IRS: Tips to protect yourself from scammers

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Special Edition IRS tax advice 2015-18SP In this edition IRS urges the public to be alert for fraudulent calls The IRS continues to warn consumers to protect themselves against fraudulent phone calls of thieves trying to steal their money or identity. Imposters posing as the IRS to trick victims and get your money or personal information. Here are some tips to help you avoid becoming a victim of these scams: The scammers make unexpected calls. Thieves call taxpayers and tell them to be IRS officials. They require that the victim pay a bill of false tax. They defraud the victim demanding to send them cash, usually through a prepaid debit card or bank transfer. They also leave "urgent" messages returned the phone call through "robo-calls" (prerecorded voices), or through emails called phishing. Thieves callers try to scare their victims. Many phone scams use threats to intimidate and harass a victim to pay. They may even threaten to arrest, deport or revoke the license of their victims if they don´t receive the money. Scammers use a fake ID calls. Scammers often alter the caller ID to make it look as if the IRS or other agency is calling. Callers use titles IRS and false identification numbers that look legitimate. They can use the name, address and other personal information of the victim to the call ring official. The scammers always use new tricks. Some schemes provide an actual IRS address where they say the victim to mail a receipt of payment made. Others use emails containing a false document with the IRS phone number or email address to respond. These scams often use letterhead with the IRS logo in emails or mail they send to their victims. They use these strategies to look official. The scams have cost to the victims more than $ 23 million. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, or (TIGTA for its acronym in English), has received reports of about 736,000 contact scam since October 2013. Nearly 4,550 victims have altogether paid more than $ 23 million as a result of fraud.  The IRS does not: Will call and demand an immediate payment. The IRS will not call if you owe taxes without having sent an invoice by mail. Will require that you pay taxes without allow ask or appeal the amount due. Will required to pay their taxes in a certain way. For example, telling you pay with a debit card pre-paid. Will ask your credit card number or debit card through the phone Threatening to report you to the police or other agencies in order to arrest you for failure to pay.  If you don´t owe taxes or have no reason to think that:  Do not give any information. Hang up immediately. Contact the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA, for its acronym in English). Use the IRS website Impersonation Scam Reporting. You can also call the 800-366-4484. Report also the Federal Trade Commission about the incident. Use the Wizard option FTC Complaint in FTC.gov. Please add "IRS Telephone Scam" to the report comments.  If you know that you owe money, or think it:  Call the IRS at 800-829-1040. IRS representatives can help you.  The scammers phone calls first tried to defraud the elderly, new immigrants to the US and those who speak English as a second language. Now the thieves trying to scam everyone. They have defrauded people in every state in the nation.  Be alert to scams that use the IRS as a hook. Tax frauds can happen at any time of year, not only in the tax season. For more information, visit Tax Fraud / Problems Alert on IRS.gov.  Each and every one of the contributors have a set of fundamental rights that should know when dealing with the IRS. These are the Taxpayer Bill of Rights. Explore your rights and our obligations to protect on IRS.gov.  IRS YouTube Videos: • Tax Scams - Spanish | English | ESL IRS podcasts: ·         • Tax Scams - Spanish | English

DCFS informations

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• If you are sending your package to request a new license, send it to the office of Waukegan, 500 N Green Bay Rd, Waukegan IL 60085. Then, to renew, making changes, additional paperwork, send all to your office Elgin 595 S State St, Elgin IL 60123. Ph 847-888-7620. Fax 847-888-5583.

• If you receive a visit that will live for a while at home, tell DCFS that there is another person in your house, and you should take phishing, and fingerprints. If he are 18 years or older, you should use the green form.

• Have an assistant is optional. The assistant can take and collect children from school if he have a valid license and the car qualifies.

• The assistant must have updated CPR and First Aid.

• If a child under 18 years is helping you, you can never be left alone with children. For example,you cannot leave him in the yard with the kids while you're cooking at home. He has to be where you can see and hear them.

• The license form Child Support Certification only must be signed by the applicant and spouse, not children or assistant.

• In the green form of physical, DCFS only asks you tuberculosis test in the initial license. Therefore it is not necessary for DCFS, but the doctor may ask for it.

• People in the house who are 17 years or less do not present the green form, but the phishing when they go to school.

• The children phishing is valid for 2 years, the providers and members of the house phishing for 3.

• If your crib is before April 2011 you can only have it if the manufacturer has a certificate that meets current safety standards. Check safety standards https://www.cpsc.gov/cpsclist.aspx to see if your crib is considered safe.

• Keep next to the phone and in the medicine cabinet a list of emergency phone: Abuse number: 1-800-252-2873 or 1-800-25.  Local police and fire telephone: 911. And the telephone numbers of parents .

• Immediately notify all changes and renovations in your home to DCFS.

• Put the radon test results with his license.

• Gurnee: there are areas where it is not allowed babysitting. Check with city codes before buying a home child care. If you are already caring, stay quiet, and  not ask.

• Keep your contract, the fire plan and safety plan. You can get it at http://thechildcarenetworkoflakecounty.blogspot.com/ blog but you need to adapt it.

• The contract must have the discipline policy, the emergency plan, including where to leave children, and consequences for being late.

• Each year you must renew your Gateways card.

• To renew it, don’t send copies of certificates of training, print the list of workouts, and send. However you need to keep a copy of the training that has not been given by INCCRRA.

If you need help with Gateways, call 309-557-1818 English, 309-834-1230 Leticia, in Spanish. Or go with Belem Estrada 847-263-8324; she will charge you $ 25 per hour that occupy.