Tax Scammers Are Multi-National
Posted by taxguru on February 8, 2018
Tax Season is also Scammers Season. A number of clients have told us about receiving phone calls from people claiming that the police were coming for them due to tax evasion charges. A few days ago, we received a couple of those calls, with a robotic voice and each with different Caller ID info, making the same claim. We didn’t waste time calling them back, but I did block their numbers. I’m sure, just as with many similarly reported scams, they would have demanded payment of the fictitious taxes via some kind of gift cards, which should be a dead tip-off to everyone that this is a huge con job.
Earlier today, I was watching the latest episode of The Checkout, a very funny consumer protection show from Australia. Illustrating that the phone scammers we have been fighting against here in the USA are pulling the exact same tricks in other countries, it has this segment showing a sweet little old lady purchasing iTunes gift cards in order to pay off a phony tax debt.
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