Why is an internet radio station sending me a tax refund?
Lincoln Adams | January 28, 2008 @ 6:17 pmGot this in my inbox from the “IRS”:
After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $93.60. Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 6-9 days in order to process it.
A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons. For example submitting invalid records or applying after the deadline.
To access your tax refund online, please click here.
Regards,
Internal Revenue Service
Never mind the fact that I didn’t even do my taxes yet, or that my refund is usually 4 digits, but when you click on the link given, it takes you to an online form that’s hosted on an Internet Radio site called 90sAndNow.com. 
What’s this? The Internal Revenue Service’s attempt to make their agency more hip and cool by handing out refunds to the tune of Backstreet Boys?
I need better filters for my email.
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6 Responses to “Why is an internet radio station sending me a tax refund?”
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Gmail, baby. Yeah, I hate sucking up to Google’s nipple, too, but the fact is that their web presence is so much bigger than the two of us that 98% of all spam is filtered out before we even see it.
OTOH, if you want to know a great spam filter that doesn’t suck off Google’s hind tit, let me know.
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Kate’s right. I get spam in my Gmail Inbox about one every 3 months.
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Actually, I already use Gmail (yes I know, i can’t get away from them). This one came from my original email address that I’ve been using since 2000. Amazingly enough though I don’t get much spam there either, but this one stuck out a bit for obvious reasons.
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I happen to like GMail over Yahoo! or MSN mail. Yahoo! mail is way slowwww, and MSN is just, well, Microsoft. And I do agree that there’s less spam coming in on GMail than on the other two.
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As owner of 90sAndNow.com I apologize. My website was hacked last week and was hijacked to deliver the spam emails. Hopefully most were smart enough to realize that it was a scam. I took the server down until it was secured and have been monitoring the site to ensure that it doesn’t happen again.
Scott
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Man Scott, that sucks. I’m glad you were able to get your server back afterwards though. As a suggestion you might want to post a notice of some sort on the home page (and the page that used to have the fake tax refund form) to let visitors know what happened.
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