The IRS will always first contact you by U.S. mail, not by phone or text message. Scammers may pose as tax officials to steal your money or personal information. The IRS will not demand payment via ...
Scammers often pretend to be Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents, which is successful due to most people's fear of tax-related trouble. However, the IRS never starts a case with a phone call. It ...
(WXIN/WTTV) – The Federal Trade Commission reports a spike in phone calls from scammers claiming to be from the IRS and telling potential victims they owe back taxes. According to the FTC, the scam ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The ABC 7 I-Team is investigating potential confusion over a scam warning. For years the IRS has been telling people that, unlike fraudsters, they would never call you to demand ...
Trying to contact the IRS with a tax question? You might end up talking to a robot. In an effort to keep up with taxpayer calls as it scrambles to dig itself out of a huge paperwork hole, the agency ...