by admin | Apr 15, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Today, April 15th is the usual deadline for filing your federal income tax return, however, as many people know, if the 15th falls on a weekend, the filing deadline is pushed back to the next Monday. If April 15th is a holiday, the filing date is also pushed back....
by admin | Feb 22, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
For the last six months in particular the IRS and the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration have been warning the public about scams in which scammers pose as IRS agents calling unsuspecting taxpayers and threatening them with fines, penalties and even...
by admin | Jan 3, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Mark Twain once said that the opposite of “progress” was “Congress” and it is hard to disagree with him when you consider the law recently passed by Congress requiring the IRS to use the services of private collection agencies to collect...
by admin | Apr 12, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
As we approach the April 15th deadline for filing income taxes, it is a good time to look at a scam involving a company that fraudulently promised to reduce the tax debts of many Americans. In my February 11, 2013 Scam of the day, I told you about American Tax Relief...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 27, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently the Senate Special Committee on Aging held a hearing on the infamous Grandparent scam, which occurs when a scammer calls an elderly person posing as their grandchild who has been involved in some sort of emergency and needs the grandparent to wire money to...