But then again, if you contact the IRS over this, they might decide to run an audit on you just in case "Kevin" was correct.

Haele

The IRS will send letters, more letters and then registered letters. I've never heard of the IRS only calling any one.

It might be a hoot to give him a call and waste his time. The scammers can say the funniest things.

Edit: assumed he meant IRS not Treasury as I can't think of any reason they contact people. If they did it would be written.

sometimes they connect you to long distance at the rate of 100 bucks a minute, and our telephone company is not at all helpful in getting charges undone.

Is it still possible to make collect calls?

Received a message like this last week. Ignored it.

Block the caller-- I think it's from overseas but they "spoof" an American phone number.

he must be related to "wendy", the IT person i spoke to last week from directv, with a distinct indian accent

He asked her if she was a Nigerian prince
and she wrote back an indigant " I am NOT Nigerian!"
Never contacted him again.
He is so broken hearted over this lost opportunity....

but I think that Kevin got wind of the pending deal and now wants some of that money coming to us.

They hung up when I suggested they contact my Nigerian banker who was holding several million for me pending my "registration" and payment of my "registration fee".

I am pretty sure that's who they are looking for

where the caller says he is an agent of the IRS and I am being criminally prosecuted for fraudulently unpaid taxes (which I don't have any of) and that I must call them back right away or the police will come to my home and arrest me. I've reported these calls to the real IRS (you can report online). The IRS will never contact you by telephone even if you do owe taxes - you get a registered letter - and you won't be arrested for anything until after a long legal process. I guess some people must actually believe these scams, which is sad.

...one day earlier this week. They came about every 90 minutes.

but this week have several calls I do need to answer.

there is talk of the phone companies being pressured to do something about these damn robo calls, but I would not be surprised to find the telcos are getting a kickback, just like they do get when someone adds a 3rd party bill to your phone bill and the telephone company proclaims their inability to take the charge off unless you end up raising holy hell.

...if no number is shown. The IRS scam always leaves a message, so I just keep hitting "delete."

yesterday I got a call from Credit Card Services, not that there is anything wrong with my cards but they want to help me get lower interest rates (right).

I pressed 1 for human contact and when I told him I was on the do not call list he called me all kinds of profane names I hope they recorded that one for training purposes.