Beware! Another Fake IRS Phishing Scam

Beware! Another Fake IRS Phishing Scam

Beware! Another Fake IRS Phishing Scam

Recently, some collegues of mine were talking about another IRS phishing scam. "Phishing" is a type of onlinescam that involves Internet fraudsters who send spam or pop-up messages to entice people to disclose passwords, bank accounts, or other financial information. Variations of this type of scam have been around for years, but the scammers are getting more sophisticated. In some cases, the names and contact information of the IRS employees listed in the letter or e-mail is real.

The Franchise Tax Board was hit with an e-mail scam recently that let to thousands of desperate calls to their call centers.

The newest scam is an email that is purported to be from the IRS, but is in fact, a phishing scam. The e-mail has an attachment that asks people to fax in their social security numbers or banking account numbers or passwords.

The e-mails purporting to come from "noreply@irs.gov" include attached fake forms that ask unwitting taxpayers to fax in personal bank account numbers.The e-mail may have a cover letter from a person identifying herself as IRS public relations employee Laura Stevens, who instructs recipients to fill out the attached W-4100B2 form.The attached form W-4100B2 does not exist but is similar to the IRS' W8-BEN form. The form requests such information as the person's birth date, Social Security number, mailing address, bank account number and signature.-Zimbio

Be sure to warn your clients NOT to respond to any e-mails that ask for personal information. They should call the IRS directly, or use a representative such as an enrolled agent, CPA, or attorney to discover anything that may be occurring with their tax accounts.

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