Busted! (No, This is NOT About Dolly Parton)

@FourWalls (61328)
United States
April 10, 2017 8:04am CST
Americans can sleep easier today. The head of the "This is IRS [sic], we are calling to inform you that you owe money to IRS [sic]. This is final warning [sic]!" scamming phone calls has been busted. Sagar Thakkar was arrested in India. It is claimed that he was the ringleader of the IRS phone scams that has victims in the US numbering in the hundreds of thousands, despite the fact that the IRS has repeatedly told people that they DO NOT CALL people. A ring of call center workers was also broken up in October 2016. Kudos to the authorities in the US and India who helped arrest this person! And this reminder, Americans, you only have eight days.....
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@Courtlynn (67002)
• United States
10 Apr 17
We've gotten those calls. But we hang up lol
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@JohnRoberts (109865)
• Los Angeles, California
10 Apr 17
I would have answered the phone had Dolly been calling.
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@JudyEv (323706)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Apr 17
That is really good news. It seems really hard to get through to people to take no notice of these calls.
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@teamfreak16 (43451)
• Denver, Colorado
10 Apr 17
That's good to know.
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@atoz1to10 (6781)
• Australia
10 Apr 17
Lucky Australians haven't had this kind of scam yet...
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• United States
11 Apr 17
I got a call like that! I'm glad he was caught