Sunday, June 24, 2012

Verify Phone Numbers of Tax Service Offices

Identity theft is more possible and usual during tax season. Private citizens get shocked and dismayed when they are to file their taxes and find that someone else have filed it for them already. This is indeed frustrating. Many have reported being a victim of identity theft during the tax season.

One way criminals get your personal numbers stolen is via a phone call. The caller will present himself as a worker from a Tax Service Office and will offer tax filing for your convenience. Of course, since you know how tasking filing taxes are, you grab the offer. This is when your identity gets stolen. When you get the call, do a reverse phone lookup to make sure that a tax service office is really calling you. Do not give out your personal numbers readily. Make sure that the transaction is legal and real. Better yet, go visit a tax service office personally. If you cannot do so, make sure you have verified the number that called you and you did necessary investigation about the call and the caller. Give your personal numbers only when you are the one who called the office and ensure that you are talking to the official representative.

Being careful is very vital these days. Stolen money and identity among other crimes have been connected with telephone calls. Be on your guard at all times and do not readily trust anyone calling you especially if the call is an unsolicited one.

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