skip to main content
skip to newscasts

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Public News Service Logo
facebook instagram linkedin reddit youtube twitter
view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

SD public defense duties shift from counties to state; SCOTUS appears skeptical of restricting government communications with social media companies; Trump lawyers say he can't make bond; new scholarships aim to connect class of 2024 to high-demand jobs.

view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

The SCOTUS weighs government influence on social media, and who groups like the NRA can do business with. Biden signs an executive order to advance women's health research and the White House tells Israel it's responsible for the Gaza humanitarian crisis.

view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

Midwest regenerative farmers are rethinking chicken production, Medicare Advantage is squeezing the finances of rural hospitals and California's extreme swing from floods to drought has some thinking it's time to turn rural farm parcels into floodplains.

Tax-Time Scammers Target Granite State

play audio
Play

Monday, April 9, 2018   

CONCORD, N.H. — With the end of tax season approaching, officials are warning Granite Staters to be cautious of suspicious phone calls.

The Attorney General's office said it has received about 100 complaints related to Internal Revenue Service scams in the past week. Senior Assistant Attorney General James Boffetti explained the calls are either a live person or recorded message claiming to be from the IRS, and threatening arrest or other legal action unless there is an immediate payment for delinquent taxes.

"A lot of very savvy people get tricked by this stuff. It is disconcerting - and for some people, frightening - to be told that they're subject to being arrested, even if they know that they don't have any IRS issue,” Boffetti said. “But if you do get tricked into making the payment, you're probably going to take that loss. "

Boffetti said often, the money goes quickly overseas and is nearly impossible to track. He added the IRS does not contact taxpayers through phone calls or email to request personal or financial information. If there is a tax issue, the agency sends a letter through the mail.

Based on the information from complaints, Boffetti noted these particular scam artists are targeting older adults.

"There are so many data breaches that have happened," he said. "And my theory is that this information from the data breaches is sold off to scam artists and they use that to determine who may be more vulnerable. And they've decided that senior citizens are a population that they want to target."

If someone receives one of these calls, his advice is to not engage with the person on the other line and immediately hang up. The Attorney General's office said personal information should never be provided over the phone or email to anyone, unless the source of the inquiry has been verified.

More information is available at AARP.org.


get more stories like this via email

more stories
Corporate partners sign contracts to offer a graduate assistantship and pay the students. In turn, MSU pays the graduate assistant's tuition, fees and salary, so the assistantship is directly tied to the academic experience. (pressmaster/Adobe Stock)

play sound

By Victoria Lim for WorkingNation.Broadcast version by Farah Siddiqi for Missouri News Service reporting for the WorkingNation-Public News Service Col…


Social Issues

play sound

A new report brands Connecticut's tax system as "regressive" for low- to middle-income residents and uses a report from the state to make its point…

Environment

play sound

Backers of a new federal rule said it will increase fairness for livestock and poultry producers, in North Carolina and across the country. The U.S…


A study by the advocacy group Inseparable showed one in five adults said at any given time, they consider their mental health to be either 'fair' or 'poor.' (Adobe Stock)

Health and Wellness

play sound

Mental health care advocates are encouraging federal agencies to adopt a proposed update to regulations which would expand access to psychological car…

Social Issues

play sound

With hotter summers bringing hotter working conditions, the Maryland Department of Labor is implementing a heat stress standard to protect workers …

Social Issues

play sound

By Jimmy Cloutier for OpenSecrets.Broadcast version by Roz Brown for Texas News Service reporting for the OpenSecrets-Public News Service Collaboratio…

Environment

play sound

Recreational fishermen in New England say commercial trawlers are threatening the survival of smaller businesses relying on a healthy stock of Atlanti…

 

Phone: 303.448.9105 Toll Free: 888.891.9416 Fax: 208.247.1830 Your trusted member- and audience-supported news source since 1996 Copyright © 2021