Phishing

The phone rings.

The number is "unknown".

I notice it's from Texas.

I answer.

The recorded message says 

(insert ominous voice)

"The IRS has been trying to locate you.

This is your final notice.

The IRS is filing a lawsuit against you.

Call this number immediately."

Hmmmmmmm.

So I called.

The call didn't go through.

I called again.

A man with a foreign accent answered

and was clearly reading unfamiliar

words from a script.

"This is the IRS.  Can I help you?"

I hung up.

The next day the phone rings.

The number is "unknown".

I notice it's from Washington D.C.

I answer.

The recorded message says...

"The IRS has been trying to locate you.

This is your final notice.

The IRS is filing a lawsuit against you.

Call this number immediately."

I am unimpressed with the "final notice".

For the second time.

www.irs.gov directs me to a website

to report the phishing.

So I do.

Not surprisingly I haven't heard anything since.

It wasn't a displaced Nigerian Prince.

But still.

I feel special.

(LOL)