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Tax identity theft is huge. Right now the taxpayer advocate says, there are over 650,000
unresolved tax identity theft cases.
The reason Identity Theft is so pervasive, is someone is taking a taxpayer's name, and
social, and date of birth, they are filing a return in that person's name. They are changing
the address to some perhaps fictitious address, perhaps a real address. Because they're going
to get the refund on a cash card, usually a debit card, which is almost ah nameless.
And so the address means nothing, other than the IRS needs an address when you file a tax
return. All of the follow-on correspondence from the IRS goes to that fraudster's address,
and from that point on, the taxpayer, until they find out they're a victim, they may be
getting ready to be levied by the IRS for not answering the letters.