SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - A Sioux Falls man is out $8,000 in an IRS scam.
Officer Sam Clemens say the scammers phoned the 38-year-old victim and told him he owed the government eight thousand dollars and if he didn't pay immediately US Marshals would arrest him.
Clemens says the scammers had details of one of the victim's past jobs and that led him to believe that the call was legitimate. He went to his bank and wired money into a different account that was given to him over the phone.
After a while the man came to the conclusion that he may have been duped and called police. But by the time it was too late to stop the wire transfer.
Clemens says the IRS never makes phone calls and instead contacts taxpayers by mail.
Meanwhile...a door-to-door salesman misrepresented himself as an employee of a local cable company and was arrested for not having a city peddler's permit or a state sales tax license.
Officer Sam Clemens says the Ohio man, who does work for Dish One, tried convincing a female victim that he needed to get into the house.
Clemens say the suspect did not try pushin his way in, or try forcing his way in. She refused to let him in and he went on his way. She called her father who called police and he was found in the neighborhood a short time later.
The twenty year old man faces two misdemeanor charges.