Left a poor quality voicemail on home phone and was told to call back. My dad called back and was told they had called th wrong number plus th taxation dept would have sent a letter not called first so we reported them to taxation dept to be sure and i would advise anyone else to do the same.

This american speaking person left message on answering machine to contact the tax department for fraud on your account and that this is serious and you need to call this number immediately. I knew this was spam as the ATO in AUstralia would send you a letter and not call. DO NOT RETURN THIS PERSONS CALL.

Same as Louise. The tax department would never call you like this.

Indian sounding man rang 26/02/2016 claimed to be Tax Office, threatened my elderly parent with tax evasion of $8000 and that Sheriff was coming around to arrest her. Left this phone no. I rang and questioned James, who claimed to be calling from Canberra Melbourne ATO office?? When pressed, he laughed and admitted scam originating in Afghanistan or India and that he would keep ringing my parent. I rang ATO Scam Line and reported all details.

Same. Called my mother and threatened that she's guilty of tax evasion.
Also threatened to call mom everyday

Claimed there was going to be a case against us. When told that the ATO would not contact our home number as all information is through a PO Box and our business address they hug up.

i had the same message twice on answering machine,recorded the message on my phone,took it to my tax agent,they said it was a hoax too,do not give them any infomation at all,tax file no,do not even ring them back,report these scum to ATO,

Had 3 messages from this caller in two days. The message is word for word the same...appears to be a recorded scam message. Ignore or report.

Same as above. The same person left a message on 2 consecutive days to indicated hat a 'Criminal Case had been initiated for tax evasion'. Referred to the 'Territory' I live in.Definite scam

Rings several times a day and leaves messages of a threatening nature from the taxation department.

Got what seems to be a bogus phone message about tax fraud. They said they were from the ATO, but never used my name during the message, let alone my tax file number. Said to call back, but left no details (e.g. case number, name to contact, etc.). Clearly some kind of fishing expedition. I just deleted.

These people call my mother claiming to be from the tax office and gave this number to call back on. I called while they answered claiming to be ATO, just hang up when pressed for personal names and physical "office" locations. Second call got me an earful of abuse, then told he was calling from Pakistan so there was nothing Australia could do to stop him. Reported the fraudulent call with 'real' ATO and registered with ACCC fraud investigation dept. Do not give them ANY information and recommend report any calls of this kind.