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George McLellan
From:
Duluth, MN USA
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Posted 22 Nov 2007 7:02 am |
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b0b, if this is in the wrong place, please move it to where it should be.
I received an e-mail yesterday saying I had an error in my Federal Income Tax and had a refund coming. Well, I don't ever remember a refund with odd cents ($109.30) so I contacted the IRS. They told me there is another scam out there and to forward it to them and they have a task force working on these. They DO NOT send e-mails out for this kind of thing. If you get one, go to the IRS website and it will have all the information you would need to take care of it. Under no circumstances should you open it.
edit for spelling
Geo
Last edited by George McLellan on 22 Nov 2007 10:10 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 22 Nov 2007 8:46 am
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| Thanks for that. It is good to know that Internal Revenue Service isn't trying to take my money. |
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Roger Shackelton
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MINNESOTA (deceased)
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Posted 22 Nov 2007 8:53 am
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Earnest, if the IRS wants your money, They Will Turn You Every Which Way, But Loose. 
Roger |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 22 Nov 2007 11:26 am
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This is a phishing scam. The IRS doesn't send out emails like that. I've been getting these emails almost every day for the past couple of months. I just delete them.
Moved to the "computers" section of the Forum.
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Don Sulesky
From:
Citrus County, FL, Orig. from MA & NH
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Posted 22 Nov 2007 12:05 pm
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George
Thanks for the heads-up on this.
Just like b0b I've received a few of these also and wondered about them. I've deleted them all also.
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 22 Nov 2007 2:23 pm
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I get phishing scam messages every day. I used to forward them to a special phishing address (e.g. the paypal phishing address) but I've given up and just delete them. I get them from banks that I've never had an account with, from credit card companies I don't have, e-bay, paypal, etc. Along with the obvious thing that I've never had an account, is that they do not contain my name. I also get a lot of the "Nigerian scams" and just delete those too.
I get internet hoax messages from people that either must believe them or are too lazy to check them out. Forwarding the hoax messages is exactly what the originator wants people to do. One key that is in almost all hoax messages is the urgent tone of the message and a statement to "forward this to everyone in your address book" or some similar statement. |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 22 Nov 2007 3:55 pm
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One of my elderly clients received a telephone call from a person claiming to work for U.S. Customs. He said he was holding two checks, in the amount of $125,000 each and my client would need to pay an amount equal to 1% of the face amount of each check in order for them to clear Customs and to claim them. He got his telephone number and called me to see what I knew about it. I looked up the telephone number at an online reverse phone directory and found that it was a cell number in Ontario, Canada.
Just as no agency will contact you by email, neither will they contact you by telephone.
Lee, from South Texas |
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Wiz Feinberg
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Mid-Michigan, USA
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