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Change of EIN Email Scam Hitting Inboxes

9 November 2011

If you read the blog regularly, you are aware that there are a bunch of emails that pop up from time to time purporting to be from the IRS, asking you to click on all kinds of links or submit personal information. This sort of thing is a scam. That said, a reader sent me [...]

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Don’t Be Fooled By IRS Phishing Scams

11 August 2011

You have to give scammers credit: they sure don’t give up. There’s another set of IRS phishing emails making the rounds this week. I’ve seen two versions, one purporting to be from “info manager@irs.gov” and another from “support manager@irs.gov.” Both have headers announcing “IRS notification.” To be clear, both are scams and should be ignored, [...]

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IRS Reports Increase in Tax Scams

16 July 2011

There is no such thing as free money. Let’s just go ahead and get that out of the way first thing. Our Treasury does not have a pot of money just sitting around waiting for you to scoop it up (we’re nearly bankrupt, remember?) And no matter what anybody tells you otherwise, tax credits, refunds [...]

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Tax Scams Making the Rounds Again

23 June 2011

Apparently, scammers hope that taxpayers have a short memory. The EFTPS scam that was making the rounds last fall is gaining steam again. This time, the email has been tweaked a little bit to make it look more authentic. The email looks something like this: The plain text version reads like this: Your Tax payment (ID: [...]

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Another EFTPS Scam Update

16 October 2010

The tech blog at the Financial Times (FT.com) is offering some further insight into the EFTPS scam that I reported earlier. According to FT.com, the scam is part of the Zeus family. The links in the email take you to what is a real web site but along the way, a version of Zeus may [...]

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More Tax Scams: One From Canada, Eh?

12 October 2010

It seems that the spammers, phishers, scammers and schemers are upping their game these days. In addition to the EFTPS scam making the rounds, I received word that there is a phishing scheme involving the Canada Revenue Agency. The email looks a bit like this: Online Refund Form After the last annual calculation of your [...]

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EFTPS Scam Update

7 October 2010

Thanks to my friends over at Smithford Law Offices for noting that the IRS has issued a warning about these EFTPS scams. You can get more details, including a link to the warning, here. If you can’t view the post, you can read the IRS warning here. Apparently, the scam has been circulating for a [...]

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