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Scammer email posted Mon Nov 28 17:37:32 2011

Subject: IRS-SUBJ1
Date: Monday 28 November 2011
From: "IRS Tax Notification Department" 

Dear  Taxpayer!You are encouraged to pay a penalty for the failure to file 
income tax returns prior to January 31, 2011.Note, IRC [Section 6038(b)(1)] 
provides for a monetary penalty of $10,000 for each [Form 5471]that is filed 
after the due date of the income tax return or does not include the complete 
and accurate information described in [Section 6038(a)].No penalty will be 
imposed if the company shows that the late filing was due to reasonable 
cause. For more information please refer to attached file.Thanks,Internal 
Revenue Service United States Department of the Treasury.Tue, 29 Nov 2011 
01:09:27 +0100
[attachment deleted]

The above is the actual scammer email received. It has been scrubbed of recipient information.
If you received an email like this you have several choices.

Ignore the scammer. Do not respond to emails. Just delete them.
Respond, but only to lead the scammer on--to get a counterfeit check, to report stolen credit card numbers, and to waste the scammer's time. Time spent trying to scam you is time not spent scamming someone else.
Report the scammer to us and we'll post their emails so others will know about that scammer.

Whichever option you choose make sure you do the following:

DO NOT educate the scammer in any way. Educating a scammer makes them better at scamming the next person.
DO NOT let the scammer know that YOU KNOW they are a scammer. The scammer will always be nice to you if they think there's a chance they may still be able to scam you. If they know they've been discovered they will often threaten you. Their threats are empty, but are scary to some people.
DO NOT give the scammer any personal information that they cannot find in a phone book (name, address, and phone.) Feel free to give them lots of incorrect information.

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