Its getting to be that time of year again that we all love to hate.
No its not the six more weeks of winter that the ground hog predicted,
its tax season. Ahh tax season, the time of year I dread. Let nights
trying to get all your information together and wondering if you should
have check box A vs B or did you do all your math correctly? All the
feelings of if you make a mistake the IRS will be knocking on your door,
yeah OK so I may be a bit more paranoid of tax season than I should be
but hey what can you do. Then to top that all off ID thieves are out to
get you when you have your guard down!
Many of us use popular programs and services like Turbo Tax, or any of other great software systems on the market. Or you may go to one of the more popular services like HR Block or Jackson Hewitt. All of these are great choices, and with the increased popularity of these services it makes them ripe for thieves to try to harvest. The most common scam right now is to send out a very official looking email from one of these services and say something like, “In order to process your refund we just need you to verify some information.” This will then take you to a fantastic looking website that will have you enter person information like your bank accounts and routing numbers along with some other personal information. They will use this information to steal money from your accounts, or use it to accounts in your name. If they try to create fake accounts in your name your credit monitoring service will alert you to these activities. If you receive any of these emails do not open them! You can call the company you used that is “requesting” the information to report the scam, and to alert them to these types of emails.
The other one to watch out for is a official email from the IRS again requesting financial data. The IRS is scary and most of us will feel the need to respond to these emails. The IRS will never ask you over email for any personal information. The IRS will never contact you over email, they will always request information the old fashioned way via the US postal service. Again know that you having a credit monitoring service will help to keep you safe if you were to accidentally give one of these phishing scams your information. You just have to know that credit monitoring will only be able to protect you so far, and you have to be deligent about not falling for these phishing techniques.
I can not stress this enough, the IRS will never contact you by email, do not fall for these types of scams, even if it looks official!
Get more information about credit monitoring, credit monitoring service, credit score monitoring, credit reports Please CLICK HERE
Many of us use popular programs and services like Turbo Tax, or any of other great software systems on the market. Or you may go to one of the more popular services like HR Block or Jackson Hewitt. All of these are great choices, and with the increased popularity of these services it makes them ripe for thieves to try to harvest. The most common scam right now is to send out a very official looking email from one of these services and say something like, “In order to process your refund we just need you to verify some information.” This will then take you to a fantastic looking website that will have you enter person information like your bank accounts and routing numbers along with some other personal information. They will use this information to steal money from your accounts, or use it to accounts in your name. If they try to create fake accounts in your name your credit monitoring service will alert you to these activities. If you receive any of these emails do not open them! You can call the company you used that is “requesting” the information to report the scam, and to alert them to these types of emails.
The other one to watch out for is a official email from the IRS again requesting financial data. The IRS is scary and most of us will feel the need to respond to these emails. The IRS will never ask you over email for any personal information. The IRS will never contact you over email, they will always request information the old fashioned way via the US postal service. Again know that you having a credit monitoring service will help to keep you safe if you were to accidentally give one of these phishing scams your information. You just have to know that credit monitoring will only be able to protect you so far, and you have to be deligent about not falling for these phishing techniques.
I can not stress this enough, the IRS will never contact you by email, do not fall for these types of scams, even if it looks official!
Get more information about credit monitoring, credit monitoring service, credit score monitoring, credit reports Please CLICK HERE
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