Emails From The Internal Revenue Service Telling You to Update Your Information-Fiction! & Scam!

The Truth:  
These are scams to illegally get personal information from the recipient of the unsolicited emails.

This eRumor went viral on September 26, 2012 and we received several versions in a matter of minutes.  After a close inspection of the emails we determined these to be hoaxes.   The emails we got were addressed to people not affiliated with truthorfiction.com and the links in the imbedded text led to sites not connected with the Internal Revenue Service.  These links may direct readers to a web site that could possibly infect them with a virus.

We have edited the email address and deactivated the links in the examples below.

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Hello,

Due to the system failure the EIN of your company has been accidently erased from the online database, please validate your EIN to confirm your current status of taxpayer. Certain indulgences will be applied to the next audit report for your company. IRS is sorry to cause inconvenience.


For detail information, please refer to:
https://www.irs.gov/Login.aspx?u=F926C1F6D7DD1E

Sincerely yours,
Benton Potter
IRS Customer Service representative

Other Version:
 

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Hello,

Due to the corrections in the taxation policies that have been recently applied, IRS informs that Limited Liability Companies, C-Corporations and S-Corporations have to validate their EIN in order to confirm their actual status. You have 14-day period in order to examine all the changes and make necessary amendments. We are sorry to cause inconvenience.

For the details please refer to:
https://www.irs.gov/ClientArea.aspx?u=D34DA645EB12

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