IRS Notification -Tax refund -- Scam Alert?

[nebenaube]

call me a skeptic but I just received the following email:


After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that
you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $249.30
Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 3-6 days in order to
process it.

A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons.
For example submitting invalid records or applying after the deadline.

To access the form for your tax refund, please click here


Regards,
Internal Revenue Service




© Copyright 2007, Internal Revenue Service U.S.A. All rights reserved.

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a quick look at the message's source code (note that I deliberatly broke the link for posting here)and we find:

<img src="" ><br><br>
<font face="Tahoma" size="2">After the last
annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that<br>
you are eligible to receive a tax refund of <b>$249.30</b><br>Please
submit the tax refund request and allow us 3-6 days in order to<br>
process it.</font><br><br>
<font face="Tahoma" size="2">A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons.<br>
For example submitting invalid records or applying after the deadline.<br><br>
<font size="2" face="Tahoma">To access the form for your tax refund,
please <b><a href="h*tp://darioman.w.interia.pl/obrazki/secure/redirect.to/www.irs.gov">click here</a></b></font><br><br><br>
<font face="Tahoma" size="2">Regards, <br>
Internal Revenue Service</font></p><br><br><br>
<font face="Tahoma" color="#C0C0C0" size="2">© Copyright 2007, Internal Revenue Service U.S.A. All rights reserved.

So I must asked... Have we outsourced the IRS to Poland?

[TwilightZone]

1. Scam

http://www.snopes.com/fraud/phishing/irs2006.asp

[damntexdem]

18. When one receives three or more every day, one is sure it's a scam.

Just like all of the bank notices from banks that one has never had any business with.

[havocmom]

2. Seriously doubt the IRS would be emailing people

Outsourcing? Yep. They hire contractors to do a lot of returns. Google outsourcing + tax returns for some bad news.

But this sure looks like a spam scam

[Blackhatjack]

3. SCAM --IRS does not have a refund process online ....

[judaspriestess]

4. The IRS is about TAKING your money

not giving it back. 3-6 days processing?:spray: How about 3-6 months or never.

On Edit, Poland? fucking morans!

[RebelOne]

5. Major scam. This one has been around for a while.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. If the IRS has anything to say to you (good or bad)

they ALWAYS do so by U.S. mail, sometimes registered mail.

[flyingfysh]

7. the IRS never sends notifications by email

It's a scam, trying to get your bank information.

[ironflange]

8. It's pretty safe to assume Europeans aren't in charge of the US Treasury

But give them a couple of years. . .

:evilgrin:

[Stargazer99]

14. Since the IRS is outsourching your financial data what makes

you think Europe or any other nation won't have scams coming out of them?

[ironflange]

21. Uh, no, what I meant is. . .

The way the US dollar is going these days. . .

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Scam. Absolutely, the IRS does not contact people via email.

[iamthebandfanman]

10. the IRS doesnt email people.

when was the last time you gave them email address even ?
lol

[133724]

11. I would suspect a forgery

We I put the following URL in to my browser (firefox) I received a notice that the site was a suspected forgery.

http://darioman.w.interia.pl/obrazki/secure/redirect.to/www.irs.gov


Also the IRS does not use this logo on its correspondence:




Also there is an address block on the top left side of the notice indication the notice number, the tax year involved, the tax form involved and an IRS phone number.

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Firefox 2 contains a built-in Phishing Protection feature that warns you of suspected Web forgeries, and offers to take you directly to a search page so you can find the real Web site you were looking for. You can test the Phishing Protection feature by browsing to this test site.

[LisaL]

12. Why would IRS contact someone by e-mail?

[Stargazer99]

13. Expect more of this since IRS outsourced its data

It is amazing how asleep the common man is....I had heard about this outsourcing 2 years ago. Your media didn't let you know, huh? Liberal media my tush.

[Warren DeMontague]

15. Self Delete

You've already figured out the scam.

I pretty much figure everything I get "notified" about in email is a scam, until proven otherwise.

[flowomo]

16. "Regards, Internal Revenue Service" LOL....

right, they always sign that way. Or sometimes, "Love and kisses, IRS" XXXXX OOOOO

[damntexdem]

17. We may have outsourced to Poland, but this is still a scam.

I mean, it's a scam that doesn't even have anything to do with the U.S. Government under the Bushistas.

[ecstatic]

19. if you look at the entire link in the source code, only part of it contains the IRS

I guess some sort of subdomain.

[cynatnite]

20. Nope...

Have never heard of the IRS emailing like this.