IRS Warns of New E-Mail and Telephone Scams Using the IRS
Name; Advance Payment Scams Starting
Beware of several current e-mail and telephone scams that use
the IRS name as a lure. The IRS expects such scams to continue through the end of tax return filing
season and beyond. The IRS cautioned taxpayers to be on the lookout for scams involving proposed
advance payment checks. Although the government has not yet enacted an economic stimulus
package in which the IRS would provide advance payments, known informally as rebates to many
Americans, a scam which uses the proposed rebates as bait has already cropped up.
Read more...
