IRS Warns That Return Fraud Is On The Rise

Hundreds of millions in unclaimed tax refunds are a week away from expiring because the people who are owed them haven’t filed, but that won’t stop identity thieves from trying to get a piece of it.

“The big thing that we’re seeing this year and the last three years is identity theft morphing into return fraud,” IRS agent Brian Watson told Zachary Ziegler for Arizona Public Media in a recent interview. “Basically tax returns being prepared by criminals with other people’s information.”

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