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I got a phone call today from a spoofed number (real police department number) pretending to be from the police department. He said some irs is checking my older tax return and found some improper tax reporting of my scholarship. They were gonna put out a warrant to arrest me and he was going to help me by putting me through some process. Halfway through the call I got suspicious and mentioned I should probably get a lawyer, and he hanged up. I called the number back, and it was indeed the police department. He immediately said it’s a scam and it’s been happening a lot. He ensures I will get something in the mail if I actually have problems with the irs and calmed me down. So it turned out ok.

My concern was that the scammer was actually able to gave the name of my university and the exact scholarship amount(they were from 6-7 years ago). And he somehow also had the idea that I might have reported it incorrect?(I don’t think so but I wasn’t sure) how did he get that information and how should I protect myself in the future preventing situations like this?



Submitted February 20, 2018 at 03:26PM by totolin http://ift.tt/2EFjoiU

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