Electronic Federal Tax Payment System Cited in New E-mail Scam
The Internal Revenue Service is warning taxpayers to be on the
lookout for a new e-mail scam that uses the Treasury Department's Electronic Federal Tax Payment
System (EFTPS) as a hook to lure individuals into disclosing their personal information. The new e-
mail scam, fraught with grammatical errors and typos, looks like a page from IRS.gov and claims to be
from the "IRS Antifraud Comission" (sic), a fictitious group. The e-mail claims someone has enrolled
the taxpayer's credit card in EFTPS and has tried to pay taxes with it. The e-mail also says there have
been fraud attempts involving the taxpayer's bank account. The e-mail claims money was lost and
"remaining founds" (sic) are blocked. Recipients are asked to click on a link that will help them recover
their funds, but the subsequent site asks for personal information that the thieves could use to steal
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