Scammers have been perfecting the art of fraud for years. We at Lewis Financial Tax Service, LLC will be doing our best to stay abreast of the newest scams and alerts from the IRS. We will continually update our site to pass this information along to our clients and potential clients. You may also use the following link to stay up-to-date with all the current IRS scams https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/tax-scams-consumer-alerts

IMPORTANT: The IRS will never initiate contact with taxpayers via email about a tax bill, refund or Economic Impact Payments. This includes the agencies assigned to collect past due balances with the IRS.

There is currently a fake “IRS” email making the rounds and it is targeting Microsoft Office 365 users. This email is claiming it has been sent to collect payments and will even threaten to take legal action. This scam is even more convincing than most because it appears to originate from the “irs.gov” domain.

This scam, as with most of them, imply a sense of urgency to the matter. This can cause individuals to act rashly and pay off debts to avoid arrest. In this particular instance, the fraudster claims to already have made attempts of contacting the individual and the case is escalating. Even gong so far as to saying, “And our apologies that this notification will also be sent to your current employer.”, implying that made-up outstanding amounts will be legally withheld out of their wages. It even has fabricated account numbers, loan numbers and balance due amounts. They use specific information to strengthen the aura of legitimacy of the attack. “We have sent you this warning notification about legal proceedings in May 2019. But you failed to respond on time,” the messages say. “This time, if you fail to respond then we will register this case in court. Consider this as a Final Warning.”

There is a giveaway, however, as is the case with all scams. A closer look shows the emails’ header is actually “shoesbagsall.com.” Not only that, the “reply-to” field redirects the replies to “legal.cc@outlook.com”.

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