{"id":13292,"date":"2015-05-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/swatting-hoax-in-culpeper-linked-to-irs-scam\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:00:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:00:38","slug":"swatting-hoax-in-culpeper-linked-to-irs-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/swatting-hoax-in-culpeper-linked-to-irs-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"“Swatting” hoax in Culpeper linked to IRS scam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most people I talk to about their IRS problem have already built the worst-case scenario in their head. The reality is usually much more manageable. I'm Darrin Mish, and I've been representing taxpayers before the IRS for 32 years. Here's what actually tends to happen.<\/p>\n

www.dailyprogress.com \u2014 The Culpeper County Sheriff’s Office responded this weekend to an unfounded report of a person with a gun in the 14600 block of Carrico Mills Road only to find it was a “swatting” hoax.
\nAccording to the FBI, individuals who engage in this fraudulent activity use technology to make it appear that an emergency call is coming from the victim’s home. Swatting is sometimes done for revenge, and other times as a prank.<\/p>\n

Read more about “Swatting” hoax in Culpeper linked to IRS scam<\/a><\/p>\n

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

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Most people I talk to about their IRS problem have already built the worst-case scenario in their head. The reality is usually much more manageable. I'm Darrin Mish, and I've been representing taxpayers before the IRS for 32 years. Here's what actually tends to happen. www.dailyprogress.com \u2014 The Culpeper County Sheriff’s Office responded this weekend […]<\/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-13292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13292","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=13292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22523,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13292\/revisions\/22523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}