MUMBAI ¨C In late September, a woman in National City, California, received a voice message on her phone saying she was in trouble with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over ¡°tax evasion or tax fraud.¡±
Panicking, she rang the number and told a man who said he was from the IRS: ¡°I can pay $500,¡± half the sum demanded. ¡°I could do a payment plan. I just can¡¯t pay all of it at once.¡±
¡°Ma¡¯am, you can pay $500 today itself. You can do that?¡± the man asked, adding that lawyers would look at her accounts and work out a monthly payment plan, but she had to pay half now.
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