Beware: That Call From the IRS May Not Be a Scam After All

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Truth-Out - 5/21/2017 - Anna Challett - For taxpayers worried about scams involving IRS imposters, the one reliable piece of advice to hold onto was the old consumer protections adage: "The IRS will never call you." Not anymore. The Internal Revenue Service is phasing in the use of private debt collectors to collect people's past-due taxes. With telephonic scams involving IRS imposters so common, taxpayers now have one new thing to worry about. Janice Kopec is an attorney with the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission. "In the past, we had always told consumers, 'The IRS won't call you,'" says Kopec. "That was the first line of defense to arm consumers to avoid IRS scam calls. And now, that's not true. You can get called by a legitimate debt collector on behalf of the IRS." Read more @ http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/4061 ... -after-all