by admin | Jan 4, 2017 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Income tax identity theft is a major problem that costs taxpayers billions of dollars and can delay your tax refund by many months while the IRS investigates the matter. While the IRS has gotten somewhat better at discovering income tax identity theft before paying...
by admin | Dec 25, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Earlier this week, Kevin Brown was sentenced to eleven years in prison for masterminding an income tax identity theft operation that stole the identities of 130 people and filed phony income tax returns in their names in an attempt to steal more than 20 million...
by admin | Jan 22, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
We are just at the start of the income tax identity theft season; income tax identity thieves file early (and often) in order to get their fraudulent income tax returns to the IRS before the victim files his own legitimate income tax return. The theory behind income...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 11, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
In recent weeks a rash of identity thefts have occurred targeting physicians in New Hampshire, Arizona, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, North Carolina and the District of Columbia. Many of these physicians who have become victims of income tax identity theft...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 20, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently Charlton Escarmant of Miami, Florida was convicted of fraud and identity theft charges and sentenced to prison for a term of at least seven years. Escarmant stole names and Social Security numbers of more than 3,200 people from the Tallahassee Community...