Identity Thieves Pretend To Be IRS

February 17th, 2009 Rob Douglas

Online con artists are always coming up with something new.

Now they’re phishing for private information via fax – while pretending to be the IRS.

The phony e-mail arrives, pretending to be from “Internal Revenue Service,” with a subject line such as “please see the attachment.”

One e-mail still circulating yesterday had two attachments.

One looks like a letter on official IRS stationery, saying: “Our records indicate that you are a non-resident alien.”

The other is a copy of an actual IRS form.

See the full report at philly.com.

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