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How to Scam-Proof Your Taxes
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ajc.com/business/personal-finance/how-scam-proof-your-taxes/SDhFN7trcGxTcx2bGkv9YM/
- Jan 5, 2017
Happy New Year, it’s tax fraud season again!
This may not be what you want to hear this week, but it is entirely possible the Internal Revenue Service already has your tax return for 2016. If this is news to you, and it turns out to be true in your case, you’ve been scammed. As a result, your refund could be sent to an identity thief in a few weeks, and it’s unlikely anything can stop that from happening.
Unfortunately, tax refund fraud is a reality for a whole lot of Americans. It is caused by the tidal wave of useable data that has already been (or soon will be) stolen by hackers and flows from embarrassingly shoddy information security practices at the public and private enterprise level and among individual taxpayers.
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