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Tax season is here and so are the IRS
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imposters these scammers resort to all
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kinds of ways to steal your information
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and your tax refund
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hi I'm Andre Avery United States Postal
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Inspector
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scammers often Target victims by posing
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as IRS agents you may think you would
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never fall for this but millions of
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Americans lose money in phone scams
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every year
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the scammer often goes to Great Lengths
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to come across as legitimate they will
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use a technique called spoofing to
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manipulate your caller ID so it appears
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the call is coming from the IRS
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the phone call may be about a real or
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pretend tax payment and the caller will
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threaten you with the rest if you don't
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pay them immediately
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the caller may even give you a fake name
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or a phony IRS badge number
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the minute a so-called IRS agent asks
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you for personal information you know
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it's a scam just hang up
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be smart knowledge is the best tool you
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can use to protect yourself against an
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IRS scam
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for more information on scams visit
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uspis.gov