Now scammers are pretending to be the IRS

Scammers?  IRS?

Oh, to have the wisdom to be able to tell the difference between the two!

Good Tip, Kaushik!

I have gotten emails from people claiming to be the irs and other government officials. scary isn't it?

Boy they just always come up with a new angle.  The sad part is some people will fall for it and give up the information.  I hope the word gets out enough and it chases the scammers away.

My delete key is actually having the word rubbed off on it.  Amazing what scammers and thieves will think of next. 

Thanks for the heads up. It seems to be a never ending battle to keep up with the new ones.

I continue to get calls from the 'Colorado Police Association'. They want you to think that they are affiliated with the police department. Whenever I ask, "Colorado Springs police ...?", they beat around the bush.  So we can expect a lot more of these 'wolves in sheep's clothing' types of scams.

There is a new type of scam everyday. If only these people would spend their time doing something productive. What is more amazing is that there are people that actually fall for this stuff. You would think by now that if you recieved something like this it would be a no-brainer.

Kaushik, It does seem incredible that people keep falling for that kind of thing. The sad part is there must be a lot who do because by golly these jerks keep ripping people off over and over.

We get emails pretending to be all sorts of people. We got one the other day supposedly from PayPal, notifying us that they authorized a payment. When I checked (by typing in the correct URL, not by clicking their link) of course it was false. We're getting ones right now pretending to be Western Union and Google. WE also got that one awhile back that tried to extort money so they wouldn't kill us! My personal favorite "scammail" is the one with the subject "How smart are you?" and a link to click for an IQ test. My answer is "I'm smart enough not to click that link!".

How can ANYONE still be gullible enough to fall for these things?

And I'll chime in with another one to watch out for. I assume that many people have already seen this and figured out to leave it alone, but it's worth noting just in case someone hasn't. It's the ecard and electronic postcard scam I'm referring to. They send out an email saying "you have received a card from a family member". They replace the words "family member" from time to time to things like - church member; your mate; a business associate; etc, etc. This kind of spam is especially malicious because my AVG email scanner has detected viruses in some of them, and fortunately I was protected. Be very careful with these!

One tip I'd like to mention for those that use Thunderbird. If you get an email and you are unsure about it's legitimacy, click on VIEW, then click on MESSAGE SOURCE. This does not open the email, but it does enable you to see the actual source and who it's coming from. This feature is one of the reasons I like using Thunderbird for my email.   --Kevin

Oh no, the IRS?  Geez, there is always some new scam out there, isn't there?  Thanks for the info and it pays just to be careful when going through your in-box!

I just got the same email and it looked very official. I figured it must be a scam because I didn't think they owed me money.

Thank you for the heads up on this.  There is so much garbage email's that come along.  I don't take a chance. I figure with something from the IRS they would mail something to me that is that important.