ANOTHER FIRST ? - A TEXT SCAM

[Lee B]

In today's NAEA Newsletter :

"Please visit www.irs.gov.confirm44id.us/ and avoid being fined !"

I wonder how people will respond to this text ?

[Jack from Ohio]

Like gullible sheep and get fleeced.  Scammers keep doing those things because they work.  Until I find a pill that restores or imparts common sense, we will keep hearing about people being ripped off by their own actions.

 

[schirallicpa]

Last week's Kiplinger Letter talks about the IRS's future corresponding via email and text.  I hope they do not.  I tell all of my clients to never ever respond to IRS email or text.  I think if the IRS opens that door it will be nothing but trouble.  Next we'll have the IRS on Snapchat!

 

[SaraEA]

And Congress, who we all know has it in for the IRS, just authorized the use of third-party bill collectors again.  Didn't they try that a few years ago and it didn't work? What bugs me is that in response to the massive telephone scam where the "IRS" calls people and demands immediate payment of back taxes, the agency has screamed on TV, the internet, social media, their website that "We DO NOT call taxpayers, or text or email them."  So now legitimate bill collectors will be calling and demanding money on behalf of the IRS. I think the scammers lobbied for the new law because it just gave their phone calls credibility.