Freedom Blog » Email Scams http://www.freedomstudios.org a Freedom Studios weblog Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:18:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 IRS Email Scam http://www.freedomstudios.org/ranting-raving/email-scams/irs-email-scam/ http://www.freedomstudios.org/ranting-raving/email-scams/irs-email-scam/#comments Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:04:57 +0000 Graham Holtshausen http://www.freedomstudios.org/?p=173

I received this pathetic email scam today:

Email Subject: Notice of Underreported Income

Email Body:

Taxpayer ID: graham-00000174073547US
Tax Type: INCOME TAX
Issue: Unreported/Underreported Income (Fraud Application)

Please review your tax statement on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) website (click on the link below):

review tax statement for taxpayer id: graham-00000174073547US

Internal Revenue Service

My Comments:

Firstly, I am not a US citizen, neither reside in the US nor have a job or business in the US, so that pretty much rules me out from being a tax payer to the IRS.

Secondly examining the link more closely (I have deactivated it in this post for safety), the link actually goes to some spoof domain that looks kind of legit to untrained users. I wonder how many people these guys will doop?

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