Why can’t the government catch these guys? That was the sentiment echoed in my inbox over and over as those Internal Revenue Service (IRS) impersonation phone scams exploded. It felt painfully slow, but arrests were finally made in India. This week, many of those scammers were sentenced for their crimes. Twenty-one members of a massive…
Now that tax season is over, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is warning taxpayers to remain on alert for phishing emails and telephone scams.
Five million dollars. That’s how much money the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) estimates that victims have lost to the most recent IRS phone scam. TIGTA has received 90,000 complaints about the scam through its telephone hotline. In March, J. Russell George, the Inspector General called it “the largest scam of its kind…
Phone ringing off the hook? It could be scammers.