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DEPUTIZED: Be aware of phony IRS messages

RS Ignore e-mails, Tweets

Nationwide. The Internal Revenue Service advises consumers to watch out for e-mails, Tweets, Web sites and other online messages claiming to be from the IRS.

These messages usually promise refunds or threaten penalties, which are ruses to get the recipient to reveal personal, financial or security-related information, either in the e-mail or through a Web site link in the e-mail.

The IRS says it generally does not send unsolicited e-mails to taxpayers or use them to discuss tax account information, or to solicit sensitive information, such as personal identification numbers.

The IRS says that these unsolicited e-mails sometimes get the name of the IRS and other federal agency names wrong, use incorrect grammar or odd phrasing and use long Internet address links or ones that do not start with the actual IRS Web site address, www.irs.gov . To see the link's actual address, move the mouse over it, the IRS says   Read Full Article...