We've gotten quite a few e-mails on the Your Stories line from folks who've received what looks like an e-mail from the IRS, telling you that they have money with your name on it...all you've got to do is follow a link to update some of your personal information and they'll send you a check. This is a scam! Although the site that the link brings you to has what looks like an official IRS logo...it's not. Once you "update your information," your identity is stolen by the scammers who put together this fake site.
The IRS will never e-mail you asking for personal information and although we'd all like to think there's money with our name on it out there, chances are, there's not. If you get one of these e-mails, just hit delete or you can forward it to IRS at Phishing@irs.gov so they can keep track of who's trying to use their name to steal your social security number and bank account information.
This spam really never seems to end. You'd think by now the scammers who send out these "Phishing" e-mails wouldn't be having much success but apparently they still are. Whether they claim to be from the IRS, your bank, credit company or whatever, enough is enough! How many spam e-mails do you get a day? Have you had any success in blocking most of them?
