A scam to get your identity - right!!!

[Bobbieo]

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
United States Department of the Treasury

Dear Taxpayer,

After the last annual calculations of your fiscal
activity we have determined that you are eligible
to receive a tax refund of $184.80.

Please submit the tax refund request and allow us
6-9 days in order to process it.

A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons.
For example submitting invalid records or applying
after the deadline.

To access the form for your tax refund, use the following personalized link:

link deleted ---------

Regards,
Internal Revenue Service

[mikelgb]

1. I wouldn't touch that url with a ten-foot ethernet cable

[Speck Tater]

2. Please delete the bogus link from your post. NT

[Bobbieo]

5. Needed to verify this is a scam before I post on my blog!!!

[MADem]

6. Blog, Schmog. Send the full email with headers to the IRS and FBI. NT

[cloudbase]

3. They only offered me

a refund of $103.40. Now I'm jealous.

[hobbit709]

4. Phony as hell on several counts

1. IRS doesn't contact you by email
2. Not the official IRS URL
3. even if it was valid, the IRS would know your real name.

I fill these phishing attempts with my own bogus info
I usually use George Bush, etc. Mother's maiden name I put "Demonspawn" and for phone number I usually put the FBI's consumer fraud 800 number.

[Art_from_Ark]

7. That's pretty funny

"...and for phone number I usually put the FBI's consumer fraud 800 number."

That somehow reminds me of an old Clint Eastwood spaghetti western where Eastwood takes the money out of the bad guy Indio's treasure box and replaces it with a wanted poster of Indio.