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Cybersecurity Awareness: Tax Scams [1]

Cybersecurity Awareness
March 7, 2019

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has launched its annual awareness campaign on the 12 most prevalent tax scams, known as the “Dirty Dozen.”

IRS Launches ‘Dirty Dozen’ Campaign on Tax Scams [2]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) encourages taxpayers, businesses, and tax professionals to review the following:

IRS Dirty Dozen Alert [3]:  Warning about pervasive phishing schemes
IRS Dirty Dozen News Releases [4]
Security Tip [5]:  Avoiding Social Engineering and Phishing Attacks

Contact Mike Wilson at mikewilson@cwi.edu [6] or 208.562.3193 with questions or for more information, and stay tuned for more tips and information on cybersecurity awareness in future issues of Bert’s Alerts.

Cyber Defense Center [7]

Source URL:https://cwi.edu/news/employee-news/cybersecurity-awareness-tax-scams

Links
[1] https://cwi.edu/news/employee-news/cybersecurity-awareness-tax-scams [2] https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2019/03/04/IRS-Launches-%E2%80%98Dirty-Dozen%E2%80%99-Campaign-Tax-Scams [3] https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-kicks-off-annual-list-of-most-prevalent-tax-scams-agency-warns-taxpayers-of-pervasive-phishing-schemes-in-its-dirty-dozen-campaign [4] https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/news-releases-for-current-month [5] https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/tips/ST04-014 [6] mailto:mikewilson@cwi.edu [7] https://cwi.edu/news-tags/cyber-defense-center