{"id":129,"date":"2005-12-02T17:11:38","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T17:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2022-01-28T22:36:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T03:36:10","slug":"irs-email-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/irs-email-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS Email Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Internal Revenue Service &#8211; IRS warns of e-mail scam about tax refunds. The Internal Revenue Service on Wednesday, November 30, issued a consumer alert about an Internet scam in which consumers receive an e-mail informing them of a tax refund. The e-mail, which claims to be from the IRS, directs the consumer to a link that requests personal information, such as Social Security number and credit card information. This scheme is an attempt to trick the e-mail recipients into disclosing their personal and financial data. The information fraudulently obtained is then used to steal the taxpayer&#8217;s identity and financial assets. The fake e-mail, which claims to come from &#8220;tax refunds@irs.gov,&#8221; tells the recipient that he or she is eligible to receive a tax refund for a given amount. It then says that, to access a form for the tax refund, the recipient must use a link contained in the e-mail. The link then asks for the personal and financial information.<br>The IRS does not ask for personal identifying or financial information via unsolicited e-mail. Additionally, taxpayers do not have to complete a special form to obtain a refund. <br>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/newsroom\/article\/0,,id=151065,00.html\">Source<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internal Revenue Service &#8211; IRS warns of e-mail scam about tax refunds. The Internal Revenue Service on Wednesday, November 30, issued a consumer alert about an Internet scam in which consumers receive an e-mail informing them of a tax refund. The e-mail, which claims to be from the IRS, directs the consumer to a link<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/irs-email-scam\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button \">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,35,33],"tags":[174],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identity-theft","category-law-enforcement","category-in-the-news","tag-in-the-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3516,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/3516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}