IRS officer Jim Brown had Jessica Dillard in tears. Brown had called to collect $3,700 in taxes that he said she owed. Brown identified himself, volunteering his badge number at the Internal ...

The IRS says a phone scam has duped 1,100 victims out of $5 million. ... and then use bogus names and fake IRS badge numbers to introduce themselves. To make the call seem more official, ...

Werfel noted that the first IRS contact with taxpayers on a tax issue is likely to occur via mail Other characteristics of this scam include: • Scammers use fake names and IRS badge numbers.

The IRS never insists on a specific payment method. And the IRS never demand immediate over the telephone. If people pay once, the scammers may call them again to try to get more money, police warned.

The Internal Revenue Service watchdog on Thursday warned taxpayers of a sophisticated nationwide phone scheme that has become “the largest scam of its kind that we have ever seen.”sophisticated ...

Running your fingers over what retired IRS special agent Raymond Sherrard says is one of the most coveted police badges ever made is to step back in history. But it’s not the history you’d expect.

Scammers are working overtime trying to get your money in a continuing phone scam. The Internal Revenue Service reports sophisticated IRS impostors are calling people and demanding immediate ...

Referring to IRS-Criminal Investigations (IRS-CI) agents, Rep. Holding says that he wants to "take the guns and badges away from the IRS." IRS-CI special agents tackle crimes focusing on tax ...

Deon Owensby was supposed to have returned the ID badge, known as a "pocket commission," when he left the IRS in April 2015. Instead, prosecutors said, he told his former supervisor it had been ...

IRS auditors are trained to spot common types of deception and attempts to defraud Uncle Sam. IRS auditor look for these acts, called “badges of fraud”, during an audit of a taxpayer’s ...