Greetings to One and All!

I've been targeted by scammers representing that they are IRS agents and that I've committed tax fraud, yada yada yada.

http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/press/press_tigta-2014-03.htm

They've called me several times, and today I finally took the time to waste their time listening to the whole scam. They're good, and I can see that if they run into someone who has tax issues, that it could be compelling as they had a whole lot of data about me that they rattled off... So for fun I agreed to go and get $1445 worth of Green Dot money cards within two hours (NOT) and wait to see if indeed they would call me back in two hours. In the meantime I called Las Vegas Metro Police, who had the phone number right handy for the FBI department handling this scam, who gave me the website above and suggested I follow the links to file a report:

http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/contact_report_scam.shtml

SOB called back in exactly 2 hours ( Why aren't my Doctors office, Pharmacy, etc. able to do that?) He asked if I had the Green Dot Cards. Said no, I couldn't get the money. Asked me if I really wanted him to turn me over for enforcement and possible arrest. I told him that I was surprised that he'd want to get anywhere near law enforcement. I told him I did have some numbers I could give him and rattled off the FBI number and the websites cited. It took him a minute to realize the game was up as he continued to read off his script. Finally when he saw the light, he suggested I go to the Statue of Liberty and go jump off the top of her! I told him I didn't like going to New York. He then said I could come to Pakistan instead and [perform oral on him], called me a [rectal opening] and hung up!

In all, I was thoroughly entertained, just having gotten home from the hospital with nothing better to do, wasted about an hour of his time, maybe saving 5 or so other folks from getting his calls today.

Steve