The United States Tax Court has received many telephone calls regarding an email which purports to originate from the Court being sent by and a member of the Tax Court's practitioner bar.
This message is an example of “Spear Phishing,” which is an email spoofing attempt that targets a specific organization. The Tax Court is not disseminating any email notice to anyone who currently has a case before this Court.
If you receive an email with a subject line that includes the text, “US Tax Petition,” along with a malformed docket number following the format #000-000, and a sender address of noreply@ustaxcourt.org, please ignore/delete the email and do not click any link within the email message.
The Internal Revenue Service also does not initiate taxpayer communications via email. In addition, the IRS does not request detailed personal information through email or ask taxpayers for the PIN numbers, passwords or similar secret access information for their credit card, bank or other financial accounts.
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