{"id":13376,"date":"2015-06-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/police-warn-residents-to-watch-out-for-costly-phone-scam\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:03:15","slug":"police-warn-residents-to-watch-out-for-costly-phone-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/police-warn-residents-to-watch-out-for-costly-phone-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Warn Residents to Watch Out for Costly Phone Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you're reading this, something about your tax situation has you worried. That's fair \u2014 the IRS is intimidating until you know how the rules actually work. I'm Darrin Mish, a Tampa tax attorney. I've handled cases like yours for 32 years. Let me walk you through it.<\/p>\n

www.statecollege.com \u2014 Every year thousands of people lose anywhere from a few dollars to their life saving because phone scams.<\/p>\n

It’s no different in State College.<\/p>\n

So far two people have fallen victim to a recent scam and lost more than $4,000 combined.<\/p>\n

Here is how the scam works: A woman calls claiming to be your granddaughter and tells you she is in legal trouble. Then a man comes on the line who claims to be a lawyer and says you need<\/a> to send money using ITunes gift cards so your granddaughter can be released from jail.<\/p>\n

Scams like these are far from rare.<\/p>\n

Read more about Police Warn Residents to Watch Out for Costly Phone Scam<\/a><\/p>\n

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

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If you're reading this, something about your tax situation has you worried. That's fair \u2014 the IRS is intimidating until you know how the rules actually work. I'm Darrin Mish, a Tampa tax attorney. I've handled cases like yours for 32 years. Let me walk you through it. www.statecollege.com \u2014 Every year thousands of people […]<\/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-13376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13376","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=13376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28810,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13376\/revisions\/28810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}