Please Return This Call To The IRS As Soon As Possible!

So, after you reach the age of 60 and beyond, you end up on a list of phone numbers called by the scum of the earth to try and swindle you out of your money.  I had seen numerous videos of people who receive these calls and string these scabby pricks along for nearly an hour before blowing their cover.  After receiving a voice message from one of these wastes of oxygen, I decided to take my turn at having some fun.

Upon calling the number left for me (which was routed through one of the telephone number rental locations), I was greeted by a man with a heavy accent, on a phone system that had such bad call quality that it had to have been on a VOIP system (voice over internet).  I could barely hear this useless sludge of life talk and had to keep asking over and over what he was saying.

Finally, I was told that I had underpaid my taxes over the last 3 years and owed a balance of $5,945.00.  He then asked me for my name (funny, but wouldn’t you ask that first?),  after giving him the name Mike Hunt (many of you might remember that as an old joke to call a busy bar and ask them to page the name—say it really fast and you will get it), he then wanted to verify that I would either fight this with the IRS or I would accept my guilt and pay the back taxes plus fines.  The man never asked for my address.

So, I played the role of an elderly man who was quite upset and after dragging the situation out for about 15 minutes, the man on the phone told me that I need to go to one of my local pharmacies and get a gift card then call him back.  Again, I laid numerous questions on this half-wit, acting very upset and surely deserving of that Oscar that I have always wanted (not sure who I would thank first—probably the imbecile who took my call).

After another 10 minutes of Academy Award-winning performance, the knucklehead, totally exasperated, called me a m_____ f_____!  Golly gee wilikers, these guys have no sense of humor.  I really find it amazing that there are people out there who fall for these cheesy, stupid play acting performed by people with names like Joe, who really don’t sound like someone named Joe.  There probably are.

What ticks me off about this whole scenario is that the phone companies in the US who rent out banks of calling numbers with no regard to what these numbers might be used for, do not have a tighter set of regulations regarding how the numbers are used.  Or maybe, the blame should be placed on the regulatory agencies (mainly the FCC) for not prohibiting this kind of constant fraud via US phone systems.  I realize that many of you will say “you have to be smarter than these scammers are” and your right, however, and unfortunately, there are many senior citizens out there who are easy targets for these scum bags.

Besides all of that, we as customers who pay hard earned money for phone usage be it landline or cell phone and we really deserve a better system without these kinds of scams and hassles.  It is amazing how the US can now track every living being on this planet, but we can’t find scammers who use our phone networks.  Maybe I have been too hard on the individuals who participate in this horribly planned scam, the US has certainly spent its fair share of time stealing from others.  But it seems to me that you would have more pride in your existence here on this planet and would want to do more with your life than trying to steal money from unsuspecting citizens.  Once again, this all reeks of the global greed that continuously looks to steal our money with no regard for human life or dignity.  Be cautious, there seems to be a ton of scams happening out there!

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