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I just received a call from this guy this morning who claimed his name was Eric Matthews, and that he was the Treasury Inspector General with the IRS, and also a tax attorney. He had a foreign accent, and the caller ID said 'Washington DC'. He claimed that my husband and I were being investigated by the IRS, and that we had engaged in fraudulent activity on our taxes sometime between 2006 and 2010. He went on to lecture me that this is a serious offense to our country, and that we would be sent to prison for three years and charged with felony/treason unless we choose to go through the US courts and dispute it. He said the IRS has filed a legal affidavit and is seeking to recover unpaid taxes by taking legal action a***nst us in a lawsuit. For this, we were about to be arrested within the hour. We would have a tax lien a***nst our property, and our house and****ets would be sold off to do so. Our wages would be garnished and our bank accounts frozen. And we could serve a minimum 3-year prison sentence, and be charged with a $48,000 fine. However, if we went ahead and "took care of the matter now" (within an hour), and worked with him (a Federal Agent ("Federal Treasurer Inspector General")) to pay back a minimal amount now (within the hour) and come up with a payment plan to pay back the rest of the amount owed, which he claimed was under $2000, the immediate arrest could be avoided. I s****ed asking questions, and he accused me of being rude and ***g up on me, threatening that he would not be able to help me further unless I took immediate action. When I questioned him, suggesting this was fraud, he became angered and ***g up. Then he had a "local police officer" contact me (with caller ID '911') to confirm my address for them and to warn me that they will be coming to arrest me within the hour. I s****ed to argue with the 'police' that this was a mistake, and the 'police' said that that he was just doing his job, and that I would need to call back the federal agent and let him know I would work with him politely, and that was the only way I could avoid the arrest. He wanted me to 3-way call back "Eric" to see whether we were going to work together to pay back some of the money we fraudulently owed the IRS; otherwise he had received the orders to head over to make the arrest! When I called Eric back, to discuss what I needed to do to avoid the arrest, he advised me to pay down some of the money owed, and that the tax miscalculation dispute can be later con*****d in the courts. I ***g up and called the local Sheriff, to tell him about this scam and to make sure these fraudulent guys were reported. The Sheriff also came to my house to take the report.

SCAM... claims to be IRS