Warning: Stimulus Check Scam Reported
As Americans receive their economic stimulus checks, Internet fraudsters are already looking to swipe them.
The FBI is warning consumers to be on the lookout for E-mails such as the following, which purport to be from the Internal Revenue Service but are actually attempts to purloin sensitive information:
Over 130 million Americans will receive refunds as part of President Bush program to jumpstart the economy.
Our records indicate that you are qualified to receive the 2008 Economic Stimulus Refund.
The fastest and easiest way to receive your refund is by direct deposit to your checking/savings account.
Please follow the link and fill out the form and submit before May 10th, 2008 to ensure that your refund will be processed as soon as possible.
Submitting your form on May 10th, 2008 or later means that your refund will be delayed due to the volume of requests we anticipate for the Economic Stimulus Refund.
To access Economic Stimulus refund, please click here.
Do not click there. The IRS never "initiate[s] taxpayer communications via E-mail," the FBI says.
If you do receive such an E-mail, you can file a complaint with federal authorities here.
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Did not get stimulus refund due to oweing IRS
Stimulus refunds are to given to tax payers as a jump start for the economy.
Many people may owe the IRS, in which will not receive a refund. This will not allow those people to be part of economic stimulus, which is not understandable. The stimulus refund due to the economy should be given to everyone that file 2007 taxes and if a person owes the IRS he/she should still get the stimulus refund. But thats not happening. So is the Stimulus Refund for every tax payer as a jump start for the economy? The answer is NO.
Use the money you owe
Tanja, think about it; now you don't owe the IRS. Use that money to stimulate the economy...
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Stimulus Check Scam
I received the scam email that was suppose to be from the IRS. I did not open the email because I know the IRS does not send these types of emails.
May 08, 2008 19:25:01 PM [permalink] [report comment]