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IRS Issues New Warning On Scams Targeting Students And Parents For Back To School Season
Source:
forbes.com
- Aug 23, 2016
With back to school season in full swing, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued a new warning for taxpayers to be particularly vigilant for scammers looking for opportunities to take advantage of students and parents.
In particular, the IRS reminds taxpayers to be on the lookout for IRS impersonators calling students and demanding that they wire money immediately to pay a fake “federal student tax.” There is no such tax.
The lack of such a tax hasn’t kept scammers from targeting students, including becoming aggressive and threatening to report students and their families to the police if they do not immediately wire money via MoneyGram or other untraceable method. The callers generally have some piece of information that makes the call seem legit. That information might be the name of the student’s school or info that is designed to make the student feel like the caller is a real authoritative figure. Sometimes, if the student hangs up on the caller, the caller follows up with spoofed caller-ID information advising that 911 or the U.S. Government is calling. It’s all fake.
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