WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service issued a warning this week about an ongoing tax refund phishing scam targeting students and staff at colleges and universities who have a ".edu" email address. The IRS said it has received complaints in recent weeks about the impersonation scam aimed at...
About to pay your taxes? Watch out for tax return phishing and malware campaigns targeting individual taxpayers and businesses. byWaqas March 21, 2024 Security Malware Scams and Fraud IRS tax forms W-9 email scam drops Emotet malware Researchers have warned users to be on alert, as the IRS ...
Sender: If some of the above information has raised your concern, see where the email is coming from. Scammers may use a variation of a company's email and even use the company logo as their contact, appearing as the company itself. Be sure that the sender is a person you know or a...
The IRS sent out an ominous message late last month telling company human resource and payroll departments to watch out. The agency received reports that a scam, first detected last year, has been revived and potentially could expose innumerable employees to tax identity theft. It’s a multibill...
Online ID theft is called phishing. A phishing scam involves fraudsters sending email messages to trick unsuspecting victims into revealing personal and financial information such as credit card numbers, account usernames and passwords, SSNs, etc.. Some ID theft starts with something as simple as ...
But that’s not the only tax fraud increase that the tax agency sees each filing season. So, this year, the IRS and its partners in the Coalition Against Scam and Scheme Threats (CASST) are taking new and additional actions to lessen the threats. The CASST task force, comprised of ...
Social media scams have been using COVID-19 to trick people, according to the IRS, but they have also led to tax-related identity theft. These scammers infiltrate victims’ emails and cell phones and go after friends and family with text messages that link to things like fake charities. ...
The IRS also noted they only handle tax returns -- and never "unclaimed property." They also don't reach out to taxpayers via email, text or social media regarding a bill or tax refund. What to do when you get this letter There's no need to panic should this scam show up in your...
While phone scams are most common, scammers also use email, text messages, postal mail, and other means. If you think you may have been contacted by a scammer, report the suspicious call or correspondence to the IRS. How IRS Tax Scams Work ...
"These improper claims have been fueled by social media and people sharing bad advice," Werfel said. "Scam artists constantly prey on people’s hopes and try to use the complexity of the tax system to convince people there are secret ways to get a big refund. These three credits ...