by admin | Jul 25, 2018 | Scam of the day
As the culmination of a five year joint investigation by numerous federal agencies led by the Justice Department, twenty-one individuals were sentenced last week for their roles in a huge multinational telephone fraud operation in which the callers in India posed as...
by admin | Nov 30, 2017 | Scam of the day, Site Related
India is a hub for call center support for many companies’ customer service. It also is a center for phony IRS phone calls in which the caller, claiming to be an IRS representative, demands immediate payment of overdue taxes and threatens dire repercussions if...
by admin | Mar 29, 2017 | Scam of the day, Site Related
One of the most common and effective scams is the phony telephone call purporting to be from the IRS telling you that you owe them money and must pay immediately or there will be dire repercussions. I have been warning you about this scam for years. Often the calls...
by admin | Feb 16, 2017 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Income tax identity theft is a multi billion dollar problem that costs the government and, by extension, we the taxpayers billions of dollars each year while tremendously inconveniencing the individual taxpayers whose identities are stolen as it generally takes the...
by admin | Nov 21, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
While many of the rest of us are still receiving phone calls from scammers posing as the IRS in order to fool us into sending them money, CPAs and other tax professional are being targeted by sophisticated identity thieves through emails that appear to come from the...