This one is not about card fraud, but of a new fraud scam. Sorry for the length of post.
I get a call a couple weeks ago, about April 16 I recall, from US Government on caller id, Not too worried as I am attorney and do bankruptcy, but see not from our area code. Message left was from IRS asking me to call this particular person. Uh oh, anytime from them, well you probably think same thing. I was out of town next few days, and then call comes in at 7:30am one morning, same number. Agent identifies their self, and asks me to verify some info on my law office employer Id number, etc. He then proceeds to ask if a certain person (Hispanic name) was an employee, No, I am a sole practitioner. I then ask what’s up. He tells me this person filed a W-2 and 1040 showing my PA made $43,000 and paid him $13,000. He said it was flagged as
suspicious, and he would of course deny the refund, and go after that person (I doubt they will ever find him).
I was surprised the scammers had found my EIN, but evidently they are available since public record, but they are searching public records to look for business names to do this type of scamming. Afterwards, I wished I had asked how much refund they had tried to get, because I had just seen the article about the tax refund scam where the filers (mostly Hispanic names) lists 8 or 10 or more dependents, including nieces nephews etc, so they could get refunds of $10,000 and more.