Phishing Scam ???

[nwagner]

Anyone else keep getting this email and another that is supposedly from the IRS? They have popped up in my Spam folder from the beginning and they are very suspicious. The one I recieved yesterday ...

SubjectIRS Notification - Tax Refund - Attention RequiredFromnotification@system.irs.netTo
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Sent on07/23/2008 05:00 PMSize2 KBPriorityNormal
After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $863.80.

Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 6-9 days in order to process it.

A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons. For example submitting invalid records or applying after the deadline.

To access the form for your tax refund, please click here.

Regards,
Internal Revenue Service

Funny, irs.net is a tax settlement advice website ...

[Michael Larson]

I got the same one yesterday for the same amount.

[William J. Decker]

Think about it for a moment.

The IRS does not have my e-mail address. I never gave it to them.

The IRS does not communicate, in a legal fashion, with the public, but only by mail. Anything that is e-mailed is , pretty much, in the public sphere. Would the irs send out private, legal information in such a public way?

Is it the IRS?

Hope this helps;

[nwagner]

Ah, the dweebs tried another IRS email scam last year ...

http://www.nachi.org/forum/f13/new-irs-scam-20102/

[rmaday]

I got one the other day - simply deleted it.
IRS will not initiate communication via email.
They may not email at all.

[Michael Larson]

The real IRS encourages all to forward these IRS phishing scams to them

Instructions Here