Got an "IRS" call today...
I knew it was fake the moment the recording started claiming it was the IRS. The IRS site (IRS.Gov) is emphatic that the IRS will *never* call you, so anyone that does & claims to be them is a lying sack of shit. Ignore them.
I decided to try & get sufficient info out of them to perhaps be able to file a useful police report. I strung the "agent" on for as long as I could, asking about this & that, wanting to know stuff about the stimulus payments that I was able to verify in real time (site open in front of me, audio from it to an earpiece, telephone with the scammer on the other ear), and kept finding stuff with which to trip them up.
They finally got to the part where they wanted my payment info, I asked "If you're the IRS then you should already have that, right?"
"Oh, we do, but we have to verify it with you to make sure you're you."
Shouldn't you have verified my ID at the very beginning to make sure you weren't wasting everyone's time by talking to the wrong person?
"Oh, we know it's you, we just have to make sure it's you."
Uh huh, and pigs can painlessly fly out my ass. "So, does your mom know you scam honest folks out of their hard earned money, or is she currently spinning in her grave in shame & disgust over what you've become?"
The guy called me some naughty things in an East Indian language then slammed down the phone.
Hmmmm... I wonder if the IRS makes calls from India?
Posting anon because I don't want them to realize whose been fekkin wit' their heads. =-D
*Waving* Hi guys! Fek off an' die!