Spam is infuriating. Porn and solicitations are bad enough but it’s even more infuriating when it targets good people and their livelihoods. The newest spam in my box is an email claiming to be from the AICPA. The AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) is a real organization with some pretty cool folks. To…
There is yet another Internal Revenue Service (IRS) email scam making the rounds, this one focusing on your tax refund. It is not a legitimate email from IRS. Here’s what it says: After the last annual calculations of your financial activity we have concluded that you are eligible to get a tax refund of $464.You…
With tax season ramping up, tax scams are on the rise. Scams aren’t limited to in person scams; online scammers are in on the action, too. The latest tax-related scams to make the rounds might have landed in your inbox as early as last month but they’re still going strong; I received three just this…
Yes, it’s another spammy email purporting to be from the IRS. This one has, as its subject, “IRS-SUBJ1” and claims to be from the IRS Tax Notification Department (support@irs.gov) though the IP address appears to actually be located in the Republic of Korea. The email says: Dear Taxpayer! You are encouraged to pay a penalty…
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…
Here we go again. About two weeks ago, I reported that a new version of bogus IRS email was making the rounds with a notice about EINs and Home-care Service Recipients. Now, there’s another version – and this one may trap a few unsuspecting taxpayers since the wording is a bit more sophisticated than prior…
Just a few months after I reported seeing a bump in scam e-mails purporting to be from the IRS, a new version is making the rounds. The new version is very similar to the prior version. As before, the header is a variation on Federal Tax payment canceled or Your Federal Tax Transaction. The ones…
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,…
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…
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 reads like this: Your Tax payment (ID: 30749894123088), recently from your checking account was canceled…