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Warning on phony IRS notifications

Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:20 pm
by Constantine
A new phishing scam involves notifications purporting to be from the IRS informing people of underreported income. These contain fake links to the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Beware! See http://www.snopes.com/fraud/phishing/unreported.asp

Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 3:04 pm
by Harry
Constantine, in order for the URL to work you need to remove the period at the end of the URL.

I like the Hot 25 list

http://www.snopes.com/info/top25uls.asp

Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:17 pm
by Constantine
Done. Thanks! So do I.

Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:07 pm
by augusta
Thanks for the warning, Constantine.

Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:10 pm
by Constantine
You're very welcome.

(This also applies to any and all subsequent thankers, of course.)