Scammers can smell a big tax refund from a mile away, and this filing season they are moving in on Charlotte-area taxpayers with a fresh wave of phishing texts, fake preparers and bogus “refund ...

Scammers are circulating fraudulent emails claiming to be from the Internal Revenue Service, urging individuals to be cautious.

AI is making tax scams harder to spot, with fake IRS messages, voice‑cloned calls and phony preparers targeting filers. Slow ...

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C. has frozen and seized more than $580 million in cryptocurrency. The funds are tied to “pig butchering” scams run by Southeast ...

As Chief of Police, our agency remains vigilant in providing information to our community members when we observe increasing ...

Federal authorities have frozen or seized more than $580 million in digital assets tied to Chinese transnational criminal organizations, according to the U.S.

A pop-up window on a laptop has cost a Kalamazoo County man more than $1 million, after a fraudster posing as the IRS convinced him to drain his retirement savings and bank accounts.

With taxpayers seeing larger refunds so far this season, consumer experts are warning that scammers are trying to cash in. Early filing data from the Internal Revenue Service show the average tax ...

"These changes will address historic challenges the IRS has faced," according to the federal agency of the United States government.

This tax season, scammers are using artificial intelligence, stolen data, voice cloning, deepfake video and even legitimate tax preparer credentials to manufacture trust.

The IRS has introduced a new website aimed at combating tax fraud and scams, making it easier for individuals to report ...