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BioCatch
APRIL 24, 2025
of various tax codes to con us into sending them our returns or estimated payments. The difference this year is artificial intelligence (AI) and social engineering tactics have increased both the sophistication and prevalence of tax scams.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 18, 2016
17) of a new tax bill scam in which unwitting consumers receive a fake IRS notice that contends they owe the government money because of the Affordable Care Act. The Internal Revenue Service warned Thursday (Nov.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
That is, the bitcoin automated teller machine (ATM) payments have become more common than iTunes vouchers in reports of scam payments to the Australian Taxation Office. The ATO has seen close to 30,000 reports of attempted scams as of July.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 18, 2021
This week's B2B Data Digest takes a look at the numbers behind the latest instances of fraud, including fraudulent invoices, corporate tax scams and more. $19 19 million in shipping scams hit Amazon , according to U.S. Homeland Security investigators.
PYMNTS
APRIL 9, 2020
government has made additional changes to help both businesses and consumers deal with the strains of COVID-19, by extending the deadline to file taxes to July 15. Fraudsters are moving in to take advantage of tax confusion and consumer stress, however.
PYMNTS
APRIL 12, 2017
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.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 21, 2019
million: This is the suspected value of a VAT fraud scam that Ireland’s Garda National Economic Crime Bureau is investigating, local reports said last week.
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