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• Identity theft is No. 1 on the IRS list of threats

  During tax season, it's not uncommon for people to be on the receiving end of misleading promises about lost refunds and free money. But these are scams. Scammers will attempt anything and everything in order to steal a taxpayer's personal information... Posted Feb 21 2012, 11:38 AM by IdentityTheft with | with no comments Filed under: identity theft, tax season, IRS, Dirty Dozen, tax fraud

• BBB warns of W-2 scam

  If you have already received your W-2 form from your employer, you should pay attention to a warning issued by the Better Business Bureau about a new identity theft scam. The scam involves e-mails supposedly from the IRS and is phishing for your W-2 information... Posted Jan 25 2011, 10:39 AM by IdentityTheft with | with no comments Filed under: identity theft, W-2s, IRS, scam, tax scam emails

• W-2s and 1099s

  Watch your mail … many “tax-time” forms contain sensitive personal information … including your Social Security number. As we reach the height of tax season, the mail is full of forms containing a wealth of personal information. Employers were required... Posted Feb 13 2010, 05:17 AM by IdentityTheft with | with no comments Filed under: identity theft, ID theft, filing your taxes, IRS, Internal Revenue Service

• Tax return Identity Theft: When the IRS is seeing double

  If the IRS rejected your tax forms, claiming they’d already been submitted and a tax return paid, what would you think? Would you accept the IRS’s assumption that some dunderhead had made an error while filing his tax forms and inadvertently entered your... Posted Apr 13 2009, 02:45 PM by IdentityTheft with | with no comments Filed under: identity theft, ID theft, filing your taxes, tax time, tax season, tax return, Turbo Tax, IRS, Tightwad Tod, Internal Revenue Service