OCALA, Fla. — WFTV learned that there are people using fake W-2 forms to cheat tax companies out of instant refund checks. It's a bigger problem than initially thought. The IRS is now ...

One tax scam encourages people to create fake W-2 forms. Fake emails impersonate the IRS, state tax agencies, and software companies. Fraud has no season, but scammers know that the days leading ...

W2s are tax forms sent by employers to workers that ... the potentially bigger the refund. But making up fake information on a W2 is a sure-fire way to get in hot water with the IRS, which ...

He was arguing with a man upset that the fake W-2 forms Baca had previously sold didn't work, Caraway said. "The other individual was trying to get his money back," Caraway said. Baca was picked ...

PALMDALE – Four Palmdale residents are among 11 Californians accused of cheating the United States government out of $1.9 million by filing fraudulent tax returns with fake W-2 forms.

Federal prosecutors have charged a Baton Rouge man who reportedly sold a number of fake documents.A bill of information filed ...

It's likely scammers used a fake W-2, which we discovered are alarmingly ... legally and change the deadline for mailing out W-2 forms to close the window for scammers to get in first.

One tax scam encourages people to create fake W-2 forms. Fake emails impersonate the IRS, state tax agencies, and software companies. Fraud has no season, but scammers know that the days leading ...

Let's say a fake e-mail comes down to the payroll department, requesting copies of all W2 forms. That payroll employee might not recognize that that e-mail is a fake," said Dan Buchta. The Better ...

Watsey was involved in a scheme with family members and others in which they filed 16 fraudulent income tax returns for years 2014 to 2016 with fake W2-G forms. The W2-G is used to report gambling ...

HAMILTON, OH (FOX19) - A Kansas City, Missouri woman has been charged in Cincinnati with scheming to file false claims for federal income tax refunds with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), as ...

faces up to seven years in prison for allegedly creating the fake W-2’s using real Social Security and employer ID numbers. He then allegedly paid recruits to take the fraudulent forms to ...