WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Service today reminded taxpayers who receive requests from the IRS to verify their identities that the Identity Verification Service website, idverify.irs.gov, offers ...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is ramping up efforts to thwart identity theft. As part of those efforts, IRS is reminding taxpayers who receive requests from the IRS to verify their identities ...

The phishing e-mails tell the victim his account has been suspended “due to account activity that violates the Patriot Act,” and instructs him to use a system called IDVerify to confirm bank account ...

Part of its efforts to stop identity theft, the IRS is flagging suspicious tax returns and asking taxpayers to verify their identities. If you receive such a written request, the fastest way to ...

Scammers are trying to steal banking information using fake e-mails that look like they’ve come from the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the FDIC warned Wednesday. The phishing e-mails ...