Scam
Yesterday there was a call from Rochester, NY early in the morning. Since it was an unknown number, as usual, I just ignored it and slept on. In the late afternoon, I noticed the answering machine was blinking signaling the record of a new message. It was from a Dexter Cruise person at IRS auditing my husband's case and asked him to call him back. When he called back, he told my husband that he owes $3,000 in tax from 2008-2010 tax returns. And the police would come to apprehend him. It is obviously wrong because, in those years, we had very simple and clean (nothing to audit about) tax return and we keep our record in the pc. But just by hearing disturbing things like that, it was upsetting enough.
Later, we found out after digging around a little in the web, that this prank call has been going around. There were a lot of ladies victimized by this scam too. First of all, if IRS ever audits any account, they will give us the notice by mail. We once had to give some supplementary records for some transactions before to help their math, it was requested by mail and returned by mail. No calls! The scammer kinda got us in the beginning because he seemed to have extensive personal information. But I bet he did not even know our SSN either. Besides why would a NY agency call us when we belong to Mass area. Nothing added up.
We need to watch out for these con artist and backstabbers. The world is getting scarier everyday...
Later, we found out after digging around a little in the web, that this prank call has been going around. There were a lot of ladies victimized by this scam too. First of all, if IRS ever audits any account, they will give us the notice by mail. We once had to give some supplementary records for some transactions before to help their math, it was requested by mail and returned by mail. No calls! The scammer kinda got us in the beginning because he seemed to have extensive personal information. But I bet he did not even know our SSN either. Besides why would a NY agency call us when we belong to Mass area. Nothing added up.
We need to watch out for these con artist and backstabbers. The world is getting scarier everyday...