Tax Refund Scam

Below is a copy of an email received on at least one email account at
Washington College. It is a scam that is probably designed to
fraudulently obtain your personal information to be used to steal your
identity.

Things to note:

1. "do-not-reply@irs.gov" is misspelled.

2. Did you provide the IRS with your email address? I did not.

3. The link provided does not go to WWW.IRS.GOV, but rather to a web site in Canada (sdsl.bell.ca is the domain). It is extremely unlikely that the IRS would use a web site in Canada, or any other country, to process its data.

Simple checks like these on many different scam emails will prevent one from being the prey of identity thieves.

Practice safe computing.

THIS IS THE SCAM EMAIL:

Subject: Tax Refund $109.30.
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:19:58 -0600
From: Internal Revenue Service U.S.A.
Reply-To:
To: undisclosed-recipients: ;

After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $109.30.

Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 6-9 days in order to process it.

A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons. For example submitting invalid records or applying after the deadline.

To access the form for your tax refund, please click here :

http://mtlxpqak-1177865636.sdsl.bell.ca:84/irs/

Regards, Internal Revenue Service

© Copyright 2007, Internal Revenue Service U.S.A.