Guitarhacker
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IRS letter..... scam?
I got this letter in my email today... It's a phishing scam. I'm just wondering how many people will fall for this? I don't know about you but as a business man, I get IRS notices from time to time.... they know how to spell, and they use the US postal service to deliver the bad news on IRS stationary, not email with zipped attachments. AND... they always ask for money... not identification.... they know who I am and where I am.... they only want the money.... in addition, there was nothing in this email to indicate that they know who they are dealing with on this end........ yeah, I'd say it's a scam. Copied below for your entertainment. I used BOLD on the spelling and just plain wrong statements. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> We recived your tax return. However, we are unable to process the return as field. Our records indicate that the person identifiedas the primary taxpayer or spouse on the tax return did not provided all the required documents shown on the tax form. Our records are based on information received from the Social Security Administration. Based on this information, the tax account for the individual has been locked What you need to do Print out the attached notification and list of missing documents, fill it in, add the documents and send the following information to the adress shown in the attached notification. List of required documents: 1. A copy of this letter 2. Notification letter 3. A photocopy of valid U.S. Federal or State Government issued identification
post edited by Guitarhacker - 2011/08/11 08:16:58
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Re:IRS letter..... scam?
2011/08/11 08:59:03
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LOL I got that one as well and wondered the same thing. I have noticed that a bunch are all of a sudden coming out. It makes me wonder why I havent had many BS Spam Phishing emails then WHAM a bunch come in. The last one was from New York State Police something about Tolls or Speeding. Dont remember. Yeh scary of the thought that people fall for this stuff!!!
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Re:IRS letter..... scam?
2011/08/11 11:02:39
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I get plenty of Pfishing emails (primarily from Nigeria) stating there's millions of $$ that need to be transfered to the US (with a long story of some inheritence) requesting my bank info. I've actually replied to some of them stating that my cousin (who works for Interpol) will personally come & pick it up from them, but they never replied to any of those emails and I'm still waiting to be a millionaire. 
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Re:IRS letter..... scam?
2011/08/11 11:29:17
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more funny when you get the same email 2 times in a row with different amounts of money in..
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Re:IRS letter..... scam?
2011/08/11 12:05:25
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The creepiest one I've seen was a from a guy saying he'd been hired to kill you, but felt that you didn't deserve to die so he was asking for $ compensation NOT to execute the orders. Otherwise, or if you advised authorities, he'd just kill you. Not sure the idiot realizes the amount of trouble he is in if he is caught.
My Fiancée received that one. I'd like some one on one time with the poor idiot who sent that one - just to scare him a bit in return. ;)
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Re:IRS letter..... scam?
2011/08/11 12:18:20
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Did they provide an actual physical adress (sic) to mail the documents to?
They must have a craving for federal penitentiary food.
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Re:IRS letter..... scam?
2011/08/11 14:18:18
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The scams I keep getting are from some company saying they want money or I'll be kicked off my land! LOL
"Wells Fargo Home Mortgage ... where's our money?"
Pfft. I ain't sendin' them a penny!
They even took the scam so far as to send a Sheriff to my house and he put pad locks on the doors, but I ain't fallin' for it!
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Re:IRS letter..... scam?
2011/08/11 14:49:36
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When they tried sending those to me, I sent them back a change of address form. Now, the Sheriff goes to my neighbor's house instead.
Fun times...
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Re:IRS letter..... scam?
2011/08/11 14:56:24
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I shall burn everything from the Inland Revenue now just to be on the safe side.
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Re:IRS letter..... scam?
2011/08/11 15:46:29
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Re:IRS letter..... scam?
2011/08/11 15:54:46
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That's why I only open such emails when visiting someone else's office. While they spend their time, frantically hitting keys and asking, "Where did all of this come from?", I keep myself busy evaluating the contents of their candy jars.
Being very polite, I'm quick to notice when their verbal ramblings begin to gravitate away from their virus crisis towards enquiring what I was doing in there in the first place, or whether or not I've left anything in their jar. They usually don't have to ask me more than 3 or 4 times before I realize they're expecting an answer. It's usually at that point that I leave the room. I've found it's best to be seated at my desk, with few crumbs on my face, when an HR person comes to visit.
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Re:IRS letter..... scam?
2011/08/11 16:17:18
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Were you the one in that SouthWest Airline commercial (where all the bells & whistles go off at the office after clicking on a website looking for a new job?
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Re:IRS letter..... scam?
2011/08/11 16:20:10
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I have no recollection of that, Senator.
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Re:IRS letter..... scam?
2011/08/11 16:50:09
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Yep, it's from Nigeria, or from a wanna-be Nigerian. Oprah even did a show on it a few years ago because so many people in the States fall for the stuff.
We in South Africa are so used to it, we spot it like a spare wheel on a boat - they try to scam you on any imaginable thing. Wait till you get told you're the long-lost heir of some gold baron! Or that someone was checking you out on the net and wants to start up a business with you...
It prays on people's weakness for freebees and money for nothing. Except, there are no cheques (or chicks) for free :O)
My advice is - stay away from ANYTHING that asks for personal details in email from. If they're serious, they'll call you.
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Re:IRS letter..... scam?
2011/08/11 17:01:43
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Offers of free becan are real, though, right? I mean, it's becan. They wouldn't fool around with that, would they? There's really a Nigerian Minister of Becan who needs my help, right? Right?
What kind of a sick world do we live in where Faux-Nigerians attempt to cheat doe-eyed innocents with offers of Becan? Ok, maybe not doe-eyed, but the principle is the same. Ok, maybe more becan-crazed than innocent, but that's only normal.
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Re:IRS letter..... scam?
2011/08/11 17:12:43
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Dough-eyed, you mean... :O)
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Re:IRS letter..... scam?
2011/08/11 19:26:31
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I logged into the Coffee House and thought I was the victim of a scam, but it just turned out to be some posts from Bapu...
Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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Re:IRS letter..... scam?
2011/08/12 08:07:42
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Re:IRS letter..... scam?
2011/08/12 09:49:59
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craigb
I logged into the Coffee House and thought I was the victim of a scAM, but it just turned out to be some posts from Bapu...
Bapurized!!
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Re:IRS letter..... scam?
2011/08/12 16:28:35
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I got the best combo of phishing e-mails. These guys were clever (spelling aside).
E-mail one is your standard Nigerian scam. We need you to get money out of our country for us...yada yada. I ignore it as usual.
About a week later I get an e-mail from "the FBI" quoting the above e-mail and indicating that the group from the first e-mail was a terrorist organization and that, based on my receipt of that e-mail, they have proof that I am an accomplace to terrorism.
They say I am being watched by the FBI and will end up in prison forever if I don't help them. They order me to accept the offer from the first e-mail as part of a sting operation. I will be able to keep the money and they won't torture me for my betrayal of "our beloved and sacred country of America to who we pledge our hearts." I suspect the FBI is usually less poetic.
Needless to say I handed over all of my personal information and am awaiting my Congressional Medal of Freedom -- Canadians can get that right? :)
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Re:IRS letter..... scam?
2011/08/12 16:42:47
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Wow!!....that's like a plot within a plot.....I hope you didn't forget to mention that you wanted that in Candian $$...
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Re:IRS letter..... scam?
2011/08/12 16:50:50
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Needless to say I handed over all of my personal information and am awaiting my Congressional Medal of Freedom -- Canadians can get that right? :) Canadians can get that, if the personal information that you handed over was provided in both English and French .... 
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Re:IRS letter..... scam?
2011/08/12 20:46:20
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Mesh
Wow!!....that's like a plot within a plot.....I hope you didn't forget to mention that you wanted that in Candian $$ Becan
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Re:IRS letter..... scam?
2011/08/13 02:33:47
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I'd like to create fictitious email addresses and reply to their spam with fun things like "Thanks for your information. I'm with the CIA so we now know who you are, where you are, where all of your relatives and friends are and are simply deciding what we will do to you when we stop by to pay you a visit soon. Your government won't even know we were there..."
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Re:IRS letter..... scam?
2011/08/13 08:47:42
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Craig, that's easy enough to do. you might want to look at www.419eater.com if you enjoy seeing the scamsters get what is coming to them.... it's a site were people "scam baiters" set up reverse scams that waste the time and money of the scammer.... pretty cool stuff that they are doing. Some of the scam baiters are geniuses with the reverse scams that they are pulling off.
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Re:IRS letter..... scam?
2011/08/13 10:26:04
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All you have are now belong to us.
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Re:IRS letter..... scam?
2011/08/14 00:36:22
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Guitarhacker
Craig, that's easy enough to do.
you might want to look at www.419eater.com if you enjoy seeing the scamsters get what is coming to them.... it's a site were people "scam baiters" set up reverse scams that waste the time and money of the scammer.... pretty cool stuff that they are doing.
Some of the scam baiters are geniuses with the reverse scams that they are pulling off.
That site has some of the most entertaining reading I've run into anywhere. The guy who actually conned a scammer into providing "the most amazing pictures" is an artist without compare.
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Re:IRS letter..... scam?
2011/08/14 19:10:50
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I enjoy the Trophy room and the hall of shame..... those folks (the scammers) obviously do not have a good grasp of the English language..... based on the signs they are holding.
post edited by Guitarhacker - 2011/08/14 19:15:06
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