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Tax Refund Scam, How to Protect Yourself from the IRS Refund Email Scam

May 07, 2008 By: Newbornbusiness Category: Scam

Spam is a pain and it’s getting advanced. The detectors can’t even catch the most advanced spam. The button that identifies emails as spam sometimes even lets spam you already blocked in.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the United States federal government agency that collects taxes and enforces the internal revenue laws. Some scammers used certain formulas in their emails trying to deceive their victims and convince them that they are due a tax refund, but they are really designed to obtain their personal information.

The IRS struggled to warn people about a tax refund email scam, which works like this. You receive an email purportedly from the IRS indicating you are due a tax refund, or that someone has tried to you a tax number assigned to you and deposited cash in the account. The IRS has then frozen the money, but you can get it back by clicking on the provided link. You are directed to click a link to visit a fake “IRS” page. On the page, you are asked to provide your Name, Address, social security number, etc., so your account can be accessed. The only thing that you will find after giving your personal data is that your Identity has been theft.

Always remember most of the time that you’ll never be asked for personal information through your email, not even most passwords are sent through emails, from any reputable company or in this case the government.

Do not fall for this scam, if you really are owed a tax refund, always remember that the IRS doesn’t have your email, it only communicates with taxpayers through the mail or by telephone or you can pick up the phone and contact the IRS. You can reach the agency by calling 1-800-829-1040.

Anything you receive in your inbox that purports to be from the IRS is not legitimate.

Beware thieves will always advance their scams so this one will evolve more and then another scam will be invented.

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