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Fake IRS Agents Target More than 360,000, Make Off With $15.5M in Scam

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Fake IRS Agents Target More than 360,000, Make Off With $15.5M in Scam

Thursday, 12 Mar 2015 10:33 AM

A federal investigator says fake IRS agents have targeted more than 366,000 people with harassing phone calls demanding payments and threatening jail time as part of a huge nationwide scam.

A deputy inspector general for the agency says more than 3,000 people have fallen for the ruse since October 2013. He says they have been duped out of a total of $15.5 million.

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