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Get the Most out of your Money:

Common Tax Scams for 2015

offering the consumer refund. The IRS has a
the opportunity to
appeal the amount owed. special section on their
Additionally, local law
By Dianne Zubella enforcement will never be website (www.IRS.gov/
called to arrest someone
Bay Bank for not paying taxes. identitytheft) dedicated

to identity theft issues,

The Internal Revenue including YouTube

Service (IRS) recently videos, tips for taxpayers

released its annual Phishing and an assistance

“Dirty Dozen” ranking Phishing is a scam guide. The IRS has also

of tax scams, reminding typically carried out with increased its efforts to

taxpayers to use caution the help of unsolicited combat this type of fraud.

during tax season to email or a fake website From 2011 through

protect themselves that poses as a legitimate October 2014, the IRS

against a wide range of site to lure in potential has stopped 19 million

schemes ranging from victims and prompt suspicious returns and

identity theft to return them to provide valuable protected over $63 billion

preparer fraud. Here’s a personal and financial in fraudulent refunds.

summary of three of the information. Armed The best way to protect

most common tax scams with this information, yourself is to protect

and ways that consumers a criminal can commit your information. Never

can protect themselves: identity theft or financial give out your Social

Phone Scams theft. If you receive an Security number, use the

The IRS has seen an unsolicited email that Internet with caution, and
increase in phone scams,
where consumers receive appears to be from either always shred documents
a call from someone
pretending to be from the the IRS or an organization that contain sensitive
IRS. The caller typically
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money or the consumer’s FOR YOUR
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variations of this scam. 21ST BIRTHDAY!
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time if they don’t pay
“overdue” taxes. email to request personal list of scams on the IRS

Dodging this scam is or financial information. website.
simple. Just remember
that the IRS will never Identity Theft Remember: This
call about taxes owed
without first mailing year’s filing deadline is
a bill, and will never
demand payment without This time of year, an a few days later, too. The

identity thief typically filing deadline for this

uses a legitimate year is Monday, April

taxpayer’s identity 18, because April 15, a

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