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 ...

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 ...

A Redgranite man used fake W-2 forms to receive almost $6,000 in state income tax refunds, prosecutors allege. Christopher D. Zindars, 39, has been charged with seven counts released to tax fraud.

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 ...

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 ...

But law-enforcement sources and tax pros said all 43-year-old Clayton Harris did to get his wacky windfall was fill out a brief tax return, attach a fake W-2 form, then rely on the state’s ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...