{"id":14331,"date":"2015-11-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/irs-telephone-scam\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:09:16","slug":"irs-telephone-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/irs-telephone-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS Telephone Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stop losing sleep over your tax situation. I&#039;m Darrin Mish \u2014 a tax attorney in Tampa who&#039;s spent 32 years handling exactly this kind of problem. Here&#039;s what you need to know.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt, we all <a href=\"http:\/\/wivb.com\/2015\/09\/24\/if-the-irs-calls-hang-up-it-is-not-the-irs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have a measure of respect<\/a> for the IRS regardless of any personal feelings. However, if you ever get a call from the IRS, hang up.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing a voice on the other end of the phone claiming to be the IRS can send chills up the average person\u2019s spine. If you get the call, tell the caller that you do<a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/tag\/irs-forms\/\">n\u2019t do IRS transactions over the phone. Ask them to send you any relevant information in the mail.<\/a> Don\u2019t give your out mailing address. If they were legitimate, they would already have it.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"pullquote\">You have to be strong in your resolve. Some people actually cave into the scammers\u2019 demands and send hard-earned cash.<\/span> America\u2019s seniors lose billions of dollars due to such scams each year. Seniors, especially, are advised not to answer phone calls from numbers they don\u2019t recognize.<\/p>\n<p>Realizing that the IRS doesn\u2019t sue people is a good start for protecting your money and assets.<\/p>\n<p>Check out more <a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/category\/irs-news\/\">IRS News<\/a> stories by clicking that link.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_map_compat\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_address_compat show-address show-address-only\"><div class=\"rank-math-contact-section rank-math-contact-address\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_opening_hours_compat\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop losing sleep over your tax situation. I&#039;m Darrin Mish \u2014 a tax attorney in Tampa who&#039;s spent 32 years handling exactly this kind of problem. Here&#039;s what you need to know. No doubt, we all have a measure of respect for the IRS regardless of any personal feelings. However, if you ever get a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[594],"class_list":["post-14331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news","tag-irs-forms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22683,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14331\/revisions\/22683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}