Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Posted: 1 pm ET
Misery might well love company, but not when it comes to a pervasive tax scam.
Last November, the Internal Revenue Service warned that con artists pretending to be IRS agents were calling people across the country, telling them that they owed taxes and must pay using a prepaid debit card or wire transfer. The scammers then threatened those who refused to pay with arrest, deportation (many of the targeted victims were immigrants) or loss of a business or driver's license.