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In this scam, taxpayers receive a cardboard envelope from a delivery service, which includes a fake letter from the “IRS” about an unclaimed refund and asks for personal and financial information.
The IRS recently released a notice to warn taxpayers about the scam. Here’s how it works: Someone will call a taxpayer and pose as the IRS, asking for gift cards from a variety of stores as ...
The IRS said scammers are contacting taxpayers through email, standard mail and phone calls, making false claims about the pandemic-related credit that only some select employers qualify for.
An IRS soft letter is a type of communication used by the Internal Revenue Service to inform taxpayers about changes in tax law, suggest changes to their tax reporting, provide information on their reported tax items, or identify areas where it sees potential non-compliance. Unlike a formal audit letter, a soft letter is not a binding legal ...
For scams conducted via written communication, baiters may answer scam emails using throwaway email accounts, pretending to be receptive to scammers' offers. [4]Popular methods of accomplishing the first objective are to ask scammers to fill out lengthy questionnaires; [5] to bait scammers into taking long trips; to encourage the use of poorly made props or inappropriate English-language ...
Negative option billing is a business practice in which customers are given goods or services that were not previously ordered, and must either continue to pay for the service or specifically decline it in advance of billing. [1] This is, for example, the model on which mail order services, such as Columbia House, [2] and other book clubs are ...
Other fraudsters are encouraging taxpayers to search online for the legitimate federal identification numbers of employers to push made-up W-2s through the system, according to one tax expert.
• 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.