Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Report any unsolicited email you suspect involves phishing to the IRS at phishing@irs.gov. Guard Against Phone Scams. You might receive a phone call from someone pretending to be an IRS agent ...
The IRS recently warned about a new scam that claims a recipient owes taxes to a bogus agency, the Bureau of Tax Enforcement, and directs how and where to pay the bill. There is no such bureau in ...
The U.S. government issued a series of stimulus payments in 2020 and 2021 to help Americans get through the coronavirus pandemic. By law, the last of those payments was issued no later than Dec ...
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. The scammers operate by placing disturbing official-sounding calls to unsuspecting citizens, threatening them with arrest and frozen assets if thousands of dollars are ...
Access the IRS Impersonation Scam Reporting web page or call 800-366-4484. Report phone scams to the Federal Trade Commission and visit the FTC Report Fraud site .
The IRS Whistleblower Office is a branch of the United States Internal Revenue Service that will "process tips received from individuals, who spot tax problems in their workplace, while conducting day-to-day personal business or anywhere else they may be encountered." [2] Tipsters should use IRS Form 211 to make a claim.
Unemployment Fraud Leading to Inaccurate 1099-Gs. One of the more prevalent scams during the pandemic has been fraudsters filing unemployment claims in someone else’s name.
Voice phishing, or vishing, [1] is the use of telephony (often Voice over IP telephony) to conduct phishing attacks. Landline telephone services have traditionally been trustworthy; terminated in physical locations known to the telephone company, and associated with a bill-payer. Now however, vishing fraudsters often use modern Voice over IP ...