Tax Guru-Ker$tetter Letter
Saturday, September 01, 2007
Email Tax Scams
Snopes.com has these notices about recent fake IRS emails floating around trying to obtain personal info from unsuspecting folks, aka phishing. I haven’t received any of these myself because I am a strict user of MailWasher to purge my email accounts of spam and scams before bring anything into my main Eudora email; but I have received some emails from readers who did receive some of these fake IRS emails.
E-mail from the IRS offers $80 to those who complete "member satisfaction surveys.
E-mailed IRS notice claims the recipient is eligible for a tax refund.
IRS has also put out another news release on these kinds of scams.