Posts Tagged ‘IRS scams’

Tax Help Alert: How to Protect Yourself as Zeus Trojan Hides Under IRS Name! Again!

Monday, October 25th, 2010

The Zeus Trojan attacks again!
According to PC1News.com, taxpayers received fake email messages from the IRS which inform them that the tax payments they made were rejected. Then the taxpayer would be redirected to the malicious website where users would have to enter the private information. The Zeus Trojan then saves this sensitive information for whatever purposes they wish.
Wanting to learn more, our tax resolution team went on to Snopes.com to
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Identity Thieves Get Creative By Posing as IRS Agents in Emails

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

I received a virus in my email inbox recently from someone that looked like they were working for the IRS, but was in actuality a scam artist. Check out the latest deception method to obtain personal information from taxpayers like you:
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From: Internal Revenue Service [mailto:no-reply@irs.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 7:32 AM
To: TRS
Subject: Notice of Underreported Income
Taxpayer ID: michael-00000174073547US
Tax Type: INCOME TAX
Issue: Unreported/Underreported Income (Fraud Application)
Please review your tax statement on
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Don’t let a false IRS email wipe you out.

Friday, September 26th, 2008

My recent appearance on the WealthTV’s The Big Bizz Show had Russ, Sully and I realizing that IRS scams not only can catch you, but the experts too. As a Tax expert I have been dealing with the IRS and taxes for 11 years but even I am not immune to the IRS scams out there. Just the other day I received an email, complete with IRS logo saying if you click here we have $83 that
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