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Community: IRS Scam is back…Union City PD wants to warn the community.

Union City Dispatchers have received calls from Union City residents reporting calls from the IRS. We want to alert our community that these calls are a "scam".

The scam consists of an “agent” calling victims saying they owe money to the IRS. The “agent” demands the money be paid promptly by a pre-paid debit card. If the victim refuses, the “agent” threatens to call the police to have the victim arrested. It is not known if the con artists are working in the Union City area. In some cases, the phone number on caller ID has been of official government agencies, suggesting that they are using sophisticated computer software programs to disguise their ID and appear official.

If you receive a call regarding taxes owed, we encourage you to do the following:

- If you know you owe taxes or think you might owe taxes, call the IRS at 1-800-829-1040. The IRS employees at that line can help you.

- If you know you don’t owe taxes or have no reason to think that you owe any taxes (for example, you've never received a bill), then call and report the incident to the Treasury Inspector General at 1-800-366-4484.

Report a phone scam at https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/contact_report_scam.shtml

For more information on the “IRS Telephone Scam”, visit the Internal Revenue Service website at https://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/IRS-Warns-of-Pervasive-Telephone-Scam