IRS Reports Steep Decline in Tax-Related ID Theft

ronjor · Feb 15, 2018

Steve Zurier 2/15/2018

Research group Javelin confirms that the numbers are trending in the right direction, with total fraud losses dropping more than 14% to $783 million.
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Palancar · Feb 16, 2018

I was one of those families that asked for and received IP PINs and did a complete freeze of all our credit reports. I wish I knew the percentage of tax filers that did likewise. Just wondering if all others made as thorough a move, might not the numbers get substantially better?

Minimalist · Feb 17, 2018

Half A Million People Don’t Know Criminals Stole Their Identities to Get Jobs

A programming error kept the IRS from notifying hundreds of thousands of identity theft victims about criminals using their Social Security numbers to get themselves jobs in 2017, according to an internal investigation.

Last year, more than half a million Americans had their identities used by others to get hired, but only first-time victims received a notification from the IRS, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found. As a result, nearly 460,000 previous victims of employment identity theft were left in the dark about their information getting stolen yet again.
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http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...inals-stole-their-identities-get-jobs/146077/

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