http:\/\/[gobbledygook redacted]\/www.irs.gov\/ <\/font><\/u><\/a> <\/p>\nRegards,
Internal Revenue Service<\/p>\n
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Document Reference: ([more gobbledygook])<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Riiiiight. I’ll just click right through, accept any downloads, tell you my SSN and bank account number (so you can “deposit my refund”), and then wonder what happened to my bank balance and why does my computer keep crashing …<\/p>\n
If the above doesn’t <\/em>look suspicious to you, you probably shouldn’t be on the Internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes these guys don’t even seem to be trying very hard: From: Internal Revenue Service Subject: Tax Notification Internal Revenue Service (IRS) United States Department of the Treasury After the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133237,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/10\/the-tax-man-cometh.html","url_meta":{"origin":11748,"position":0},"title":"The Tax Man Cometh","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 10-Apr-17 10:23am","format":false,"excerpt":"Started my taxes yesterday, finished them today. 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