Beware of this IRS scam!

[crow01]

I got an email from the IRS, with my full name, saying I owed some amount of money.

The message said this:

From: Internal Revenue Service [mailto:no-reply@irs.gov]
To: my email
Subject: Notice of Underreported Income

Taxpayer ID: myname and some numbers
issue: Underreported Income

Please review your tax statement on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) website (click on the link below):

review tax statement for taxpayer id

Internal Revenue Service

When I browsed over the link, there was a very long website that started with: irs . gov.nuhh1z . eu (I removed the link cause I'm not sure if it goes to a virus)

I went into that site and it said I had to pay this much amount there was an "Internal Revenue Service" logo right there with blue color layout.

I went to actual IRS website and the logo only says "IRS.gov", and it had the same colors as the "fake" IRS website.

I called an accountant and he says the IRS doesn't send such things by email, and that the website was fake. It is a scam.

I googled it as well and it shows is a scam.

Be careful out there TB, scam artists are really good at their jobs.

[wld3]

...the IRS does not initiate communication with taxpayers through e-mail ... If you receive an unsolicited e-mail communication claiming to be from the IRS, please forward the original message to: phishing@irs.gov

From:
IRS: Beware of Phishing Schemes (PDF)

[Dirk Diggler]

Also look at the address, .eu? When is the last time you would even consider the irs would not be a .gov suffix? Plus as stated above they would never contact you via email.

The subject might as well have been:
Voluntary Stupidity Tax, send cash.

Dirk

[thumpbass1]

I've been through the biz with the IRS before on matters of them saying I owed them more money, and all communication was done by official snail mail and direct contact with the powers that be. No e-mailing. I'm glad the OP avoided a scam, and thanks for warning others.