The Internal Revenue Service released a warning on Monday about what they are calling a ‘Tax Transcript’ scam in which they warned the public about a surge of fraudulent emails impersonating the IRS and using transcripts as bait to entice users to open emails that contain malware.
The U.S. Justice Department is seeking an injunction to stop a Montana attorney and others from operating or promoting a program that appears to facilitate the donation of timeshares to charities, but actually led its customers to commit tax fraud and donated very little to charity.
Missoula County Sheriff's detectives took a report this week from a couple who discovered they were victims of identity theft when they attempted to file their income tax returns.
Upon the arrival of tax season, Attorney General Tim Fox wants to warn Montanans about aggressive and sometimes threatening phone calls from scammers impersonating agents of the Internal Revenue Service.
There never seems to be time when someone isn’t trying to fraud someone else out of money or property, but the Montana Department of Justice and Attorney General Tim Fox said right now, the department is seeing a lot of activity with two specific telephone based scams.