This seems like an annual warning. It is becoming a tax season tradition. Hackers send out email hoping to phish for and steal tax payers’ identities. The IRS is not sending you email:

“…E-mails on legitimate-looking IRS letterhead claiming the recipient is owed $134.80 are popping up in people’s inboxes. To collect, they ask you to fill out a form with your Social Security number, credit card number and PIN code, and your phone number, address and e-mail.

“We would never send you an e-mail for any reason,” said Stewart, who works in the agency’s Philadelphia office. “It’s just not a secure way of sending information.”"

link: Be wary of IRS e-mails offering refunds

This is an identity theft ploy. Delete that email and wait for your snail mail.

Catherine Forsythe
Director of Operations
FlyingHamster:  http://flyinghamster.com/

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