Your taxes are in and the scammers are out. How to avoid tax identity theft...

April 15th has come and gone and scammers are coming out of the woodwork again...

They know a lot of us are anxiously awaiting a refund or fearing an audit and they’d like to take advantage of that. Consumer Reports warns us to ignore emails and social media pretending to be from the IRS. The IRS never contacts taxpayers by email, text message, Facebook or Twitter. They won’t notify you of a refund or audit that way either.

If you get any official looking IRS electronic messages, don’t fall for it. Contact the IRS scam squad at phishing@irs.gov.