The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued a warning to taxpayers and businesses about an unrelenting wave of tax scams targeting Americans through email and text messages during this filing season.
With the tax filing deadline quickly approaching, the IRS has issued a notice urging people to be on guard for phishing and smishing schemes in which cybercriminals try to steal a taxpayer’s information through scam emails or text messages.
“Email and text scams are relentless, and scammers frequently use tax season as a way of tricking people,” IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said in a statement.
Taxpayers and tax professionals should be alert to fake communications coming from those posing as legitimate organizations in the tax and financial community, including from people pretending to work for the IRS or other federal or state government agencies….