The IRS will always first contact you by U.S. mail, not by phone or text message. Scammers may pose as tax officials to steal your money or personal information. The IRS will not demand payment via ...

Tax relief phone call scams are common year-round, and criminals use them to get money and commit identity theft. There is an IRS tax debt compromise option, however, that could allow you to settle ...

WASHINGTON — As the April filing deadline approaches, the Internal Revenue Service today warned taxpayers to be alert to tax time phone scams where aggressive criminals pose as IRS agents in hopes of ...

DENVER — If there is a Super Bowl for scammers, it is perhaps April 15 when the nation’s tax filing deadline looms over the heads of stressed-out Americans, many of whom are susceptible to getting ...

Financial planner Dottie Bourlier explains how to spot and avoid common government impersonation and other scams.

Thousands of people are bilked every year by criminals who enter the lives of their victims through their telephones. AARP once found that about half of all mobile calls were fraudulent, and that the ...