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Phishing alert: IRS tax refunds - Lifehacker

Phishing alert:  IRS tax refunds - Lifehacker

Wednesday15March2006

Phishing alert: IRS tax refunds

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Popular Science’s Mike Haney warns against a legitimate-looking IRS email he received promising a small tax refund - small enough that the message seems believable. Of course, the actual URL in the message was not irs.gov. Be sure to watch out for IRS-branded phishing email this time of year.

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I started getting these back in December.

by Matt Haughey on 03/15/06 11:16 AM

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