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2. This tax season, look out for scammers trying to file your ...

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   According to the Taxpayer Advocate Service, an IRS internal watchdog, as of 2023 it takes the agency an average of 19 months — more than a year and a half — to resolve identity theft cases.

3. Taxes 2023: How to avoid scams this filing season - AOL

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   One of the best ways to avoid a scam of any kind is to slow down and verify everything. Scammers succeed in part by rushing you. “They’ll often demand immediate payment or set an arbitrary ...

4. Taxes 2023: How To Protect Yourself From the Rise in ... - AOL

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   “Vishing” is short for “voice phishing” and refers to the use of phone calls to scam people, as opposed to using text or email. This type of scam is on the rise in 2023, The Street ...

5. TikTok tax advice could lead to thousands of delayed refunds ...

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   The Internal Revenue Service, in an alert, said a series of tax scams and inaccurate social media advice had led thousands of taxpayers to artificially inflate their refund claims. The bad advice ...

6. IRS impersonation scam - Wikipedia

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   An IRS impersonation scam is a class of telecommunications fraud and scam which targets American taxpayers by masquerading as Internal Revenue Service (IRS) collection officers. [1] The scammers operate by placing disturbing official-sounding calls to unsuspecting citizens, threatening them with arrest and frozen assets if thousands of dollars ...

7. Taxpayers lost $4.2 million to IRS imposters last year. Here ...

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   Cortlynn Stark, The Sum. February 7, 2024 at 8:00 AM. Photography by Phillip Rubino/Getty Images. In 2023, taxpayers lost $4.26 million in IRS imposter scams. That’s according to data from the ...

8. Straight Talk: Protect yourself from IRS tax scams - AOL

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   If you are the victim of tax identity theft, contact the IRS at 1-800-908-4490 and file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission at ftc.gov/complaint. • Treat electronic information ...

9. Here's how to protect yourself from common scams this tax season

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   In 2023, the IRS received 294,138 identity theft complaints. The IRS says taxpayers who are victims of tax-related identity theft wait an average of 19 months for the IRS to process their returns ...