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
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 the taxpayer’s identity.
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