IRS Refund E-Mail Scam Circulating the Internet

An e-mail which appears to be an e-mail from the IRS with instructions on how to claim a tax refund is poliferating around the internet. The e-mail appears to be sent from Service@irs.gov with a link to a cloned IRS website. The intent is to steal social security numbers after a visitor completes the refund request on the site which looks exactly like the IRS site, but is actually a Russian website and not the government site visitors are expecting. The e-mail is likely to confuse some taxpayers during this tax season and with the tax rebates politicians have promised pending. Pass on this alert to friends and family!

The text of the scam e-mail is posted below:

After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we havedetermined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $129.72.Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 3-9 days in order toprocess it.A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons.For example submitting invalid records or applying after the deadline.To access your tax refund, please click here.

Best Regards,
Tax Refund DeparmentInternal Revenue Service