2019 W2 Form. (Source: LisaCarter/Shutterstock)
Tax season for fraudsters has no beginning or end, only a peak, because hackers constantly seek to steal identities from individuals, tax professionals and businesses to gain from fraudulent tax returns.
The IRS continued to warn taxpayers of the threats, ID theft, scams and schemes by issuing a number of alerts over the past year about the fraudulent use of the IRS name or logo by scammers. The IRS reported phishing as one of the most common forms of scam during tax season.
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Roy Urrico
Roy W. Urrico specializes in articles about financial technology and services for Credit Union Times, as well as ghostwriting, copywriting, and case studies. Also: writer/editor of a semi-annual newsletter for Association for Financial Technology since 1997 and history projects funded by the U.S Interior Department, National Park Service and Warren County (N.Y.).
