The Internal Revenue Service recently announced it was going to turn over some of their uncollected tax debts to private debt collectors. News of this instantly resulted in, you guessed it, phony tax collectors.

“The IRS warned taxpayers Wednesday not to be duped by scammers posing as private debt collectors the agency has hired to chase unpaid tax debts. The Internal Revenue Service designed the debt collection program to minimize that risk “because we know what it’s like out there with regard to identity theft nowadays,” said Brady Bennett, IRS director of collection.”

From the AP