by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 11, 2026 | Scam of the day
For years scammers have posed as the IRS in emails, text messages and phone calls luring people to make payments or provide personal information that leads to identity theft. Often these emails and text messages may contain links or QR codes that when clicked on or...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 7, 2026 | Scam of the day
We are still in the early days of tax season, but scammers are already busy calling people to scam them. The IRS recently issued a warning about scammers telling their targeted victims that they are from the “Tax Resolution Oversight Department” or the...
by admin | Sep 4, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
I have been warning you for years about phony IRS telephone calls by which a scammer, posing as an IRS agent calls you and tells you that unless you send a payment immediately by wired funds, credit card, iTunes card or some other form of immediate payment that you...
by admin | Jun 25, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
For years now I have been warning you about phone calls from scammers posing as IRS agents demanding immediate payments for unpaid taxes. I continue to warn you about these scams because they continue to work. According to the IRS, thousands of victims have paid...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 1, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
A call from the IRS demanding that you pay overdue taxes is certainly a nightmare, but that is what many people are experiencing throughout the country. Generally, the way the scam works is that you get a telephone call from someone purporting to be from the IRS...
