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Subject Tax Tip 2024-64: Scam safety tip: Follow IRS verified social media accounts and subscribe to e-news services
Date July 30, 2024 2:27 PM
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Issue Number:  Tax Tip 2024-64

*Scam safety tip: Follow IRS verified social media accounts and subscribe to e-news services*

 

Following inaccurate tax advice from social media influencers can have bad consequences. Taxpayers can protect themselves from misinformation and scams by following the IRS verified social media accounts and e-news services.

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* *X, formerly Twitter *–* *Information for taxpayers, businesses, tax-exempt organizations, tax professionals and job seekers. The IRS shares updates in English, Spanish, Chinese, Haitian-Creole, Korean, Russian and Vietnamese. A special IRS X handle, @IRStaxsecurityshares information to help people avoid common scams that could put their money and information at risk.

* *Facebook *–* *Tax information for a general audience in English and Spanish.

* *Instagram *−* *Taxpayer-friendly information on a variety of topics. 

* *YouTube *− Short videos on specific tax topics for individual taxpayers, tax professionals and small businesses. The IRS also produces videos in Spanish, Chinese, Haitian-Creole, Korean, Russian, Vietnamese and American Sign Language.

* *LinkedIn *– Job opportunities and key* *agency communications.

The IRS *never* contacts taxpayers on social media to ask for their personal or financial information. Taxpayers should be aware that scammers may pose as the IRS to steal a taxpayer's identity or defraud them.

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