WATCH OUT FOR TAX SCAMS!

To help the public recognize and avoid tax schemes and scams the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) offers an abundance of educational materials.

For a list of common schemes and scams, please visit:

• 2010 Dirty Dozen Tax Scams
• Five Facts You Need to Know about Suspicious E-mails
• Tax Scams - How to Recognize and Avoid Them
• Suspicious e-Mails and Identity Theft
• Online Scams that Impersonate the IRS
• Scammers Use e-Mail, Fax to Pose as IRS
• IRS Alerts Public to Identity Theft Scams
• Ten Things the IRS Wants You to Know about Identity Theft
• What Are Some of the Most Common Abusive Tax Schemes?

Additional Resources:

• How to Report and Identify Phishing, E-mail Scams and Bogus IRS Websites
• Reporting Abusive Shelters, Fraud, and Unscrupulous Tax Preparers
• OnGuardOnline.gov