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IRS Warns Tax Professionals of New Scam to Steal Passwords

Original release date: August 07, 2017

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), acting in concert with state tax agencies and the tax industry, has issued an IRS Security Summit Alert for tax professionals to beware of a new phishing email scam. Scam operators often use fraudulent e-mails to entice their targets to reveal login credentials.

US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the IRS Alert and US-CERT Security Tip ST04-014.

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