The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reported:
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The Internal Revenue Service
warned taxpayers today to be on the lookout for a new scam mailing that tries
to mislead people into believing they are owed a refund.
The new scheme involves a
mailing coming in a cardboard envelope from a delivery service. The enclosed
letter includes the IRS masthead and wording that the notice is“in relation to
your unclaimed refund.”
Like many scams, the letter includes contact information and a phone number that do not belong to the IRS. But it also seeks a variety of sensitive personal information from taxpayers – including detailed pictures of driver’s licenses – that can be used to by identity thieves to try obtaining a tax refund and other sensitive financial information.
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