What is Phishing and How to Protect Yourself
Everyone wants a piece of your pocketbook, especially cyber swindlers who send enticing or threatening messages hoping you’ll go along with their scam. It’s called phishing, and Internet hucksters use the tactic to persuade their victims to hand over personal or financial information. The information is then used to steal victims’ identities.
The IRS periodically issues taxpayer alerts on phishing schemes, which often use the agency’s logo and link to a website clone. The agency also provides a list (https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/phishing-and-other-schemes-using-the-irs-name) of scams and news releases on recent ones.
Taxpayers who receive suspicious emails that claim to originate from the IRS may forward them to the agency’s scam mailbox, phishing@irs.gov.
You can obtain additional information about reporting phishing emails to the IRS at https://www.irs.gov/privacy-disclosure/report-phishing.
Other details may apply, and you can find more information on the IRS website.
Tip adapted from the IRS.gov[I]
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[i] https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/suspicious-e-mails-and-identity-theft
