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Appleton, Wis.-Area Taxpayers Urged to Stay Alert to Tax Scams.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2002
By Pete Bach, The Post-Crescent, Appleton, Wis. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 1--Taxpayers should beware of a scheme that uses phony Internal Revenue Service forms to pull off an identity theft, warn area financial experts.
The perpetrators of the scam use a document mimicking a genuine W-9 to obtain information to drain the bank accounts of unsuspecting folks.
"They get customers' names from a bank somehow and send out a letter that looks like it's coming from the bank. Then they attach some phony IRS document. They look real but they're not," said Cindy Hockenberry, information coordinator for the Appleton-based National Association of Tax Professionals.
Banks were alerted to the scam this spring. No evidence of...
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