IRS Warns of Fake Tax Software Update Scam
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) along with state tax agencies issued a warning this week about a new phishing email scam that impersonates tax-software providers and attempts to steal users’ usernames and passwords by tricking people into logging in to bogus websites that clone those of legitimate tax software providers.
For more information please see my Inc. article, IRS Warns of Fake Tax Software Update Scam.
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