Franchise Tax Board Warns of Two Online Scams
May 19 Sacramento Business Journal – (California)
The California Franchise Tax Board is warning taxpayers of two scams involving the tax board and identity theft. The first scam involves an e-mail “phishing” for taxpayer data. The e-mail masquerades as offering to check the status of people’s state income tax refund. Scams of this nature attempt to lure people into revealing personal and financial information, such as Social Security, bank account or credit card numbers, which may be used in identify theft. The second scam involves a phony letter informing the taxpayer his or her tax return may be audited. The letter refers the taxpayer to a fake FTB address in Georgia. Both the e-mail and the letter contain misspellings and grammatical errors.
Source:http://www.bizjournals.com/sacrament...9/daily15.html
http://www.ftb.ca.gov/aboutFTB/press/2008/08_25.shtml
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