Beware This Incredibly Silly—But Still Effective—Tax Scam

Beware This Incredibly Silly—But Still Effective—Tax Scam

It’s almost Tax Day, which also means it’s peak tax fraud season. The Internal Revenue Service has played some epic games of cat-and-mouse with phone and online scammers over the past 10 years, but the latest scamming trend for 2018 has a particularly devious twist. Here’s how it works: Attackers use a taxpayer’s stolen identity …