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The emails state, “You are to update your IRS e-file immediately,” and may mention USA.gov and IRSgov (without a dot between "IRS" and "gov"). In a recent BBB Scam Tracker report, a consumer ...
The IRS said it has gotten thousands of reports of these emails coming in since July 4. The IRS never initiates contact with taxpayers through email, text or social media about bills or refunds ...
In 2023, taxpayers lost $4.26 million in IRS imposter scams. That’s according to data from the Federal Trade Commission, which received 2,847 reports of an IRS imposter, down from 3,162 reports ...
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 ...
Phishing scams can be cleverly disguised, the IRS says. For example, an email might appear to be from an "@irs.gov" email address, but the scammer will slightly change the spelling to appear as ...
• 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.
Tax refunds are often a financial boost for Americans, but they’ve increasingly become the target of scammers who can use your identity to recover whatever money is owed by Uncle Sam.
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."