Scam Alert: IRS Underreported Payment Emails

I’ve been getting this in my email a lot lately. I know its a scam because the IRS only knows me by my business number (and the one in the email isn’t it) and it doesn’t have the email address that this email came to. I file through a different email. I tried to see where the link went but my virus protection gives me a warning not to go any further. In case your virus doesn’t have that kind of protection, I wanted to warn you about this email.

From: Internal Revenue Service
To:
Subject: Notice of Underreported Income
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 14:56:49 -0300

Taxpayer ID: success-00000174073547US
Tax Type: INCOME TAX
Issue: Unreported/Underreported Income (Fraud Application)

Please review your tax statement on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) website (click on the link below):

review tax statement for taxpayer id: success-00000174073547US

Internal Revenue Service