Airwick156

I received an email this morning that says it was from the IRS. The email states that when I filed my 2010 Income taxes that I FORGOT to put my social security number and my birthday and to fill out this attachment and to fill it out and send it to them by hitting the send button and if I don't my income tax return will be delayed until I do.

Now WHY IN GODS green earth would I do something like that??? And this is the reason why I wouldnt and didn't.

1. IRS's letter head would say INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE. NOT IRS.

2. Do they think I'm stupid to think that IRS would ask for this information in an email? NOPE. They would send me a formal letter in the mail.

3. Now why would they send me this email when WE DON'T file income taxes!!!

4. If it was a legitimate email from the IRS, It WOULD NOT SHOW that it was a mulitple mailing to a bunch of people with weird names that looked like middle eastern names (mohammad....) And besides......I can guarantee you that IRS doesn't make typing errors which this had several. Along with words that were joined and not seperated by a space.

SO PLEASE as a warning to all of you. DO NOT SEND any information to them. Its a SCAM.

erstan947

Thanks for the headsup!

Maggie_1963

Do they thing we fell off the turnip truck with a half a load of bricks? LOL!

Sadiemae

The sad thing is that there are people who will do this.

Airwick156

They must think something. What is sad is there will be many many people that will believe that its a legit email and will send them the information.

emerald46

And on top of that, the IRS would never request personal info by email. They follow same privacy laws as all other legit operations.

JenniePenny

Not to mention, anybody who was owed a refund most likely has gotten it already.

alikat110

Unfortunately, there are those that will fall for this. We'll be hearing about yjem in the news!

amyjo

yes it is too bad that people don't pay attention to what they are looking at. The IRS, banks, credit cards etc. DO NOT ASK FOR INFO by EMAILS. They have all that already and would never send an email. the privacy laws we have makes them send us a letter by snail mail if needed. they don't even call you on the phone so beware of the phone calls also.

sewmuchmore

They work off of fear of the IRS, they are looking for anyone would will fall for it. Unfortunately most of the time it is the elderly who give out this info. :-(