Has the IRS contacted you about a tax refund? You may have received the e-mail below. Read how to tell a fake e-mail from an official e-mail. This could save you much aggravation by taking only a few moments.
After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that
you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $268.32.
Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 3-6 days in order to
process it.
A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons.
For example submitting invalid records or applying after the deadline.
To access the form for your tax refund, please click here
Note: For security reasons, we will record your ip-address, the date and time.
Deliberate wrong inputs are criminally pursued and indicated.
Regards,
Internal Revenue Service
© Copyright 2007, Internal Revenue Service U.S.A. All rights reserved.
Looks real official doesn’t it? Well, it is not real nor official. On closer examination of the e-mail, if one places there cursor over the "click here" hyperlink on the actual e-mail (the hyperlink has been removed) you see the link leads to a domain located in Russia. Frankly, the IRS does not have a branch office in Russia or a process center.
Another e-mail with the message shows a domain registered in the country of Malaysia - again no IRS offices!.
Everyone gets spam e-mail and it looks very official but with a little effort you can easily determine if it is legitimate or not. As stated above, if you hover or cursor over any hyperlink and look in the lower left corner of your browser window, you will see the link to where you will be directed when you click on any hyperlink. This provides you with the ability to see if you will be taken to a true or official site. If in doubt, pick up a phone and call the company or organization to determine if the e-mail is legitimate or not. DON’T CALL ANY NUMBER FOUND WITHIN THE E-MAIL. CALL A NUMBER YOU HAVE FOR THE COMPANY OR ORGANIZATION.
Hopefully this will help some individuals from being scammed and having their identity stolen, confidential information obtained or phished, or loss of their hard earned savings.
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This Infernal Revenue Service is bad enough without
copy-cats! Be smart! Pass this on…..:)
That isa new low to see people do this. Sadly someone will get fooled.
I got one just like this. At first I was taken in, but then I realized something…
I’m Canadian, so why does the IRS care about me?
this could help someone… but then it doesnt stop mentally retarded people from opening their email really does it? if your dumb enough to fall for that sort of crap, then your not exactly going to be internet savvy enough to be reading this sorta stuff.
I got this E-Mail! I knew it was fake the second I read that it would take 6-8 days! HA HA Yeah okay IRS? More like 6-8 Months.
Gee, thanks for the clue
Why wouldn’t they try this?
It could very well wrok and get some people sucked in.
After all, some of the sucker type voted for bush.
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