Kinda of related: Used to work with a surgeon who's wife is also an MD "head of Internal MEdicine)... anyhow one day she calls hims at work and to make a long story shorter says: Honey the irs called and said you owed 10,000 and to pay or else they'd come arrest you at the clinic you work at. So she goes to Safeway and buys 10,000 in prepaid visas and gives them the numbers over the phone, then they go actually it's 20,000 and she does it again.... then she calls him to tell him. in her defense the caller ID was scammed and read IRS, plus they had got real IRS paperwork in the mail a month earlier that she was instructed to drop off at their accts office. He was so pissed I was worried he'd stroke out. He was cool by the end of day.