{"id":13266,"date":"2015-05-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/bbb-warns-of-irs-tax-scam\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:00:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:00:04","slug":"bbb-warns-of-irs-tax-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/bbb-warns-of-irs-tax-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"BBB Warns of IRS Tax Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"

The tax-relief industry loves to make IRS problems sound impossible without them. They're not. I'm Darrin Mish. I've been representing taxpayers before the IRS for 32 years. Let me explain how this actually works.<\/p>\n

www.altondailynews.com \u2014 The Better Business Bureau says scammers are, as usual, playing on the fears of the vulnerable with a new round of scams. Callers posing as Internal Revenue Service agents are using coercion and threats to steal thousands of dollars from unsuspecting victims, according to an investigator with the Better Business Bureau. \u00a0Click here to watch or read more information on IRS Back Taxes.<\/a><\/p>\n

Recent statistics show about 3,300 victims have lost $17-million to the scam nationwide. In all cases, fake IRS agents call taxpayers and demand payment for back taxes<\/a>. In many cases the scammers threaten arrest or deportation.<\/p>\n

Read more about BBB Warns of IRS Tax Scam<\/a><\/p>\n

Check out more IRS News<\/a> stories by clicking that link.<\/p>\n

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The tax-relief industry loves to make IRS problems sound impossible without them. They're not. I'm Darrin Mish. I've been representing taxpayers before the IRS for 32 years. Let me explain how this actually works. www.altondailynews.com \u2014 The Better Business Bureau says scammers are, as usual, playing on the fears of the vulnerable with a new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28314,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266\/revisions\/28314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}