The Internal Revenue Service and state tax agencies are warning of a surge of new, sophisticated email phishing scams.
|Scam surge in 2018
Tax-related phishing scams reported to the IRS declined for the prior three years until a surge in 2018.
"More than 2,000 tax-related scam incidents were reported to the IRS from January through October, compared to approximately 1,200 incidents in all of 2017," the IRS states.
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