Tag: IRS

You’ve probably gotten one of these calls: They say it’s the IRS and they’re filing a lawsuit against you for back taxes. They may threaten to arrest or deport you. What do you do?

It’s Tax Identity Theft Awareness Week – a terrific time to get up to date on protecting yourself from identity thieves who try to claim your tax refund and imposters who pretend they’re from

Identity theft is hard enough. That’s why we keep working to make recovering from it easier.

Today is the start of both the FTC’s

Here’s one of the top questions we get from people: Is this a scam?

One thing we know about scammers — they want money, and they want it fast. That’s why, whatever the con they’re running, they usually ask people to pay a certain way.

Here at the FTC, we think about scams all day long. What are the scammers’ new angles? How can we keep ahead of them?