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Tax Processing Unit
Rude Scammers
Country United States
Type of a scam Tax Collection
Initial means of contact Postal mail
Tax processing unit
Tax Processing Center
The mailer had NOTICE OF INVESTIGATION in bold letters with the following:
Form number: P-55-01
Issuer: R.M. Frone
Contact: (800) 218-1204
Hours: Mon-Fri 6am-6pm
Then it had pretty much the same blah blah blah about federal tax authorities and threats about penalties. It was also signed by R.M. Sooza, Resolution Officer.
Type of a scam Tax Collection
Letter read:
“Tax Processing Center
Tax Investigation Unit - 2B
For ****** County
Public Judgement Records
(800)564- 5689
Form Number: ######
Issuer: R.M. Frone
Contact: (800) 564-5689
Hours: Mon-Fri 6am-6pm
NOTICE OF INVESTIGATION
Dear ************,
This notice is to inform you that you may be the subject of investigation by The State of Massachusetts. This investigation may involve the alleged violation of a delinquent tax liability in the amount of $****** owed to The State of Massachusetts. Unless payment is made to The State of Massachusetts within 7 days of the date of notice, further action may be taken to collect any outstanding liability.
If your tax liability is not satisfied or you do not provide a response to notice by **/**/2021, additional penalties and interests may occur to tax liability. To avoid this, call (800) 564-5689 immediately. Failure to respond to notice may provoke the State of Massachusetts to satisfy the debt by levying property.
Resolution Officer
R. M. Sooza
(Signature)”
When I called to confirm they were not the State of MA, they identified themselves simply as “Tax Group”, which for someone young not having spoken with a state dept. of revenue, may seem like the name of a branch of the office. They admitted they were not the State of MA and “a service” that works with the State of MA on collections - this is untrue.
Did some research and reported them to AG. They have numerous ScamPulse.com complaints for lack of services rendered for money paid, and their Facebook business page has many more similar complaints. Their website is also a shell of a website and clearly a scam business.
There are SEVERAL reasons why this mailer is problematic, as well as the way they are presenting themselves:
-mailer comes as a sealed letter that you have to rip 3 perforated sides off of - like some State of MA checks and communications.
-the letter clearly obfuscates the company name and impersonates government agencies. 1- There is NOT ONE MENTION of the company name on any part of the inside or outside of the letter. 2- There is no return address. 3- There is a fake seal image too small to confirm whether for the State of MA or something else on the outside. 4- The use of “Resolution Officer” title. 5- The header which makes it seem like the letter is from a department of the county I’m located in.
- the generic name of the company that can be used in the ways mentioned above.
- scammers also use sense of urgency to cause people to not think clearly. They put a deadline of 7 days in the letter.
- while they stated “unless payment is made to the State of MA” in the letter, they then provide their number to call instead of a legitimate government agency’s contact info to take said action.
- furthermore, they are purporting that they are investigating (“notice of investigation”), and create that imagery for the reader, but change the language slightly in the full body of text to try and skirt legal definitions of scams and fraud.