Inside the Indian IRS scam that cheated U.S. taxpayers out of millions
Nearly an hour into the phone call, the woman began to get suspicious.
The man on the line said he was with the Internal Revenue Service and that she owed a penalty for tax fraud. But to make the payment, he told her to drive to a nearby Food 4 Less grocery store in suburban San Diego and purchase an iTunes gift card.
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But it was too late. The 29-year-old National City woman had already shared an iTunes card number worth $500 – becoming one of tens of thousands of Americans drawn in by an extensive, years-long scam in which callers from India pose as IRS agents to extort money from taxpayers.
Indian call centers have built a reputation for handling customer service and tech support inquiries for major U.S. companies. But in recent years, investigators in the United States, Canada, Britain and other countries have traced several organized phone frauds – involving callers posing as computer technicians, debt collectors, immigration officials or tax agents – to Indian call centers.
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but we found a virus on your computer."
A twofer as long as they had a live one.
