A New Tax-Related Scam

What would you do if you received an apparently official letter from the IRS directing you to enroll in a “Digital Asset Compliance Portal”?  The letter includes a QR. Code which, when scanned, takes you to a website that looks very much like IRS.gov.  It looks real.

You should not scan the code, warns the IRS in a recent news report.  There is no “Digital Asset Compliance Portal,” it is an elaborate scam designed to steal personal information, cryptocurrency wallet information, exchange account credentials, and other sensitive information.

Instead, said the IRS, stop communicating with the scam artist, change the passwords on your financial accounts, preserve screenshots, emails and letters, and send a report to www.IRS.gov/SubmitATip.

How did the fraudsters obtain the names and addresses of the cryptocurrency holders?  The IRS news report did not speculate, nor did it discuss how many taxpayers may have been duped to date.

You can’t be too careful.

(August 2026)

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