Poll of the Day > Cool, they caught (some of) the people doing that IRS phone scam

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/business/irs-phone-scams-jeff-sessions.html
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Was it Donald trump

Good news. These scams are always so fucking annoying and I've gotten so many calls like this before.
They seem to have stopped over the past year or so though. Maybe this is why? Lol. Crack down on this BS.
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Awesome, those spam calls were always annoying.

Over four years, more than 15,000 victims in the United States lost hundreds of millions of dollars to the sophisticated scam, and more than 50,000 individuals had their personal information misused, the department said Friday. The money was routed through call centers in India back to the ringleaders in eight states.

Somewhat surprised that so many people actually fell for it (especially when the fraudsters were asking for pre-paid cards, like wtf?). The other details are kinda interesting.

The fraudulent calls came suddenly and frequently while the scam was active from 2012 to 2016, according to court documents. A person posing as an Internal Revenue Service or immigration official was on the phone, threatening arrest, deportation or other penalties if the victims did not immediately pay their debts with prepaid cards or wire transfers.

Crap, so that means it's not going to stop the calls since iirc I've had some in the past year.
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Zeus posted...

Crap, so that means it's not going to stop the calls since iirc I've had some in the past year.

You don't know that yet. This could scare them off knowing they are finally being cracked down on.
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Zeus posted...

Somewhat surprised that so many people actually fell for it

They're called old people, a.k.a people with no understanding of modern technology.
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Zeus posted...

Awesome, those spam calls were always annoying.

Over four years, more than 15,000 victims in the United States lost hundreds of millions of dollars to the sophisticated scam, and more than 50,000 individuals had their personal information misused, the department said Friday. The money was routed through call centers in India back to the ringleaders in eight states.

Somewhat surprised that so many people actually fell for it (especially when the fraudsters were asking for pre-paid cards, like wtf?). The other details are kinda interesting.

Ha ha in Canada they had people demanding they had outstanding taxes to pay with iTunes cards. Like how the hell does anyone believe that?
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