Tax refund fraud

[ILLMAS]

Something you need to see:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2012/03/20/ac-kaye-refund-robbery.cnn

[Jack from Ohio]

Something you need to see:

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[ILLMAS]

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[schirallicpa]

A real eye-opener. I never subscribed to any debit card programs. I am not surprised.

Question: if many taxpayers do not have bank accts and need debit cards for their tax refund, how do they cash their pay checks? Besides, I thought Wal-mart would cash anybody's check.

[joanmcq]

On another board, a FL preparer said this was rampant down there; he had many ID theft cases where his clients had already had returns filed under their SSNs. The clients have to paper file after reporting the ID theft and get the ID theft PIN. After that, their SSN(s) can't be used without the PIN.

This report is from FL too.