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BRYAN - The Better Business Bureau is warning about scammers posing as employees of the
Internal Revenue Service in recent phone calls to people in the Brazos
Valley.
According to the BBB office in Bryan, numerous local residents said they received calls Friday morning from people with
heavy Jamaican accents who claimed they were with the IRS and
threatening legal action if they don't make payments. Credit card
numbers are requested.
Caller IDs show a 202 area code, which is for Washington, DC. However, the BBB says those behind the scam are spoofing
that area code.
The BBB reminds residents that the IRS mails letters in order to contact taxpayers, and that the closest IRS office
is in Austin, so a letter would come from there and not Washington. The
Austin IRS office can be reached at (512) 499-5127.
To talk to someone at the Bryan BBB office, call (979) 260-2222. Officials there say people receiving the scam calls have
hung up and not provided their information.
I received a call yesterday but the phone number that came up was not from the 202 area code. This is the number that came up on my phone 936 566 3621. The voicemail had a female robotic voice.
BRYAN - The Better Business Bureau is warning about scammers posing as employees of the
Internal Revenue Service in recent phone calls to people in the Brazos
Valley.
According to the BBB office in Bryan, numerous local residents said they received calls Friday morning from people with
heavy Jamaican accents who claimed they were with the IRS and
threatening legal action if they don't make payments. Credit card
numbers are requested.
Caller IDs show a 202 area code, which is for Washington, DC. However, the BBB says those behind the scam are spoofing
that area code.
The BBB reminds residents that the IRS mails letters in order to contact taxpayers, and that the closest IRS office
is in Austin, so a letter would come from there and not Washington. The
Austin IRS office can be reached at (512) 499-5127.
To talk to someone at the Bryan BBB office, call (979) 260-2222. Officials there say people receiving the scam calls have
hung up and not provided their information.
I received a call yesterday but the phone number that came up was not from the 202 area code. This is the number that came up on my phone 936 566 3621. The voicemail had a female robotic voice.