IRS renews e-mail alert following new scams.

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Recent increases in e-mail scams prompted the IRS to remind taxpayers to be on the lookout for bogus e-mails claiming to be the IRS.

Scam e-mails trick recipients into disclosing personal and financial information that could be used to steal the recipients' identity and financial assets. IRS officials do not send out unsolicited e-mails asking for personal information, PIN numbers, passwords, credit card or bank account information. E-mail addresses ending with ".edu" seem to be heavily targeted.

The IRS reports that the current scams claim to come from the IRS, tell recipients that they are due a federal tax refund, and direct them to a Web site that appears to be a genuine IRS site. The bogus sites contain...

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