Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Tax Refund and Stimulus Check Fraud


As Stimulus Checks are being mailed out and directly deposited, people are trying to trick you out of your check and personal financial information. I received the email below which is obviously some sort of scam. While this one is pretty unsophisticated I am sure someone received the same email and fell for the trick. I wonder what they are referring to when they address me as, "Dear Member." I am guessing a member of the United States. You would think they would change up the email a little to say, "Dear Citizen." Anyway, the IRS is not going to contact you by email. If they were to contact you by email they would use your full real name at the very least. If you receive an email of this nature, no matter how official it may look, call your local IRS Office or go visit them in person to see if there is truly a problem. Do not click on any of the links in the email and just delete it. Chances are the email you have received is a Phishing scam trying to learn personal financial information about you to either drain your bank accounts or take out credit in your name.


Dear Member,
You have 1 unread Security Message!
Click Here to resolve the problem.
Please do not reply to this email, as your reply will not be received.
This is an automatic notification of new security messages.

Thank you.
Internal Revenue Service
United States - Department of The Treasury

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