how you know it's not the real IRS.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2016-10-06 21:10|| 2016-10-06 21:10|| Front Page Top

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