Another reason to file your tax return ASAP The longer you wait, the more likely you are to be a victim of ID theft

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Consumer Affairs - 2/6/2017 - Mark Huffman - Many taxpayers are eager to file their tax return because they have a big refund coming. But there's another reason to get your tax return in as quickly as possible. That gives fraudsters less time to file a fake return in your name, collecting a large bogus refund. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) says identity theft, with scammers assuming the identity of a real taxpayer, remains the biggest scam it has to deal with. All a scammer has to do is steal a taxpayer's Social Security number. He then makes up a phony W-2 form from a company and fills out a return showing a large refund. He then has the refund direct-deposited into a money card or other untraceable Read more @ account.https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/an ... 20617.html