This morning at around 9:10 Florida time I received a phone call from an Indian sounding man calling himself Robert Thompson asking for my wife and was claiming they were from the Internal Revenue Service.

I wasn't fooled. The other day I had heard of these scam phone calls. The phone call my caller ID gave me was 415-484-8569 which originates out of the San Francisco Bay area where it would be barely 6 a.m. in the morning plus the IRS always writes and never calls taxpayers when there is a tax issue. How big a dope do these con artists think I or my wife am? Supposedly they try preying on immigrants. My wife is one, but almost 25 years back. She is Filipino but has a Spanish sounding name which has caused her to sometimes get mail in Spanish.

The called mumbled alot and could barely be understood. I told the moron outright, who kept talking while my answering machine recorded everything he was saying, that this was a scam and that he was a con artist and that he better hang up because I'll be calling the police. Then I hung up.

Afterwords I thought that if I had been wiser, I would have let him start to make his threats before terminating the call. Not so I could give the recording to the police, but so maybe a local television station could use it for a report on these scammers. Don't fall for these people either.