That’s why I make sure I have everything ready to file electronically when they start accepting them.
This young lady’s tax prep people filed electronically for her. The damage had been done.
A friend who had massive identity theft a few years ago while they lived in apartment in San Francisco for a few months waiting the completion of their new home.
Someone had the mail box master key in the apartment.
They got their credit card #’s and social number when our friends mailed a quarterly tax payment in.
This friend was told then that the number one illegal entry the identity theft people have is via the mail and when you had your credit card over to a waiter to pay for a meal, and he/she/it disappears.
So we don’t pay our quarterly taxes via our mail box any more. They get dropped into the slots at the local post office.