IRS Impersonators During Tax Time

http://www.standard.net/topics/scams/2011/03/06/beware-those-who-impersonate-irs-tax-time

The article discusses the problem of how people have been recently impersonating the Internal Revenue Service in emails and phone calls to individuals requesting personal and sensitive information. The fact that this is occurring just goes to show how easy to access people's information really is. Personal emails, phone numbers, and addresses must be easy to find online which would lead scammers to take advantage of them to contact unsuspecting individuals. The internet is obviously very useful, but there is also a huge cost to our privacy in using it. There are so many ways to be tricked or scammed, and this is just one more way.
Most of these impersonators are from other countries and are taking advantage of the U.S. government system. Something really needs to be done about this, but it is hard to find a simple solution to this widespread problem of internet privacy.