Talk:IRS impersonation scam

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Rise of Scams During the 2021 Holiday Season

The FTC, Best Buy, Target and other big-box retailers are starting to ramp up gift card scam awareness this holiday season, because of a high number of them going around, especially due to COVID-19, so I think it is time that someone edit this article to address that as of this Christmas 2021, there have been many reports of it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bradenbear424 (talk • contribs) 01:18, 21 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Removing the warnings

This scam has become hugely more prolific as of 2018 and I believe the current page, although not perfect is now good enough following some edits to remove the warnings. Colinmcdermott (talk) 22:38, 10 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Merge?

these damn scams always show up around this time of year, somebody actually bothered to make an article on it. I congratulate them for doing that but I feel it should be better off to be merged with scams with a specific mention of this one. Pyromania153 (talk) 00:50, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I think this ought to be merged into List of confidence tricks - there's not a whole lot here for this page to be its own article. While the authorities are making progress against this type of scam, seems like this one will always be with us. (Mew4ever23 (talk) 13:54, 4 July 2016 (UTC))[reply]

I would be good with merging into List of confidence tricks as Mew4ever23 suggests. It would be a perfectly sensible move.--Ddcm8991 (talk) 15:54, 12 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Many of the tricks mentioned in list of confidence tricks are unsourced (or only have a source for a peripheral statement). The tricks in the article on the IRS impersonation scam are supported by citations - and because of this, when people add content, they do it to a good standard. If you want to improve Wikipedia, you should concentrate your efforts on cleaning up bad articles rather than changing good standard articles into redirects.-- Toddy1 (talk) 07:49, 11 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This article could be improved by making the title more generic: such as "Tax agent impersonation scam", with sub-headings for each country.Pakbelang (talk) 01:47, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why is there no mention of the fact that virtually all of these scammers have been located in India? https://www.wsj.com/articles/indian-police-detain-workers-over-possible-irs-phone-scam-1475674691 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/06/huge-phone-scam-targeting-americans-leads-to-750-arrests-in-india http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/06/news/india-irs-scam-arrests/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.248.119.44 (talk) 20:21, 5 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

They ARE located in India and this should be mentioned. The only 'Indians' arrested (see article) in connection with IRS scams have been the ones foolish enough to operate within the USA. India-located IRS-call scam centres (where 99.99% of these scam phone calls originate) are beyond American jurisdiction. Attempts to bring the scammers to Indian justice have proved remarkably unsuccessful. 31.51.246.113 (talk) 19:08, 25 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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