An IRS scam
By Lena Kovadlo
@lovebuglena (52174)
Staten Island, New York
December 30, 2021 6:36pm CST
Just saw this email in my spam folder:
Sender's name: IRS.gov. Actual email address clearly not from IRS.
After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $563.80. Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 6-9 days in order to process it.
...To access the form for your tax refund, please click the button below.
Note: For security reasons, we will record your ip address, the date and time...
Regards,
Internal Revenue Service
This is clearly a scam, so of course, I did not click on that CLAIM button. Wonder how many actually would.
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6 responses
@lovebuglena (52174)
• Staten Island, New York
31 Dec 21
I hope that just opening the email didn't do anything.
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@Bensen32 (28658)
• United States
31 Dec 21
@lovebuglena Sometimes it can but mostly it is the link that will really get you.
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@lovebuglena (52174)
• Staten Island, New York
31 Dec 21
I wouldn’t think they’d email anyone. It would be a letter in the mail, if anything.
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@lovebuglena (52174)
• Staten Island, New York
31 Dec 21
One thing that surprised me is that the email is not poorly written.
@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
31 Dec 21
I hope you sent that email to the IRS phishing email address. They'll take the appropriate action after that.
phishing@irs.gov
@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
31 Dec 21
@lovebuglena That's okay. You'll know if you get any of those again.
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@lovebuglena (52174)
• Staten Island, New York
31 Dec 21
I did not. Didn’t know you can do that. And I deleted these emails already.
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@lovebuglena (52174)
• Staten Island, New York
3 Jan 22
Yeah. I don't get why some people want to scam others.
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@yoalldudes (35028)
• Philippines
31 Dec 21
These scammers are getting better and better. They would pose as anything.
@lovebuglena (52174)
• Staten Island, New York
31 Dec 21
Yes. Some do it so well that people think the emails are real.
