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  2. How to protect yourself from scams and fraud this tax season

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    If you think you may have encountered a scam, you can forward email messages or phone numbers that claim to be from the IRS to phishing@irs.gov — but do not open the attachments or click on any ...

  3. Taxpayer woes: Waiting nearly two years for refunds after ID ...

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    The IRS faces significant challenges addressing the "increasing variety, sophistication, and evolving nature of tax scams," the report noted. Two distinct categories of scams exist.

  4. Straight Talk: Protect yourself from IRS tax scams - AOL

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    In a recent BBB Scam Tracker report, a consumer shared an example of a tax email phishing scam. “Received an email telling me that after annual calculations of my fiscal activity I was eligible ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. How to Spot IRS Fraud and Other Big Phone Scams So You ... - AOL

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    Like any other fraud, phone scams evolve and change out of necessity once the public gets wise to the scam. This means there's always a new scam on the horizon or an updated version of an old one.

  7. Is that a scam? How to recognize and report fraudulent behavior

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    Common phone scams: IRS scams: threatening legal action if you don't pay for IRS or credit card related claims. Medicaid scams: claiming you have a new card available but need to provide ...

  8. SSA impersonation scam - Wikipedia

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    Reported IRS and SSA scam calls between 2014 and 2018. Since 2017, there has been a rapid increase in the number of SSA impersonation scam robocalls reported to the Federal Trade Commission. In 2017, 3,200 incidents of SSA scam robocalls were reported to the FTC. In comparison, in 2018 over 35,000 instances were reported. [1]

  9. Scam Alert: IRS Warns of Scammers Asking for Gift Cards for ...

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    But the number isn’t an IRS office’s — it is the scammer’s. ... you can file a report with the Federal Trade Commission, ... Include the words “IRS phone scam” in the notes.