There's an email going around, purportedly from the IRS, claiming that there's something wrong with the recipient's electronic payment. It's October, and IRS payment are due in April, but bureaucracy moves at the sort of pace, right? The email offers the recipient an easy way to refile the payment online.
Of course, it's a scam, designed to get you to enter a credit-card number to make up for the missing payment. For one thing, if the IRS has any issues with your taxes, they will get in touch with you via the good old U.S. mail. If your electronic payment is ever rejected, you'll get a detailed letter in the mail explaining the situation. They're also very careful about giving you multiple points of access to them, including a phone number and information available at www.IRS.gov.
For its part, here's how the IRS responds to such "phishing": The IRS does not initiate taxpayer communications through e-mail. In addition, the IRS does not request detailed personal information through e-mail or ask taxpayers for the PIN numbers, passwords, or similar secret access information for their credit card, bank or other financial accounts.
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