WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Service today warned taxpayers of a quickly growing scam involving erroneous tax refunds being deposited into their bank accounts. The IRS also offered a step-by-step explanation for how to return the funds and avoid being scammed.

Following up on a Security Summit alert issued Feb. 2,  the IRS issued this additional warning about the new scheme after discovering more tax practitioners’ computer files have been breached.

Read the full IRS News Release

IR-18-27.doc

and in Spanish

IR-18-27SP.doc