Posted on 07/04/2023 6:47:48 AM PDT by CFW
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued a warning to taxpayers about a new scam mail scheme that attempts to trick people into believing the government owes them money.
“The new scheme involves a mailing coming in a cardboard envelope from a delivery service,” the IRS said in a statement on July 3.
Inside the cardboard envelope is a letter on IRS masthead while fraudulently claiming that the notice is “in relation to your unclaimed refund.”
While dangling the prospect of obtaining unclaimed tax refund dollars, the letter asks taxpayers to provide sensitive personal information, including detailed photographs of drivers’ licenses. The data that the scammers are trying to obtain can be used by thieves to try and obtain a tax refund or other sensitive financial information.
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Greed will bite you on the ass every time. If it’s too good to be true, it probably is.
Useful info. Will discuss with elderly mother. She is sadly gullible in her advanced years.
Well, the government DOES owe me money. They just don’t want to admit it. 😉👍💰
“She is sadly gullible in her advanced years”
We are 72 and are both still sharp (if I do say so myself — maybe I’m deluded!). But I worry about loss of faculties and becoming gullible as we age.
Can our financial institutions be instructed to not release large amounts of money without first checking with the customer and named fiduciaries for approval?
My 94 year old Mother is very wary of anything like this. I give Judge Judy credit for this. Mother watches every day.
I get emails about a Fedex package on a email account I never use to buy things, all the time ,LOL
Good idea to check with your financial institutions.
A good defense to a wide range of scams is to freeze your credit.
Of course if the income tax were repealed and replaced with a national retail sales tax then this sort of scam would be less effective. But it’s almost as if the sadists in Congress want this to happen, along with all the other abuses possible under the tax code.
Crap like that goes in the trash, We file first day we can, and have our refund days later.
“then this sort of scam would be less effective”
Are there any people on earth more clever than scammers? As soon as you shut down one scam, a dozen more pop up.
We are in for many “Deep Fake” scams in the upcoming years.
It would seem that if the ‘real IRS’ and PTB don’t deal with this, it seems we’ll soon hit the stage where anything received by the IRS will just get tossed out. If they ever show up, people will just say “I’ve gotten so much that says ‘IRS’ on it that it became impossible to differentiate between what was legit and what was a scam.”
I had a torrent of emails saying if I didn’t provide McAffie (this is the way they spelled it) your “account would be suspended!!!” LOL! I don’t even use McAfee.
“This is the very last time we are emailing you about this!” GOOD!
Was forced to watch it in the dentist waiting room. Truly mind-numbing.
I deal with the IRS every month sending in income taxes for my employees.l, Quarterly’s, etc. I’ve seen just about everything the IRS throws at you. No cardboard letters asking for personal info. They HAVE every piece of financial information and I’m sure some personal things unrelated to finances. They don’t need any of that.
Yeah, it is amazing to me that we still have to file a return. They know where every penny is.
Just another reason to abolish the IRS. See tagline.
But, not always.
For decades my wife has done our taxes, primarily using TurboTax. I stayed away since she is a professional tax adviser. I do the engineering stuff, she does the money.
This last submittal surprised us both. IRS came back with a letter within days of our filing saying that there was an error. An error in our favor. >$90K.
Uh? What the SH**? Normally, we pay a modest amount (i.e., why give them $$ ahead of time? ).
The next week we got the check. Cashed it.
Always check before tossing into the trash. Yeah, most likely a scam. But, check.
“It would seem that if the ‘real IRS’ and PTB don’t deal with this, it seems we’ll soon hit the stage where anything received by the IRS will just get tossed out. If they ever show up, people will just say “I’ve gotten so much that says ‘IRS’ on it that it became impossible to differentiate between what was legit and what was a scam.””
It is much the same as fake jury notices being sent by email. The emails state you have missed jury duty and must pay a fine, but first you need to send in all your personal information to verify you are really who you think you are. People fall for those!
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