`IRS' e-mail likely to be scam

[BigGuynRusty]

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercuryne...191459.htm

A Snippet.:
"By Kara McGuire
Minneapolis Star Tribune
The e-mail address looks legitimate -- sent from adminirs.gov or tax-refundsirs.gov. The logos and graphics look convincingly like the ones you'd find on the official IRS Web site. And there is an intriguing reason to click the link requesting your Social Security number and credit card information: a refund. But if you do, you'll see a maxed-out credit card or a stolen identity, not the $63.60 the e-mail claims."

BGnR

[Panopticon]

There's also a couple of telephone call scams going around too.
Both of the ones I've heard begin with a recorded message instructing you to call back a toll-free number. One is for a defaulted Student Loan and claims to be from the US Dept of Ed, it isn't.
The other one claims to be from 'Income Tax Audit Division' and states you owe substanial taxes & a penalty fee on a 1099 form they've discovered with your SSN. They want you to 'verify' your SSN.

Yeah, right ::o

[Seacrest]

Oh, NOW you tell me!
I just used that IRS link to pay the taxes on the money Bill Gates and General Ndege Ngawa of Nigieria are sending me.
Any day now.

[wurm]

BigGuynRusty Wrote:
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>[snip]
>... And there is an
> intriguing reason to click the link requesting
> your Social Security number and credit card
> information: a refund.

Just how many ways and how many times do people have to be warned about this?

NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER

I have yet to see an exception to this rule.