A message received on our home number purports to be from the Taxation Office. Well spoken and well presented message....BUT obviously it is a scan aiming to frighten you since you are about to be taken to the "courthouse". In this country we never refer to Court in that way. WATCH OUT for this one!!!

Same tax scam 2023 but with subcontinental accent.

Basically a TAX SCAM fraud with court proceedings against you name etc. He rang on the 18th July 2016 and the next day the 19th and left messages. On the 18th he wanted me to ring this number (02) 8317 3355 and on the 19th wanted me to ring (02) 8599 6163 ( The name he stated to contact was Jason McGuire ...not sure). Im going to go to a public phone and ring him back and give him bogus bank account details and / or credit card details and let him see if he can Con over the banks. With all this ASIO stuff and terrorism I think they will be able to trace and track the Fkrs

We also had 3 voicemail messages left on our landline from this number today. A voice with an accent (American mixed with something else) claims to be from the ATO and about to commence proceedings against me (they don't have our names of course) for tax avoidance in the past. And they need me to call them back on this number before they put the case into the courthouse. The first and third messages were absolutely identical in voice and wording (obviously a recording), the middle message was a different voice and stronger accent and different call back number.
Obviously I didn't bother calling the scum back.

Scam scam scam

Tax scam. Threatening legal action over unpaid tax debt.

http://www.news.com.au/finance/money/tax/watch-out-for-these-tax-time-scams/news-story/6f48e0df0a896a61caee9fe0df253f5f


“Someone calls the taxpayer claiming to be from the ATO and stating that the taxpayer has an outstanding debt which needs to be paid immediately in order to avoid a tax audit, issue of bailiffs, police arrest, or somesuch.

“The taxpayer is told to make an immediate payment — often with the ‘ATO officer’ still on the phone. The ATO doesn’t chase debts in this way so any phone call like this is always a scam.

“The ‘ATO-officer’ will often leave an Australian landline number to call back on, though that typically diverts to a mobile god-knows-where. This seems to have been a very effective scam, there are multiple reports of people paying-up.”

Recorded message purporting to be from the ATO.

Received a call 2016-07-11 as well as 2016-07-12 from this number. Identical recorded messages supposedly from the Australian Tax Office, stating that <someone>'s case is being taken to the courthouse due to illegal tax evasion but to call this number to find out more information.

Yeah, right!

This a number being used regarding a Taxation Department scam

Threatening legal action

Scam message pretending to be from the Australian Taxation Office threatening legal action and wanting you to call back on this number