When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. IRS: Watch out for tax refund schemes that could land you in ...

    www.aol.com/finance/irs-watch-tax-refund-schemes...

    A scheme circulating on social media is encouraging Americans to claim fraudulent tax refunds by adding fake W-2s on their tax returns, the Internal Revenue Service recently warned.. Online ...

  3. Beware of tax scam emails and phone calls, IRS warns - AOL

    www.aol.com/finance/2019-08-12-beware-of-tax...

    If the IRS sends a tax bill to a private debt collection service, it notifies the taxpayer first. The IRS website, www.irs.gov, has much more information about scammers — search the site for "scam."

  4. IRS says taxpayers are getting scam emails about ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/irs-says-taxpayers-getting-scam...

    You will receive a tax refund of $976.00 , We will process this amount once you have submitted the document we need for the steps to claim your tax refund. Sender : INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE"

  5. IRS impersonation scam - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_impersonation_scam

    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. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

    help.aol.com/articles/identify-legitimate-aol...

    • Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.

  7. Overpayment scam - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpayment_scam

    An overpayment scam, also known as a refund scam, is a type of confidence trick designed to prey upon victims' good faith.In the most basic form, an overpayment scam consists of a scammer claiming, falsely, to have sent a victim an excess amount of money.

  8. 1099-OID fraud - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1099-OID_fraud

    1099 OID fraud is a common scam used to obtain money from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by filing false tax refund claims. [1]Form 1099-OID is intended to be submitted to the IRS by the holder of debt instruments (such as bonds, notes, or certificates) which were discounted at purchase to report the taxable difference between the instruments' actual value and the discounted purchase ...

  9. Tax Season, Scam Season: How to Avoid the Fake Refund Cons - AOL

    www.aol.com/2012/01/06/tax-season-scam-how-to...

    Uncle Sam isn't the only one looking to collect from taxpayers this year: A rapidly growing number of Internet scammers are also using the guise of the IRS to siphon money out of consumers ...