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IRS Warns About New Variations On Long-Running Tax Scams

Source: https://forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2019/06/10/irs-warns-about-new-variations-on-long-running-tax-scams/#126518210b3f - Jun 12, 2019

It may be summertime, but that doesn’t mean that scammers are on vacation. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is encouraging taxpayers to be on the lookout for a “surge of evolving phishing emails and telephone scams.”

The IRS is specifically warning about two new variations on existing, long-running tax-related scams. One of the scams tries to gather personally-identifiable information related to Social Security numbers (SSN), while another threatens people with a fake tax bill.

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