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Alabama Tests Selfie Authentication To Fight Tax Fraud

PYMNTS

Recently, for instance, experts found a scammer selling 3,600 Florida W-2 forms on the dark web after phishing a tax preparation firm. Likewise, IBM’s commercial security research team checked its spam traps and discovered an over 6,000 percent increase in the number of common tax scam emails from December 2016 to February 2017.

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Brexit Scams Rise as Criminals Target Uncertain Times

FICO

What is important in this case is that whilst financial data may not have been the target, the wider personal data set allows the fraudster to better perpetrate an account takeover, scam or ID theft. Three Brexit Scams. . Unpaid tax warning - Criminals have come up with a new twist on the unpaid tax scam.

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