{"id":184,"date":"2010-10-18T15:53:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T15:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2022-08-12T21:27:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T21:27:54","slug":"beware-of-irs-phishing-and-email-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/beware-of-irs-phishing-and-email-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of \u201cIRS\u201d Phishing and Email Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>IRS Phishing and Email Scams<\/h1>\n<p>The IRS does not request personal or financial information including your social security number over Internet.\u00a0 If the IRS needs information from you it will be done by letter.<\/p>\n<p>Phishing is when you are given a link in an email that looks like it was from the IRS requesting financial information to be entered.\u00a0 Avoid these and report anything suspicious to <strong><a href=\"mailto:phising@irs.gov\">phising@irs.gov<\/a>.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Likewise, if you get an email from the IRS requesting a reply with your social security number or other financial information\u2014ignore it and report it to the IRS.\u00a0 These email can look official with IRS logos and letterhead.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Allen E. A.<\/p>\n<p>Tax Debt Advisors, Inc<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopirsaction.com\">www.stopIRSaction.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IRS Phishing and Email Scams The IRS does not request personal or financial information including your social security number over Internet.\u00a0 If the IRS needs information from you it will be done by letter. Phishing is when you are given a link in an email that looks like it was from the IRS requesting financial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,66,26],"tags":[56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7303,"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/7303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}