Notice of underreported income
One year I made $1.26 interest on my checking account, which I duly reported to the Eternal Revenue Service.
So I was quite sure this curt little email notice was bogus:
Taxpayer ID: chaz-00000174073547US
Tax Type: INCOME TAX
Issue: Unreported/Underreported Income (Fraud Application)
Please review your tax statement on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) website (click on the link below):
I am, of course, not crazy enough to click on said link, which starts with irs.gov but ends with a whole lot of misdirection, which means that “Fraud Application” is in fact correct, though not in the sense they’d like you to think. And how likely is it that the IRS would refer to me as “chaz,” anyway?
Cary »
26 September 2009 · 1:23 pm
Maybe they read your blog.
CGHill »
26 September 2009 · 1:31 pm
Doesn’t everyone?
fillyjonk »
26 September 2009 · 2:20 pm
Maybe it’s some initiative for a new, “friendlier” IRS? Where we all have nick-names?
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It takes some cojones for a phisher to ask his would-be victim to fill out a “Fraud Application.”
unimpressed »
26 September 2009 · 3:57 pm
It’s mis-worded.
It’s a fraudULENT application or an application to be defrauded.