01/21/2025
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IRS TAX SCAM WARNING!
It’s about time to file our IRS taxes this year – and it’s also a time when thousands of people lose millions of dollars and their personal information – to tax scammers!
As a reminder, the IRS does not initiate contact with taxpayers by email, text message, or social media channels, requesting financial information or asking you to call them. Instead, the IRS will use regular mail delivered by the United States Postal Service. These official notices will give you notice of an overdue tax bill, a delinquent or unfiled tax return, and if there hasn’t been any employment taxes deposited for your businesses.
Remember, the IRS WILL NOT :
• CALL you to demand a payment method such as a prepaid debit card or gift card.
• SEND text messages or contact you through your social media account.
• DEMAND that you pay owed taxes without the opportunity to question or appeal the amount owed. (They will also advise you of your rights as a taxpayer.)
• THREATEN to bring in local police, immigration officers or other law-enforcement to have you arrested for not paying.
• The IRS also cannot REVOKE your driver’s license, business licenses or immigration status.
Threats like these are common tactics used by scam artists to trick or scare their victims into giving them money.
If someone does show up at your residence or business claiming to be IRS Agent or Law Enforcement Officer, and you are uneasy or feel unsafe, please call 9-1-1 immediately. Ask the call taker to send officers to your location to identify the person(s) contacting you. Stay on the phone with the call-taker and give a detailed description of the suspicious person and their vehicle if you can safely do so. If they leave your location, note their direction of travel, and provide that information to call taker as well.
For more detailed information on IRS Scams and steps you can take to protect yourself, please visit https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/tax-scams-consumer-alerts.
