FBI warns of tax season phone scams
A 20-year-old University of Georgia student last week received a disturbing phone call from someone purporting to be from the federal government who told the student there was a warrant for his arrest due to an unspecified problem with the income tax return he had filed.
When the student wired nearly $2,000 to have the so-called warrant quashed, he became the victim of a phone scam.
According to a recent FBI advisory, a recent uptick in such scams is coinciding with income tax season, with the April 18 deadline for filing tax returns approaching. The traditional April 15 deadline was extended this year due to a little-known Washington, D.C., holiday.
In the scam to which the UGA student recently fell victim, the caller said he was “with the IRS and affiliated with the FBI,” according to an Athens-Clarke County police report.
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