Inside the Indian IRS Scam That Cheated U.S. Taxpayers Out of Millions

November 22, 2016

Nearly an hour into the phone call, the woman began to get suspicious.

The man on the line said he was with the Internal Revenue Service and that she owed a penalty for tax fraud. But to make the payment, he told her to drive to a nearby Food 4 Less grocery store in suburban San Diego and purchase an iTunes gift card…