[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Unrelated...

Was reading the local police blotter on line yesterday.

Fraud Alert.

Local resident reported that they received a call from the IRS (we’ve all gotten these...the IRS doesn’t make phone calls).

They were informed that they owed $7,000 in back taxes. If they didn’t settle up immediately, they were going to jail.

Oh, it was $7,000 in GIFT CARDS that was demanded.

After sending $1,000 worth of gift cards, they finally figured out that they had been scammed.

They realized that the IRS doesn’t accept gift cards.

[LouieFisk]

"They realized that the IRS doesn’t accept gift cards."
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I've heard of that scam. It's like when a bro's browser locked up on a page that claimed to be the FBI saying the had broken a whole bunch of fed laws.
The good news was that if he paid a fine by sending x amount of $$$ to the FBI via money transfer, he wouldn't be prosecuted!
I knew about that scam, too. It's just a simple browser java-script trick that freezes a page. You just shut down the browser, clean the cache and you're good to go. I had to tell the bro the FBI doesn't do blackmail (at least not that way, heh).
The scam usually looks like something along this line: