It’s April, so spring is upon us and so is a often more unpleasant season – tax time. For many of us, the tax burden is behind us, but still, it’s always a stressful time gathering together all the records from the past year and making that annual filing to the Internal Revenue Service. 

In my latest episode, we are going to tackle and additional stress that’s come up when it comes to taxes and it doesn’t have anything to do with filing your own return.  Instead – tax returns have become ripe for fraudsters, and I want to let you know how these scammers are doing it and how you can protect yourself or respond, if it happens to you.

Unfortunately, I’m reporting on this one first-hand because yours truly had it happen to her this year, believe it or not. These scammers are so pervasive and are costing our country billions of dollars each year.  The Justice Department has a new initiative because of the increase in fraud and its called the Stolen Identity Refund Fraud.  
I can report personally that it can happen to you because it happened to me.   I didn’t even know a return had been filed when I found out.  After I found out I had to take some very specific action to not only advise the IRS that it wasn’t me that filed the return and to protect my identify from further fraud.  

I’ve talked about scammers before and you might want to go back and listen in the two-part episode on scams,  As I have said,  these scammers are super sophisticated.  They are coming up with more and more clever ways to obtain our personal information.

Unfortunately, I was burned – and in my latest episode, I’ll tell you more about that but I want to respond to the attack in this podcast by providing you with resources to avoid being a victim of IRS fraud and also take some additional steps to protect your personal information.

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