IRS Funded Fakes
WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Service may have delivered more than $5 billion in refund checks to identity thieves who filed fraudulent tax returns for 2011, Treasury Department investigators said Thursday.
They estimate another $21 billion could make its way to ID thieves over the next five years.
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