Somebody with little understanding of English sentence structure and vocabulary is pretending to represent the IRS. The scammers are warning you that someone has tried to use your credit card number to "pay some taxes." You are then directed to a link where, before the scammer's account was terminated, you were presumably asked to provide personal information such as credit card and Social Security numbers.
The IRS header and sidebars look legitimate. They were likely copied directly from the IRS website. The text in the middle section is less convincing. First of all, the writer can't decide if his phony organization is called the "Internal Revenue Service Antifraud Commission," or the "International Revenue Service Antifraud Commission." Also, I assume that he means "funds" instead of "founds," but I could be wrong.
I tell ya, if these guys ever become proficient in the English language, they could be dangerous. Keeping up on their fraud website hosting payments would help, too.
Sunday, July 16, 2006
IRS e-mail scam
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what's frightening is that gingrich wants to run for pres- and part of his platform is to be entirely paperless. i just don't feel that secure doing that when hackers can obviously get into the irs, department of state, etc. and boneheads keep taking their laptops home to get stolen. america is too insecure to be paperless at this point.
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