"And now, a scam from the "IRS"" Topic

I've received this twice today at work on our generic account (library at state dot texas) Mousing over the link showed that it did not go to the IRS (big suprise there!) Note the timeliness of this one – you must respond before 5/1/2008. Hope no one out there bites on this.

IRS fraud unit was made aware of this. Hope they catch these people, but they are probably offshore and out of reach.

David

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"May the oh-wonth…hee.hee love it.

IRS fraud unit was made aware of this. Hope they catch these people, but they are probably offshore and out of reach.

Usually well out of reach of the authorities.

I had a similar one in my junk account this morning. I forwarded it to the IRS Phishing & Fraud unit, not sure if they will do anything with it though.