Beware of this IRS email fraud

Daniel,

I recall in the 70's when dishonest elements would mail a business a box of
office supplies, unordered, COD. Businesses lept $100 in petty cash, so a
receptionist would shell out some nominal figure like $78.23 and put the box of
supplies in the storage with the ever growing stock. Eventually biz began to
protect themselves by having a policy of refusing all COD shipments. I recall
that change.

But those unscrupulous elements found out the COD part was unnecessary. They
could ship in the supplies, include an invoice, and the $78.23 invoice would get
paid... no accounts receivable clerk wanted to check to see if such a
transaction was legit.

So then with mail order becoming popular in the 1980's these bad elements began
sending goodies to peoples home, with an invoice enough homeowners paid to make
it a problem. Congress stepped in with a rule that if you did not order it, you
don't have to pay for it. That stopped that.

Undaunted, these bad guys went back to businesses, and no longer sent goods COD,
and no longer sent the goods at all. Given the new govt rules, they simply
mailed out invoices for $78.23 (or whatever) and the payables clerk lined them
up for payment rather than deal with researching the invoice. The crooks'
profits soared.

With the internet, no point in sending out bogus bills which often enough cause
people to pay the bogus bill, now the bad guys can simply take over your bank
account thru identity theft and do as they will.

Of course, if the govt was not involved in regulating transportation, banking
and communications, we would not have these problems. Security is now the
govt's job, and as any Iraqi can tell you, the US Govt is abysmal in this
regard.

With the govt in charge of security in transportation, banking and
communications, those industries simply leave it to the govt, because that is
the standard.

If the govt was not involved in transportation, banking and communications
regulation, then a proper amount of security would be a competitive item, and
quality in this regard would rise.

Most of the economic boom of the late 80's to the 2000 bust was due to easy
money, but the easy money ran into deregulated telecommunications (well,
deregulation lite)... if we were to decide collectively to deregulate anything
else, such a medicine (get govt out of medicine) or food or housing we'd see
another boom.

Freedom to pursue service to others, and freedom from interference in serving
others... therein lies the path to solving these problems.

John



All,

Beware of this latest technique of identity theft. It disguises as IRS tax
refund and as if it were from service@irs.gov. If you click on the claim form
link, then it will ask for your SS number plus your credit card information
complete with your ATM pin number. I think they are not smart enough to fool me.
Not only the amount is too small that made me lazy to fill out the form, but
also the link is not showing IRS web site, instead it goes to
www.essentialism.be, somewhere in Belgium (not listed in whois database). I
contacted IRS and they said there is no such refund for me.

Dan

To: daniel_purwadi@yahoo.com
Subject: Information - daniel_purwadi@yahoo.com - Tax return Code 854580473 -
From: "IRS.gov"
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:37:56 +0000 (UTC)



Account : daniel_purwadi@yahoo.com

After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined
that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $63.80. Please submit the tax
refund request and allow us 3-5 days in orders to process it.

A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons. For example submitting
invalid records of applying after the deadline.

To access the form for your tax fefund, please click here.

Regards,
Internal Revenue Service

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