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| Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Beautiful British Columbia, Canada
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | IRS notification scam Just received this email; This isn't a domain scam, but it's a serious one so I thought I'd post it here in case anyone else receives this email. It says there's a mistake on your income tax filing this year, and it includes attached documents you're supposed to fill out and return to them. It's a scam to get your personal information. Here's the email, and afterwards I'll list a few reasons you can easily tell it's a scam:
1 - No official letterheads, logos, addresses or documents. 2 - I'm in Canada, and this email is about Income Tax filings in the US 3 - A half dozen poor spelling errors, and amateur language rather than professional legal language. 4 - Bogus email address of sender, not an official government email address. 5 - Non-secure method for sending personal information... they just ask you to fill it in and send it, with no special security or password etc. These forms come as attached documents... DO NOT OPEN THEM. 6 - It says 'Internal Revenue Source' instead of 'service'. Here's a link to it on Scamtrends.com: http://www.scamtrends.com/tag/depart...evenue-source/ WARN YOUR FRIENDS AND RELATIVES IN THE NON-DOMAINER WORLD, SO NO ONE GETS SCAMMED!
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