Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Tax refund scam
We need to talk about
an urgent warning the IRS has issued about a new tax refund scam. Here's how it
works. Thieves steal client data from tax professionals. Then, using that data,
they file fraudulent tax returns and use the taxpayers' real bank accounts to
deposit erroneous tax refunds. Finally, the thieves, posing as IRS or other law
enforcement, call attention to the error and ask taxpayers to return the money
to them. To get the funds from real taxpayers, thieves use various tactics. In
one version, criminals posing as debt collection agency officials acting on
behalf of the IRS reach out to taxpayers to say a refund was deposited in error
and ask the taxpayers to forward the money to their collection agency. The
other you’ll get an automated call threatening the taxpayer with fraud charges,
they’ll give a case number and instructions to call to return the refund. If
this happens to you call your tax preparer and go to the IRS.gov website tax
topic 161 and follow the instructions.
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