I've gotten three calls in the past two days from people with very thick Indian accents claiming that I have been indicted for tax fraud and that it is a "non-bailable charge" which will result in me being jailed if I do not pay quickly. This is a prevalent scam these days, which the IRS has warned the public about.

Apart from the fact that I my Dad works with the IRS, (he has a special license to practice tax accounting defense in front of the IRS that most accountants don't have), I knew this was a scam because I saw the phone number listed as a scam by multiple other people on a reverse phone-lookup site that I googled.

I wanted to call back and tell them that I'm very excited to have won the lottery and that I've never won anything so special before... and act like I'm totally deaf to the concept of paying taxes...  "When will you present me with the oversize check?  Will there be media attention?  Will my name be announced as one of the grand prizewinners?" 

I do have to say, though, that these scammers have a lot more integrity and class than the Fordyce Letter.  At least they put me on hold and played the Chopin Polonaise for me.  They hung up on me four times in a row.  I guess they figured out that I just want to play with their heads, before I detach them.