Email Scams

The Internal Revenue has issued several recent consumer warnings on the fraudulent use of the IRS name or logo by scammers trying to gain access to consumers’s financial information in order to steal their identity of assets.  A popular scams include phony e-mails which claim to come from the IRS and which lure the victims into the scam by telling them that they are due a tax refund.  The IRS periodically alerts taxpayers to, and maintains a list of,  schemes using the IRS name, logo or Web site clone. If you’ve received an e-mail, phone call or fax claiming to come from the IRS that seemed a little suspicious, you just may find it on this list.