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Income Taxes › Phishing Scams

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Social engineering in tax season: Form W-2 exploits

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 1/31/2023

This year’s deadline for filing individual tax returns is April 18. Malicious actors routinely target human resources professionals, certified public accountants, and individual employees with social engineering attacks...more

Weekly IRS Roundup August 16 – August 20, 2021

McDermott Will & Emery on 8/24/2021

Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of August 16, 2021 – August 20, 2021... August 17, 2021: The IRS Security Summit series, in...more

IRS Issues Annual “Dirty Dozen" List of Tax-Related Scams

McDermott Will & Emery on 7/2/2021

Each year, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) publishes a list of tax-related scams, which it calls the “Dirty Dozen.” This year, it provided a “Dirty Dozen” scam series warning taxpayers of such scams....more

Taxpayer Cybersecurity – Step 4: Recognize Identity Theft

Snell & Wilmer on 8/15/2019

The Security Summit, consisting of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), state tax agencies, and private-sector tax industry officials, is encouraging tax professionals during the 2019 summer season to take some time to...more

Privacy Tip #181- IRS Warns Consumers and Employers About Tax-Related Phishing Schemes

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 3/15/2019

In another round of warnings from the federal government on protecting yourself from tax return fraud and identity theft, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued its 2019 “Dirty Dozen” Campaign, designed to warn...more

Privacy Tip #180 – National Consumer Protection Week—Tax Identity Theft

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 3/11/2019

Last week was National Consumer Protection Week. In celebration of that, this post is devoted to protection from tax identity theft. ...more

Avoid Taking the Bait of W-2 Phishing Schemes

Ballard Spahr LLP on 3/7/2019

As tax season winds on, the W-2 form scam has emerged as one of the most dangerous and common phishing email schemes during this time of year....more

Client Alert – Employers Beware: ‘Tis the Season for Data Theft

Bowditch & Dewey on 12/18/2018

Because cybercriminals don’t take holidays, December is an appropriate time for all employers to take steps to protect tax data and identities (both their own and their employees’) in advance of the 2019 tax-filing season....more

FBI Issues New Warning to Businesses About Phishing Campaigns

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 3/12/2018

In a recent Public Service Announcement dated February 21, 2018 entitled “Increase in W-2 Phishing Campaigns,” the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) issued another alert about an increase in phishing campaigns since the...more

Employers Take Note: Tax Season Phishing Scams on the Rise

Fisher Phillips on 2/21/2018

It is tax season once again, and with it comes an increased threat of phishing scams targeting human resources and payroll personnel. In 2016, the IRS alerted employers to a then-emerging email phishing scheme in which...more

Now is the Busy Season for Cyber Criminals Posing as Executives to Obtain W-2s

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 1/5/2018

It’s the start of tax season, and many employers are sending W-2 forms to employees so they can get ready to file their tax returns. As was true over the past few years, this is not only the busy season for tax preparers,...more

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