The Millard County Sheriff’s Office has received local documentation of a well-known fraud involving entities falsely representing themselves through an e-mail as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The e-mail suggests eligibility for a tax refund and then directs the reader to a web page where personal information is requested and compromised. Many of the current IRS scams involve e-mail solicitation or “phishing” for crucial and dangerous personal information. The IRS and Sheriff Dekker suggest that if you receive an unsolicited e-mail purporting to be from the IRS, you take the following steps:

• Do not open any attachments to the e-mail, in case they contain malicious code that will infect your computer.
• Contact the IRS at 1-800-829-1040 to determine whether the IRS is trying to contact you about a tax refund.

For more on the IRS Tax Refund Scam, please visit the IRS bulletin here.