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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. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. IRS says taxpayers are getting scam emails about ... - AOL

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    The IRS noted that the third round of Economic Impact Payments was sent in 2021, more than two years ago. The IRS said this scam is being used to harvest valuable personal information. One such ...

  6. Overpayment scam - Wikipedia

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    An overpayment scam, also known as a refund scam, is a type of confidence trick designed to prey upon victims' good faith.In the most basic form, an overpayment scam consists of a scammer claiming, falsely, to have sent a victim an excess amount of money.

  7. 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 ...

  8. 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."

  9. KPMG tax shelter fraud - Wikipedia

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    The IRS regards a tax shelter as abusive if it has no legitimate business purpose or genuine economic substance, in contrast to real loans, with money at risk, or real investments. According to Makov, although BLIPS were created on paper to look like seven-year investments, they involved neither real loans nor real investment components.