email from IRS--BEWARE

[Kauai Kid]

Don't know where to post this but everyone should know.

I got an email from IRS telling me that I was in arrears.

Nice way to start the morning.

Called IRS and they don't send out emails so someone somewhere was trying to get my info.

IRS agent gave me an email address to send the bogus email to so they can investigate.


Sterling

 

[gnipgnop]

Thanks Sterling ~ good information.

 

[bogey21]

I always get my "Arrears" notices in the mail.

George

 

[Passepartout]

My spam filter seems to catch these things. That said, phishing is on the rise and is increasingly sophisticated. Many people are taken in and simply click on the provided link instead of calling a known or listed phone number whether it's the IRS, their bank, insurance carrier, or whoever they suspect is trying to get personal information that a legitimate firm or agency would already have. i.e., IRS won't email you asking for your SS# or your bank won't call and ask for your account # or birth date. Duh!

Jim Ricks

 

[Larry]

Don't know where to post this but everyone should know.

I got an email from IRS telling me that I was in arrears.

Nice way to start the morning.

Called IRS and they don't send out emails so someone somewhere was trying to get my info.

IRS agent gave me an email address to send the bogus email to so they can investigate.


Sterling

Got the same thing which was so bogus looking with poor grammer and signed IRS with no contact name or number so I just deleted it.

 

[fishingguy]

tip off

If you look at the details or properties of the email, you'll see that these IRS emails often originate in a 3rd world country or from a free-public email acct (yahoo, gmail, etc.). That's another tip-off that they are bogus, so just right click on the email and go to details/properties.

 

[persia]

I keep getting emails for Bank Ki Moon (UN Secretary General). They are full of grammatical and spelling errors and usually about have way through change from the first person to the third person, usually in mid-sentence, and suddenly it's an aid of Dr. Moon writing.

It's almost always somebody's stolen email address in the header and a reply to a public mail server in the letter.

Funnier still, are the letters from the Federal Investigation Bureau, which read like google translate.

But here's a question, what the &^$&*$** is an ACH? It appears to be an electronic payment or something, but I am forever getting spam emails about a failed ACH. I finally just had Apple mail send everything with failed ACH to the Trash bin.

 

[MommaBear]

I have been getting similar from "PayPal"

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

I keep getting emails for Bank Ki Moon (UN Secretary General). They are full of grammatical and spelling errors and usually about have way through change from the first person to the third person, usually in mid-sentence, and suddenly it's an aid of Dr. Moon writing.

It's almost always somebody's stolen email address in the header and a reply to a public mail server in the letter.

Funnier still, are the letters from the Federal Investigation Bureau, which read like google translate.

But here's a question, what the &^$&*$** is an ACH? It appears to be an electronic payment or something, but I am forever getting spam emails about a failed ACH. I finally just had Apple mail send everything with failed ACH to the Trash bin.

ACH stands for Automated Clearing House, which is the network that clears almost all electronic interbank transactions in the US.

 

[Rob&Carol Q]

I have been getting similar from "PayPal"

haha...I got my first PayPal scam email litterally within hours of opening my account.

 

[Talent312]

Dear Western Union Customer,

You have been awarded with the sum of $50,000 USD
by our office, as one of our customers who use Western
Union in their daily business transaction.

This award has been selected through the internet, where
your e-mail address was indicated and notified. Please
provide Mr. Gary Epps with the following details
listed below so that your fund will be remited to you
through Western Union.
-----------------------------------------------------------
Gosh, I can't hardly wait!

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

haha...I got my first PayPal scam email litterally within hours of opening my account.

That probably just coincidence. I regularly get PayPal scam e-mails sent to my generic e-mail account, which is not connected to PayPal in anyway. The e-mail accounts I have set up with PayPal are ones that I only provide selectively, and I get no Paypal spam on those accounts (and very little other spam as well).