Tag: IRS Phone Scam
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Five Individuals Arrested for Fraud in IRS Phone Scams
WASHINGTON — J. Russell George, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), announced the arrests of five individuals based upon criminal complaints alleging that they were involved in schemes to impersonate Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents and use the threat of arrest to obtain money from victims by falsely representing that the victims owed back…
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Scammers Change Tactics, Once Again
Aggressive and threatening phone calls by criminals impersonating IRS agents remain a major threat to taxpayers, but now we are receiving new reports of scammers calling under the guise of verifying tax return information over the phone. The latest variation being seen in the last few weeks tries to play off the current tax season. Scam…