http://www.highaspirationsinc.com/wordpress/2007/10/govt-scams/ High Aspirations, Inc - Tech Talk Fri, 4 Jul 2008 19:15:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.6 http://www.highaspirationsinc.com/wordpress/2007/10/govt-scams/#comment-174 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:28:22 +0000 http://www.highaspirationsinc.com/wordpress/2007/10/govt-scams/#comment-174 Great post Ma, thanks for spreading the word out to our clients and more. I did a little searching myself on those IRS emails and thought I'd share. I also got a couple of those emails and noticed that they were going to a non-IRS web site but also noticed that each of the emails had a different refund amount. Getting more than one set off my scam-warning bells and the rest just clinched the deal. I went to Snopes.com, our favorite scam-busting web site, and found this - http://www.snopes.com/fraud/phishing/irs2006.asp - which shows that the problem has been around since 2006 and looks like it's making the rounds again. It's a phishing scam which means the people sending the emails are looking to capture personal or financial information for theft or identity theft. Consider yourselves doubly-warned! Great post Ma, thanks for spreading the word out to our clients and more. I did a little searching myself on those IRS emails and thought I’d share. I also got a couple of those emails and noticed that they were going to a non-IRS web site but also noticed that each of the emails had a different refund amount. Getting more than one set off my scam-warning bells and the rest just clinched the deal. I went to Snopes.com, our favorite scam-busting web site, and found this - http://www.snopes.com/fraud/phishing/irs2006.asp - which shows that the problem has been around since 2006 and looks like it’s making the rounds again. It’s a phishing scam which means the people sending the emails are looking to capture personal or financial information for theft or identity theft. Consider yourselves doubly-warned!

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