Identity theft is a growing concern, and as tax season approaches, there’s increased risk that people will be victims of tax return fraud—when scammers attempt to file under other people’s ...

Criminals combine a real person's Social Security number with other real or made-up details to trick credit issuers.

One of the most widely known and feared types of identity theft is credit card fraud, accounting for almost ... Experian®, Equifax®, and TransUnion®. Tax Return Thieves—Keeping your Social ...

If a criminal steals a Social Security number, they could piece it together with other real or fake details to create an ...

Tax-related identity theft is common, but the Internal Revenue Service is often too slow to move when victims are awaiting ...

The FTC said that it received 2.6 million reports of fraud last year, with nationwide fraud losses topping $10 billion.

and employment or tax-related fraud all decreased year over year. Credit card fraud was the most common type of identity theft in the first three quarters of 2024, with 327,000 reported cases.

An independent watchdog finds the IRS has improved its overall taxpayer service through Democrats' Inflation Reduction Act ...

One in four kids will be the victim of identity theft or fraud. Here’s how the government is making it worse. Children are surprisingly frequent victims of identity theft—around 25 percent of them ...

leaving easy paths for identity theft open. The IRS is legally required to inform parents if their child's identity is being used to commit tax fraud. But according to an article in The Dispatch ...