07/08/2023
The Internal Revenue Service and its Security Summit partners are cautioning taxpayers and tax professionals to beware of a new scam in which fraudsters are sending out cardboard envelopes from a delivery service asking people to send photos and bank account information so they can receive an unclaimed tax refund.
The envelope has a letter bearing the IRS masthead and claiming that the notice is "in relation to your unclaimed refund."
The letter includes contact information and a phone number that don't belong to the IRS, but it asks for sensitive personal information from taxpayers — including detailed pictures of driver's licenses — that can be used by identity thieves to try to get a tax refund and other sensitive financial information.