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[Rosie]

I got an email that I instinctively KNEW was a scam. But because the 'from' email address was <refunds> I figured I's better check it out at the IRS site. The warning wasn't very hard to find.

http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=170894,00.html
IRS Warns Taxpayers of New E-mail Scams

Updated Sept. 19, 2007 — Another recent e-mail scam tells taxpayers that the IRS has calculated their "fiscal activity" and that they are eligible to receive a tax refund of a certain amount. Taxpayers receive a page of, or are sent to, a Web site (titled "Get Your Tax Refund!") that copies the appearance of the genuine "Where's My Refund?" interactive page on the genuine IRS Web site. Like the real "Where's My Refund?" page, taxpayers are asked to enter their SSNs and filing status. However, the phony Web page asks taxpayers to enter their credit card account numbers instead of the exact amount of refund as shown on their tax return, as the real "Where's My Refund?" page does. Moreover, the IRS does not send e-mails to taxpayers to advise them of refunds or to request financial information.

Updated Aug. 24, 2007 — The Internal Revenue Service today warned taxpayers of a new phishing scam, in which an e-mail purporting to come from the IRS advises taxpayers they can receive $80 by filling out an online customer satisfaction survey. The IRS urges taxpayers to ignore this solicitation and not provide any requested information. The IRS does not initiate contact with taxpayers through e-mail

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Here is a copy of the email....It really looked convincing.....
From: "Internal Revenue Service" <refunds>

Subject: Notification. Please Request your refund.

Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 03:57:51 +0300


After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $268.32.
Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 3-4 business days in order to process it.
A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons. For example submitting invalid records or applying after the deadline.

To access the form for your tax refund, please click here

Regards,
Internal Revenue Service
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The link that was provided in the email, was http://paraplan.lipetsk.ru/tmp/help.html , which was found by my security program to be a reported Phlishing site. (which I was really pleased to find out it really worked!)

[Rosie]

the email address that was between the < > was supposed to show up as
refunds@irs.gov. I wonder why it came up the other way?

[Ekid]

hummmmmmmmmm

[Ekid]

[Abe]

Time of the year to bring this to the top again.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-consumer25-2009jan25,0,6290283.story

From the Los Angeles Times
CONSUMER WATCH
Tax scams: deductions you want to avoid
New schemes pop up each year as April 15 looms. Here's the EZ form on some frauds, mainly online, that are easy to spot and delete.
By David Colker

January 25, 2009

What's worse than paying taxes?

Getting caught in a tax scam.

Every year at tax time, fraudsters come up with new variations on scams involving bogus refunds, fake audits and sure-fire methods to avoid paying or even filing taxes.

Whatever the method, the basic aim is to separate you from your hard-earned cash. Some may say the Internal Revenue Service has the same goal, but there's a big difference -- if you lose money to a tax scam, you'll still owe your taxes.

You can avoid most tax scams by remembering three basic rules:

* The IRS never sends unsolicited e-mails.

* The IRS never requests passwords, PINs or other secret access information for bank or credit card accounts.

* People who claim taxes are illegal -- and thus you don't have to pay them -- are delusional, scammers or both.

Here are examples of recent tax scams. The new ones that crop up are likely to be variations on their themes.

Income taxes are illegal! The people who make this claim generally have thick notebooks or PowerPoint presentations and use them to cite historical or other evidence that you don't have to pay taxes. Ever.

A variation is that taxes are purely "voluntary" based on the wording of tax laws.

The IRS has successfully waged court battles against these types of claims, showing that they were misinterpretations of the Constitution or laws, or simply fraudulent.

But, judging from federal lawsuits, people have paid millions of dollars for seminars, books and other materials claiming to show that taxes aren't legal.

To truly avoid taxes and stay within the law, you have to be wealthy enough to hire experts in diving through loopholes.

For the rest of us, sham claims can lead to unnecessary cash outlays or legal troubles.

E-mail -- Your refund is ready: This one cropped up over the last couple of years. It's an e-mail that appears to have come from the IRS, saying that the agency owes you an additional amount of money.

In the 2008 version, that amount in many cases was $134.80, leading to speculation that the messages were sent out from the same scammer or group.

What makes this e-mail particularly believable is that it's not a claim that you've won a lottery you never entered or that a relative you've never heard of has given you an inheritance. The IRS really does give out refunds.

But, of course, not in this case. The first tip-off should have been that the e-mail was not sent to recipients by name -- it was just spam.

The e-mail requested the recipient's credit or debit card number for "direct deposit." But what the scammer had in mind was a withdrawal.

E-mail -- IRS online survey: Who wouldn't want to tell the IRS what he or she thought of the agency?

Especially if the person doing the telling gets paid to do so.

In a scam e-mail that began circulating a couple of years ago, consumers were asked to take an online satisfaction survey about IRS services.

There were only eight questions and the payoff was $80, paid directly into your credit card account.

As in the refund scam, the victim was asked to enter credit card information, and then came a message saying, "Your account will be credited within the next 3 business days."

By then, your money would be long gone.

E-mail -- See you in court: Perhaps the most disturbing of IRS scams cropped up last year in an official-looking e-mail that appeared to be from the U.S. Tax Court.

The message said that the "commissioner" of Internal Revenue was suing the recipient for not paying all taxes owed. For additional information on the matter, a link was provided to www.ustaxcourt.org.

But the real address for the court is www.ustaxcourt.gov " www.ustaxcourt.gov .

The "org" site has been shut down. But generally, these kinds of fake pages are used by scammers to gather information to use in identity theft, or to disseminate viruses and other malware.

Who's at the door?: It could be the IRS, but only if an agency representative has called ahead. Also, real IRS agents carry agency photo identification.

But the agency says there have been cases of impostors showing up at homes and demanding payments on the spot.

If there is any question about the legitimacy of a visiting agent, even if a call was received beforehand, you can check it out by calling the Treasury Inspector General hotline at (800) 366-4484.

Label trick: This is not strictly a scam because it doesn't cheat you out of money. But it's too good an urban myth to pass up.

The Snopes.com site, which does a great job exposing online myths, has in its collection a 2006 e-mail that claims you can avoid being audited by not using the pre-printed IRS label when mailing your taxes.

Supposedly, the label contains secret bar code information that could lead to you being chosen for an audit.

When Snopes inquired, tax accountants said they had been hearing that for years from their clients, even before the myth hit the Internet. But the IRS said the bar code had nothing to do with who gets chosen for an audit.

Too bad. I thought it would protect me from claiming my scam losses as business deductions.

david.colker@latimes.com

To get more information, visit the IRS’ official website here.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-consumer25-2009jan25,0,5911088,print.story


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How incredibly evil this creature is. I'd like to tie it down and start on its extremities with a Louisville slugger and with each blow ask it "Is this voluntary because I'm allowing you to scream?!!!"

We need "Liberal" season. We need it now. We needed it 70 years ago.

When are the MEN of this country going to reach down and grab their balls and stiffen their backbones and go to the District of Criminals and do what MUST be done????!!!!

Follow my links. Read the quotes page first.
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Bend over, America, because Sen. Harry Reems wants to poke you hard in the rear. (Don't worry. It's voluntary.)

Then get ready for Speaker Lugosi to suck up your life force. (Don't worry. It's voluntary.)

And just when you think you've given enough skin, your children will be drafted into the Obama Youth. (Don't worry. It's voluntary. And they'll get cool armbands.)

Is there anybody left in D.C with the balls to stand up to these clowns? I fear not.

http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=R7mRSI8yWwg

Here is a perfect example of the geniuses we have as leaders in Congress witch is the very opposite of progress.
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