email scam

[Roberts]

I just got this email (yes it included the spelling error):


After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have
determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $2839,49.
Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 3-9 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 your tax refund, please click here


Best Regards,
Tax Refund Deparment
Internal Revenue Service

[gkaiseril]

The IRS has a policy of not contacting taxpayers about refunds, balance due, etc. by email.

We could all do a big service to our clients to providing them a warning about these email phising scams and other phishing scams. More inforation is at the following IRS website page:

Beware of phishing schemes

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p4523esp.pdf

As you noted there is a spelling error. Not uncommon for a non-native english speaker. After big undersea earthquakes in Asia, the spam an phishing scames drop dramatically so you can figure where these items are coming from.

[BP.]

Thanks, Roberts. Saw your post this AM, then a client brought a copy of the email she got- just like yours. Looks very official- the IRS logo on the blue background.

This page from IRS website has info on phishing, and an address to forward scam emails to IRS.

http://www.irs.gov/privacy/article/0,,id=179820,00.html

[AZ-Tax]

My client almost feel for it...

I had a client last year call me who received an email she thought was from the IRS and wanted to know why I messed up on her taxes and she should have received a larger refund. I told her that the IRS in no way shape or form will correspond with you via email. Only physical letters. As if I have time for this non sense.

[DaveO]

They are getting bolder

I saw this a couple years ago only for a few hundred. A client called me yesterday with one about this amount.

[Black Bart]

What's the spelling error?

I just got this email (yes it included the spelling error):


After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have
determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $2839,49.
Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 3-9 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 your tax refund, please click here


Best Regards,
Tax Refund Deparment


Internal Revenue Service

I don't see/can't find it. Thanks.

[BP.]

Deparment

hard to find

[S T]

Is the error

$2839comma,49 and it should be $2839.49

Sandy

[BP.]

$2839comma,49

Other parts of the world do it this way; signals the writer isn't from around here.