PSA - We thought we were being scammed....
May 31, 2016 17:45:15 GMT
freecharlie, melrose, and 3 more like this
Post by Deleted on May 31, 2016 17:45:15 GMT
.....received a call on Saturday from a state's attorney general's office. I didn't answer it because it was from "unknown". They left a voicemail and we called the number and it actually was the state's office and got a recording that we owed $8K (state's office was closed until Monday). I still wasn't sure if it was scam or not. I looked up the state's phone number and called them on Monday. We moved from that state in 2006.
Someone attempted to file a state return in 2013, they stopped it. However, when they got information from the IRS they decided we owed them money. They were only one week away from filing a lien on our credit. Thank goodness I didn't dismiss this as a scam. I spent all morning talking to different people in an attempt to stop the lien. I pointed out that we never received a phone call or letter. They said we sent you a letter and since the USPS didn't return it, they assumed we received it. Ummm, whoever tried to file gave 1556 Any Street as our address. We never lived there in in fact, if they looked up the county's property tax, they would see 1556 Any Street isn't a property, it doesn't exist.
I began to realize we had received the same phone call months earlier and I dismissed it because we hadn't lived in the state for ten years. I thought it was a scam.
Scam or not, be prudent about denying or accepting it is a scam. Never call the number they leave, look up the number online and check there to see if it could be legitimate. A $8K lien would have destroyed our credit. It would have taken months to get it cleared.
ETA This happened last Monday, not yesterday (Memorial Day).
Someone attempted to file a state return in 2013, they stopped it. However, when they got information from the IRS they decided we owed them money. They were only one week away from filing a lien on our credit. Thank goodness I didn't dismiss this as a scam. I spent all morning talking to different people in an attempt to stop the lien. I pointed out that we never received a phone call or letter. They said we sent you a letter and since the USPS didn't return it, they assumed we received it. Ummm, whoever tried to file gave 1556 Any Street as our address. We never lived there in in fact, if they looked up the county's property tax, they would see 1556 Any Street isn't a property, it doesn't exist.
I began to realize we had received the same phone call months earlier and I dismissed it because we hadn't lived in the state for ten years. I thought it was a scam.
Scam or not, be prudent about denying or accepting it is a scam. Never call the number they leave, look up the number online and check there to see if it could be legitimate. A $8K lien would have destroyed our credit. It would have taken months to get it cleared.
ETA This happened last Monday, not yesterday (Memorial Day).
