The IRS Sent Me Email, Or Did They?

By Flexo on Saturday, September 30, 2006 in Scams, Taxes
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I just found this in my inbox (for an email address that wouldn’t be used for anything official):

Subject: IRS Notification – Please Read This .
From: Internal Revenue Service

After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $63.80. Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 6-9 days in order to process it.

A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons. For example submitting invalid records or applying after the deadline.

To access the form for your tax refund, please click here

Regards,
Internal Revenue Service

Needless to say, I didn’t click there. If I had, I would have been taken to a website on a server named arcdoors.com. The whole thing sounds pretty phishy too me.

You would be surprised, intelligent people fall for these things all the time. Out of curiosity, I clicked on the link they sent. As you can see if you click on the thumbnail below, the site looks legitimate. Don’t fall for this scam.

By the way, you know this can’t be legitimate because the scam email promises to process the request in 6-9 days. The real IRS is not nearly as efficient as the scammers and wouldn’t be able to make any such guarantee.

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By Flexo on Saturday, September 30, 2006 at 1:02 am

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  1. Comment #1 by James (reply)
    September 30th, 2006 at 12:22 pm

    That’s neat, I use the Web Developer toolbar and StumbleUpon as well. It looks like you’re missing the adblock extension though. It works well for blocking annoying website ads, though I still see a couple on this website :P

  2. Comment #2 by Flexo (reply)
    September 30th, 2006 at 12:41 pm

    I do have Ad-Block Plus. :-) It’s the icon to the left of the address bar.

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