CNBC, By Jennifer Schlesinger
The deadline for filing your taxes was April 15, but tax scammers have no deadline.
In a quest for personal information and money even after filing deadlines, scammers often impersonate the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
"The IRS encourages taxpayers to be vigilant year round against phone and email scams that use the IRS as a lure," the IRS said in a statement e-mailed to CNBC.com. "These scams won't likely end with the filing season so the IRS urges everyone to remain on guard," the IRS said in the email.
Can you trust caller ID?
Since October, the IRS has been warning Americans about a sophisticated phone scam that remains pervasive and frequently targets immigrants. The scam has cost the victims more than $1 million, and there have been roughly 20,000 reports of the scam, according to a Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration press release. Read more.
