![]() IRS spokesperson Dan Boone said earlier this spring the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, (TIGTA) had gotten 60,000 calls about the scam. “They’re doing this to people who are unsuspecting and don’t know how systems work and could very easily frighten them to turn over money,” she said.ĭietrich is one of thousands of taxpayers who’ve been contacted by scammers pretending to be from the IRS. She wanted to help warn other residents about the scam. “‘Can you please read me the complaint or can I go home with my husband and call you back?'” she says she asked the caller.ĭietrich emailed the On Your Side Investigators shortly afterwards. Knowing it was likely a scam, she decided to press the caller for more information. “He said, ‘This is David Chambers,’ and it was the same voice that had told me to call back!” Dietrich said.ĭietrich says she knew she didn’t owe the government and, as an accountant, was also skeptical that such a call would come first. She knew better than to call back from her cell, so instead got a co-worker, and called back from a conference room on speaker phone. She says he told her, “‘It concerns a tax liability because you fraudulently filed some taxes which you $11,000 and now there’s a warrant for you.'”ĭietrich says the caller then proceeded to tell her she needed to hang up, call him back from her cellphone, and ask for a person named David Chambers. “I was very shaken up at the first call, I’m like, there’s a warrant for my arrest?” she said.ĭietrich said the man had a foreign accent and called her by name. This comes after the government once again warned taxpayers that the scam was making the rounds.ĭebra Dietrich was at work when she got the call. Mid-South residents continue to get phone calls from scam artists pretending to be from the Internal Revenue Service or the U.S. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. In a brief post-meeting statement, Biden called the session productive but merely added that he, McCarthy and their lead negotiators “will continue to discuss the path forward.” Upbeat, McCarthy said their teams would work “through the night.This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. ![]() “The time of spending, just spending more money in America and government is wrong,” McCarthy said after the Oval Office meeting. Biden wants to increase some taxes on the wealthiest Americans and some big companies, but McCarthy said early on that that is out of the question. Republicans are determined to cut spending while Biden’s team offered to hold spending levels flat. They are at odds over how to trim annual budget deficits. ![]() stability, sending shockwaves through the global economy.Įach side praised the other’s seriousness, but basic differences remained. Such an unprecedented default would be financially damaging for many Americans and others around the world relying on U.S. It’s a crucial moment for the Democratic president and the Republican speaker, just 10 days before a looming deadline to raise the debt limit.Īs soon as June 1, Treasury Secretary Janel Yellen said in a letter to Congress, “it is highly likely” the government will be unable to pay all the nation’s bills. WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy both said they had a productive debt ceiling discussion late Monday at the White House, but there was no agreement as negotiators strained to raise the nation’s borrowing limit in time to avert a potentially chaotic federal default.
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