Tax E-mail Fraud
January 10, 2010 by The Frugal Home
Filed under Personal Finance, Taxes
Your spam account is top of the line, and you have come to recognize the junk mail you recieve on a regular basis. E-mail is so widely used and spam detectors are refined to a tee. So when that e-mail came in from the IRS saying that you had underreported some income, you opened it and clicked right on the associated link without thinking. The IRS wouldn’t give you a virus so you didn’t even scan it. Unforutnately you just downloaded a Trojan horse onto your computer, and someone is soaking up all your personal information as we speak.
It’s your worst nightmare and it is disguised as someone we can trust. These e-mails have been circulating for about a month now, please do not be fooled. The IRS will not send unsolicited mail to inform you of our tax account. They will use more stable means such as a telephone, but mainly they will contact you through snail mail, the post office for those who have erased that communication from your mind. Do not open these e-mails and if you do, do not go to the attached site.
Visit the site below to get more detailed information about the virus, and what to do if you think you have received one.
http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=213862,00.html?portlet=6
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