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- Coping with identity theft: imagine discovering that someone has opened credit card accounts or secured a home equity or car loan under an assumed name: yours. Consider receiving an IRS W-2 form reporting wages earned by someone else who has used your nam
- Unfortunately, incidents just like these happen to consumers--now identity theft victims--all over the country, every day. A 2003 study commissioned by the Federal Trade Commission FTC found that identity theft affected almost 10 million consumers Unfortunately, incidents just like these happen to consumers--now identity...
- Research articles 2005-06-22
- TaxBrain.com: ''IRS New Return-Free Initiative Puts Taxpayers At Risk For IRS Mistakes, Opens Door to Massive Identity Theft and is Ultimately NOT Free''
- TRACY, Calif. -- TaxBrain.com, (http://www.taxbrain.com) is issuing stern warnings that the recently announced "Return Free" initiative from the IRS could sink low income taxpayers in a bureaucratic swamp of red tape and identity theft nightmares.
- Research articles 2005-10-12
- Government Issues Warning about Identity Theft Scam Using Fake IRS Documents.
- By Christopher Clausen, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Christopher Clausen, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Research articles 2002-04-23
- Tax Watch: IRS warns of online identity-theft scheme.(News)
- Byline: Mark Battersby The Internal Revenue Service and the Department of the Treasury have issued a warning about an e-mail scheme that attempts to trick taxpayers into revealing personal information such Social Security number, driver's lic Byline: Mark...
- Research articles 2004-05-17
- IRS pegs resident aliens as new identity-theft target.(Tax Watch)
- Byline: Mark Battersby The Internal Revenue Service warned of a new scheme to steal the identity and financial data of non-resident aliens who have income from a United States source. The scheme uses fictitious IRS correspondence and an alter ...
- Research articles 2004-06-21
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- Identity theft claiming more and more victims
- DUBLIN -- For Audra Schmierer, it began last January with a letter from the Internal Revenue Service claiming she owed $15,000 in back taxes on income earned in 2003. Schmierer, 32, thought a mistake had been made. She hadn't worked since giving birth to her son in...
- Research articles 2006-01-17
- Identity theft a growing menace
- DUBLIN -- For Audra Schmierer, it began last January with a letter from the Internal Revenue Service claiming she owed $15,000 in back taxes on income earned in 2003. Schmierer, 32, thought a mistake had been made. She hadn't worked since giving birth to her son in...
- Research articles 2006-01-17
- Living the nightmare of identity theft
- DUBLIN -- For Audra Schmierer, it began last January with a letter from the Internal Revenue Service claiming she owed $15,000 in back taxes on income earned in 2003. Schmierer, 32, thought a mistake had been made. She had not worked since giving birth to her son...
- Research articles 2006-01-17
- Arrest in theft of Hanover Park man's identity.(News)
- Byline: Gene Haschak Daily Herald Staff Writer One of the last places anyone wants to get a letter from is the Internal Revenue Service, especially a letter stating you owe back taxes - for a job you never had. Yet, a 37-year-old...
- Research articles 2006-12-14
- Beware of any e-mail from 'IRS'
- The Internal Revenue Service is warning consumers to be vigilant about an identity theft operation that tries to elicit personal information from taxpayers by sending e-mails alleging they're the subject of a tax investigation. Neither the Treasury Department nor the Internal Revenue Service send e-mails to taxpayers...
- Research articles 2004-05-10
- IRS issues warning about e-mail scam
- WASHINGTON AP -- The Internal Revenue Service on Friday warned consumers about an identity theft operation that tries to elicit personal information from taxpayers by sending e-mails alleging they're the subject of a tax investigation. Neither the Treasury Department nor the Internal Revenue Service sends e-mails to taxpayers...
- Research articles 2004-05-01
- Electronic filing fraud: Latest tax scam's got legs.
- Identity theft. Stolen Social Security numbers. Falsified W-2 forms. These are the tools of the fraudulent e-filers. These are "taxpayers" who electronically file fake tax returns asking for refunds to which they're not entitled, so that they can cash in on the quick refund anticipation loans offered by the electronic...
- Research articles 2004-08-09
- Appleton, Wis.-Area Taxpayers Urged to Stay Alert to Tax Scams.
- By Pete Bach, The Post-Crescent, Appleton, Wis. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 1--Taxpayers should beware of a scheme that uses phony Internal Revenue Service forms to pull off an identity theft, warn area financial experts. The perpetrators of the...
- Research articles 2002-07-01
- Advocate targets IRS
- Nina E. Olson, the official appointed to speak out on behalf of U.S. taxpayers, has a few major gripes about the Internal Revenue Service. Among them, she believes the agency needs to better protect victims of tax-related identity theft and should get more information out to homeowners about a new...
- Research articles 2008-08-22
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