I've been warning about the crooks who pretend to be from the IRS for a few years now. Now, some are demanding that you pay your back taxes via an iTunes Gift Card. The federal government warned consumers in late April that scammers are singing a new tune when they're pretending to be from the Internal Revenue Service or U.S. We better add another verse: 'Oh, yeah, I'm the scam man.' 'Cos I'm the taxman, yeah I'm the taxman.'įlash forward 50 years to all those IRS impersonation calls. 'Be thankful I don't take it all,' the lyrics go. The Beatles had a song about the 'Taxman.'