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IRS Scam Emails May Put Your Info at Risk

28 September 2009

By now, you have to have received one of the scam emails purporting to be from the IRS with the subject line: “Notice of Underreported Income.” I’ve received 59 of them just since September 18, 2009. Persistent little spammers. But if you’re smart or if you follow me on twitter (not that those things are [...]

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Beware of Tax Refund Scams

12 May 2009

I just received the following email with the subject line “Confidential Information” in my inbox: The attachment was a form which requested a long list of information including: Billing Address Social Security Number Mother’s Maiden Name Drivers License Social Security Number Phone Number Credit Card Number with Signature Panel Code and Expiration, plus PIN Bank [...]

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Tax Court Warning

9 March 2009

The US Tax Court has received reports about an e-mail allegedly sent by a member of the Tax Court’s practitioner bar. This is NOT a legitimate email. If you do not have a case pending before the US Tax Court, the Court will not contact you via email. The Tax Court has advised that if [...]

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Scams, Schemes and Tomfoolery: Be Careful With Your Tax Rebate!

14 May 2008

I’ve posted before that there are NO plans in Congress to distribute monthly stimulus payments or rebates or bonuses to taxpayers. Nonetheless, I continue to receive emails from concerned readers about ads touting such a plan (I’ve seen one myself). These ads are the product of private companies: this information is NOT from the IRS, [...]

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Beware of Fresh Tax Scams!

28 January 2008

Scammers are at it again. I just received this email (above) earlier today which leads to a fairly official looking web site here. Be advised that this is not a legitimate email and this is not a legitimate web site. The site has as its source, cjpowers.com, a web site owned by Christoper Powers of [...]

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I Guess Scammers Don’t Read My Blog.

10 October 2007

I just received the following email with the header “Get Tax Refund on your VISA or MasterCard Now!” in my email today: After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $135.50. Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 6-9 [...]

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The IRS Doesn’t Care What You Think.

29 August 2007

Okay, maybe they do care (maybe a little), but they certainly aren’t going to pay you for your opinion. The IRS is warning about a new phishing scam involving an email to taxpayers purporting to issue a tax credit in the amount of $80 in exchange for completing an online survey. It’s not going to [...]

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Re: You’re Being Investigated for Tax Fraud

4 June 2007

The IRS wants you to understand that you’ll never actually see that message in a subject line from IRS. It’s the newest scam to target taxpayers. Taxpayers have reported the receipt of an email allegedly from “IRS Criminal Investigation” claiming that an investigation is underway for filing of a false return or other complaint. The [...]

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Go Phish.

14 March 2007

As tax day creeps even closer, the IRS reminds you that their web site is http://www.irs.gov. That’s right, .gov. Not .com, .edu, .org, .net or any other variation on a theme. And exercise caution with respect to emails purporting to be from IRS. As the IRS has announced before, it will never send you an [...]

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The Dirty Dozen.

24 February 2007

No, no Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine or Charles Bronson here. It’s the IRS’ annual Dirty Dozen:  tax schemes to avoid.  The top schemes to avoid for 2007 (the list for 2006 is here), many of which have already been noted on this site, are: 1. Telephone Excise Tax Refund Abuses. 2. Abusive Roth IRAs (specifically [...]

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