The Internal Revenue Service and others continue to report on various schemes directed at persuading people to reveal personal information in the mistaken belief that are responding to an IRS request.
Here is a simple fact.
THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE DOES NOT USE EMAIL TO INITIATE CONTACT WITH TAXPAYERS.
If you get an unexpected email from the IRS, forward it to phishing@irs.gov, then delete it.
I have heard is at least one report that con artists are sending phony requests for personal information through the U.S. Postal Service on the pretext of being from the IRS. Be careful.
Note also that the IRS web domain is www.irs.gov. The web address that has .org instead of .gov does NOT belong to the IRS. It is a fraud.
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