American citizens who receive an e-mail notice from “Laura Stevens” of US “Internal Revenue Service public relations” asking them to fill out a document with personal data and fax it back should disregard it. The phony report is part of a scam to steal people’s identity.

The report has been sent to hundreds of thousands of folks around the world from the official-looking e-mail address nonereply@irs.gov. The IRS’s official Web site is www.irs.gov, but it never sends e-mail messages with forms asking to be filled out, according to the IRS itself.

After that reporter received four such e-mail messages — despite having never having shared her e-mail address with the IRS — one Google search of “Laura Stevens IRS” produced by 1,100 mentions that warn of a scam.

The letter begins: “Our records indicate that you are a non-resident alien. As a aftermath, you are exempted from United States of America Tax reporting and withholdings, on interest paid you on your explanation and other financial dealing to protect your exemption from tax on your explanation and other financial benefit in rectifying your exemption status. Therefore, you are to authenticate the following by completing anatomy W-4100B2, and return to us as soon as possible through [a fax number].”

The truth is that while the fax number exists, the US tax authorities did not send that “IRS desire for Recertification of Foreign Status” and there is no such official anatomy.

“The anatomy requests biographical knowledge typically used for identity theft,” the real IRS in New York states on an Net warning.

The fake scheme asks for one’s name, moment and place of birth, nationality, country of permanent residence, passport number, the name of one’s spouse and mother, permanent address, Social defense number, bank name and detail number, and how often one comes to the US. A photocopy of…

[Source] dhiram