SCAM ALERT: Tax season will bring the fraudsters out

Lynette Veit, ECB Publishing, Inc. For the last several years in a row, phone scams with phony IRS agents, and email phishing scams out to steal personal information have topped the IRS' list of tax scams that plague millions of people during tax filing season. Whether people have already filed their taxes or are still planning to do so, receiving a phone call from “the IRS” claiming that they owe an outrageous sum of money, or threatening them with arrest, revocation of driver's or busi