<prompt> Human: I received multiple voicemails this week from scammers posing as an IRS employee threatening to file a lawsuit against me. I should have recognized this was a scam!! The voicemail went : this is Internal Revenue Service the reason of this call is to inform you that IRS is filing lawsuit against you to get more information about this case file please call immediately on our department number 413-252-2505 I repeat 413-252-2505 thank you...I called the number back and after a few seconds the recording began: hello thanks for calling the international revenue services how may I help you? Just as I started speaking, the message continued ...hello...hello can you hear me???And just like that I replied , Yes maam I can hear you fine The line was silent and I replied, hello!?? Can you hear me? No answer.. just a voice recorder on the other end.I called back and ... NOTHIN it wouldnt connectContact TIGTA to report the call. Use their IRS Impersonation Scam Reporting web page or call 800-366-4484.Report it to the Federal Trade Commission. Use the FTC Complaint Assistant on FTC.gov. Please add IRS Telephone Scam in the notes.If you think you might owe taxes, call the IRS directly at 1-800-829-1040.Avoid e-mail phishing attempts  <response>: Thanks for posting this. This happened to me a year ago and its the only scam Ive ever actually almost falling for. Had to call the IRS to make sure that it actually wasnt them because it was so convincing. Got a funny story out of it though: after I confirm that it was fake from the IRS I called the number back and ended up having them on the phone for about an hour well I pretended to fumble with Western Union. After I accidentally got the recipients information wrong for the 10th time, the dialogue finally broke down, and the agent cursed me out and hung up on me. So naturally I called him back and got someone else. I did this about a half dozen times before they started recognizing the number or blocking me or something. So by the end of all this I was more of noxious than the scammers and they were blocking my calls. I got a good laugh out of that. And yes at the time I had too much free time on my hands. 