OTTUMWA, IOWA -- Citizens beware—we have a KTVO alert for you concerning a new scam a viewer notified us was circulating in the area.
Scam artists are trying to take advantage of you under the pretense of the new economic stimulus plan. The scammers are calling and emailing people.
They request personal information such as social security and bank account numbers, claiming that the IRS needs this information to complete the processing of a stimulus payment. The caller impersonates an IRS employee.
We did some checking, and found out that the IRS doesn't request that kind of information from taxpayers by phone or email.
The good news is that you can help shut down these schemes and prevent others from being victimized. If you receive a suspicious e-mail that claims to come from the IRS, you can forward that email to a new IRS mailbox, phishing@irs.gov.
For more information on the scam visit the IRS website.
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