IRS Warns Taxpayers f New Scams
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- IRS Warns Taxpayers f New Scams
- Heath Ledger conman
- India Uncovers Kidney Racket
IRS Warns Taxpayers f New Scams
Boston Channel.com – Jan 30, 2008
Most of these fraudulent activities can be committed electronically from a remote location including overseas. The most recent scams brought to IRS attention are:Rebate Phone Call At least one scheme using the word “rebate” as part of the lure has been identified. In that scam consumers receive a phone call from someone identifying himself as an IRS employee. The caller tells the targeted victim that he is eligible for a sizable rebate for filing his taxes early. The caller then states that he needs the target’s bank account information for the direct deposit of the rebate. If the target refuses he is told that he cannot receive the rebate. This phone call is a scam… Paper Check Phone Call In a current telephone scam a caller claims to be an IRS employee who is calling because the IRS sent a check to the individual being called. The caller states that because the check has not been cashed the IRS wants to verify the individual’s bank account number. The caller may have a foreign accent. In reality the IRS leaves it entirely up to the individual to choose to cash or not cash a paper check. The IRS has no business need to know and does not ask for bank account or similar information except when taxpayers indicate on their tax return that they are opting for the direct electronic deposit of their refund.
Heath Ledger conman
NEWS.com.au – Jan 30, 2008
article-tools –> January 30 2008 09:27am THE callous conman posing as Heath Ledger’s father has been caught on tape peddling his sick lies. Police hunting the scam artist with a pronounced British accent say he has tried to get himself in every part of the case; sources saying the con man told people he’d show up to places like the funeral home. As first revealed by The Daily Telegraph Hollywood’s hottest have been targeted in a cruel telephone hoax by the man claiming to be Kim Ledger the grieving father of Heath. LISTEN T THE CNMAN CAUGHT N TAPE BELW… The hoaxer even got them to send free stuff to their rooms "when nobody was there" a source said. And the man falsely claiming to be Kim Ledger spoke on the phone with the doctor who performed the autopsy on the ". Earlier minders acting for several devastated stars duped by the conman raised the alarm after questioning why Ledger’s Perth-based parents would be calling from a British mobile phone number. The fraudster had made a tearful appeal to one star to appear at the actor’s private funeral in Western Australia later this week before requesting more help in securing direct telephone numbers for other stars.
India Uncovers Kidney Racket
Washington Post – Jan 30, 2008
"Saleem was the latest in a long list of poor laborers who had come to Gurgaon to work and lost their kidneys as a result. Police say they were victims of a major organ-trafficking racket based in this city for nearly a decade. The scam was discovered last week after police acting on a tip from a middleman raided the bungalow where Saleem had been held. They said they found a labyrinthine kidney bazaar run by a group of men posing as doctors. Five suspects were arrested. Since then police from several Indian provinces have launched a massive joint investigation into the alleged traffickers who police said robbed poor people of their kidneys and sold them to rich patients around the world. Several people who were believed to be among the intended recipients of the organs have been detained including four Greeks and a couple from… "We first arrested him in 1994" Rakesh Maria Mumbai’s joint commissioner of police said in a telephone interview. "He was operating under the name Santosh Rameshwar Raut back then. He was supplying poor people’s kidneys to clients in.
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