Tax-Related Phishing Scams on the Rise, Cyber Security Experts Warn

If you haven’t filed your taxes yet, you may want to get to it: cyber security experts, who track online malicious activity, predict tax-themed phishing scams will surge as we approach the new July 15 tax deadline. Mark Ostrowski says the unprecedented situation we are in with the coronavirus pandemic opens up the potential for more electronic scams. He says scammers are sending malicious documents, impersonating the IRS, to unsuspecting victims. Taxpayers need to be vigilant with their online activity, he says.