Criminals are coming up with ever more sophisticated tax refund scams using real data, and they’re getting it from businesses.
Steven Slazinik, assistant special agent in-charge of the St. Louis field office of IRS-Criminal Investigations, spends a lot of his time investigating data theft, identity theft, tax refund fraud and account takeovers. He said the IRS has been successful in its efforts to combat identity theft, seeing instances drop from 297,000 in tax year 2015, to 204,000 in 2016 and…
Criminals are coming up with ever more sophisticated tax refund scams using real data, and they’re getting it from businesses.
Steven Slazinik, assistant special agent in-charge of the St. Louis field office of IRS-Criminal Investigations, spends a lot of his time investigating data theft, identity theft, tax refund fraud and account takeovers. He said the IRS has been successful in its efforts to combat identity theft, seeing instances drop from 297,000 in tax year 2015, to 204,000 in 2016 and…