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The email message below with the subject: "Urgent: Warrant Issued," which claims that the recipients will be soon served with the court papers due to non-payment after so many reminders, is a scam. The fake email message was sent by scammers to trick the recipients into sending them money by threatening legal actions. Therefore, recipients of the fake email message should delete and not follow the instructions in it.
It is important that the public take precautions when asked to send money via money transfer services like Western Union and MoneyGram, or Prepaid Debit Card to pay legal services or the government. This is because scammers use those untraceable money transfer services to collect money from their victims. Money sent via those services are not refundable, once the scammers have collected or used it.
From: DEPARTMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT <attorney.danialwatson@ gmail.com>Date: Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 4:08 PMSubject: URGENT: WARRANT ISSUEDThe case will be downloaded on Monday (July 11th 2016) and you will be soon served with the court papers due to non-payment after so many reminders. If you want to avoid these legal consequences we merely require you to get back to us with the payment
From: DEPARTMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT <attorney.danialwatson@ gmail.com>Date: Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 4:08 PMSubject: URGENT: WARRANT ISSUED
The case will be downloaded on Monday (July 11th 2016) and you will be soon served with the court papers due to non-payment after so many reminders. If you want to avoid these legal consequences we merely require you to get back to us with the payment
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Our call was as follows:"Hello this call is officially a final notice from IRS Internal Revenue Service. The reason of this call is to inform you that IRS is filling lawsuit on your name because you had tried to do a fraud with the IRS Internal Revenue Service. And we are taking legal action and we are issuing an arrest warrant on your name. To get more information regarding this case file. Just call us back on our department number 206-259-9137. I will repeat at-.206-259-9137(?). Thank you" We have received so many calls from this bunch I am tempted to call them back and play games. It would be entertaining and tie their phone up for awhile.
I've had the same voicemail message from the same number twice in 2 days. I'm tempted to play games too!
Received via email:"Caller ID was from Vashon, WA. Number to call back to avoid legal action was 206-259-9137."