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2. Straight Talk: Protect yourself from IRS tax scams - AOL

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   If you are the victim of tax identity theft, contact the IRS at 1-800-908-4490 and file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission at ftc.gov/complaint. • Treat electronic information carefully.

3. Beware of tax scam emails and phone calls, IRS warns - AOL

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   If the IRS sends a tax bill to a private debt collection service, it notifies the taxpayer first. The IRS website, www.irs.gov, has much more information about scammers — search the site for "scam."

4. IRS impersonation scam - Wikipedia

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   An IRS impersonation scam is a class of telecommunications fraud and scam which targets American taxpayers by masquerading as Internal Revenue Service (IRS) collection officers. [1] The scammers operate by placing disturbing official-sounding calls to unsuspecting citizens, threatening them with arrest and frozen assets if thousands of dollars ...

5. Stimulus Scam: Do Not Open IRS Emails About a Third ... - AOL

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   Recently, however, the IRS has reported that taxpayers have been receiving emails indicating that they may yet be able to claim money from the third round of stimulus payments. This is a scam, and ...

6. 1099-OID fraud - Wikipedia

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   1099 OID fraud is a common scam used to obtain money from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by filing false tax refund claims. [1]Form 1099-OID is intended to be submitted to the IRS by the holder of debt instruments (such as bonds, notes, or certificates) which were discounted at purchase to report the taxable difference between the instruments' actual value and the discounted purchase ...

7. The IRS Has Released Its Top Scams of 2021 - AOL

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   Each year, the IRS releases its "Dirty Dozen" top tax scams that identity the tactics thieves and fraudsters use to try and con people out of money. See: Check Your Bank Account: Scammers Are ...

8. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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   • Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.

9. Trusting tax-scam companies to 'negotiate' with the IRS can ...

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   The IRS routinely warns taxpayers against engaging with what it calls “OIC mills,” so much so that the agency has named OIC mills to its “Dirty Dozen” tax scams: “The IRS continues to ...