IRS Scams

"The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has suspended its Identity Protection PIN tool, designed to safeguard people at risk from identity theft, because scammers are using it for identity theft."

US taxmen pull plug on anti-identity-theft system used by identity thieves

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/08/irs_antiidentity_theft_pin_number_systems/