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Letters

Finally, scammers used physical letters to defraud US citizens. This is still the legitimate way that the IRS contacts someone when they wish to initiate a correspondence. These letters were used to also request users to give out their personal information and at times banking information. However, there were fewer reports of these types of scams since they involved too much work. But still, some of them were still successful. This is because US citizens take the IRS very seriously and do not normally dismiss any communication from it. The principles used in this type of pretext were two, research and simple pretexts. Research had to be done so as to find out the actual mailboxes of the targets. Again, this is information that is ...