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Another IRS Scam Targeting Veterans
May 10, 2016
   
The deadline for filing your 2015 tax returns has passed, but the scammers employing a new, highly effective technology to scam you have not.  The IRS has issued a major warning to all citizens that a new IRS scam is making the rounds and all should be aware, especially vulnerable veterans.
    
Using this new technology, typically, scammers try to scare their victims into remitting funds for a supposed tax bill. They often alter caller ID to make it appear the call is actually from the IRS (Caller ID technology purporting to be the IRS frightens most into making illogical decisions). They may even request you send a copy of your receipt for a remittance to an actual IRS office, which lends credence to their highly effective scam methodology.
   
Keep in mind, no government agency, including the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will ever request financial information from you over the telephone.
    
The IRS may telephonically contact you, but only after having sent documentation to you by mail. This documentation will have reference numbers no scammers will have access to.

   

  

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  
   
To detect scammers from actual IRS employees, according to the IRS official website, the IRS will not:

  • Call you to demand payment. The IRS will not call you if you owe taxes without first sending you a bill in the mail.
  • Demand that you pay taxes and not allow you to question or appeal the amount you owe.
  • Require that you pay your taxes a certain way. For example, require that you pay with a pre-paid debit card. Scammers will do that.
  • Ask you for a debit or credit card number over the phone.
  • Threaten to bring in police or other agencies to arrest you for not paying.

   

If you don’t owe taxes or have no reason to believe you do, do not provide any information and hang up immediately.

 

Report the contact to TIGTA at 1-800-366-4484.

  

If you owe taxes or think you might, contact the IRS at 800-8239-1040 for assistance by IRS workers.

   

Listen to scam calls below:

https://www.pindrop.com/irs-phone-scam-live-call_analysis/