Five individuals have been arrested in Miami, Fla., for allegedly making telephone calls in which they impersonated Internal Revenue Service Agents. The five allegedly threatened the IRS would arrest the call recipients unless they wired money to pay off the purported amounts they owed. The charges were filed in federal courts in three states. The individuals charged were as follows: Yaritza Diaz and Roberto Caballero in the U.S. District Court for Minnesota; Arnoldo Mirabal in the Northern Texas district court; and Jennifer Nunez and Dennis Caballero in the district court for Eastern Arkansas.
All five have been charged with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud involving $2 million in schemes and 1,500 victims.
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration alleged the callers threatened victims with arrest and used other means of intimidation to persuade them to wire money through MoneyGram, Walmart–2–Walmart, and other wire services.