{"id":315,"date":"2017-07-28T16:22:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T16:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/?p=315"},"modified":"2017-07-28T16:22:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T16:22:42","slug":"the-irs-called-me-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/the-irs-called-me-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"The IRS Called Me Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s not strange because as a CPA I speak to the IRS quite often. However, they called my cell phone and left a prerecorded message about tax fraud. It was a scam of course, and I am posting this to warn you that the IRS does not call taxpayers initially without sending a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.njtaxsolutions.com\/\">notice<\/a>, nor do they threaten you with an arrest. If you have received a phone call like this and are not sure if it is legitimate, then please contact our office.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the message:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHello, this call is officially a final notice from IRS, Internal Revenue Service. The reason of this call is to inform you that IRS is filing a lawsuit on your name because you had tried to do a fraud with the IRS, Internal Revenue Service, and we are taking a legal action and we are issuing an arrest warrant on your name. To get more information regarding this case just call us back on our department number 202xxxxxxx. I will repeat it 202xxxxxxx. Thank you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By the way, the IRS will not ask you for credit card numbers over the phone or ask you to purchase a prepaid debit card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s not strange because as a CPA I speak to the IRS quite often. However, they called my cell phone and left a prerecorded message about tax fraud. It was a scam of course, and I am posting this to warn you that the IRS does not call taxpayers initially without sending a notice, nor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12,15,18],"tags":[39,60,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-financial","7":"category-irs-resolution","8":"category-new-jersey-tax","9":"category-taxes","10":"tag-irs","11":"tag-notices","12":"tag-taxes","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}