{"id":28665,"date":"2020-04-15T15:51:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T19:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28665"},"modified":"2020-04-15T15:51:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T19:51:21","slug":"intercepting-economic-impact-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/15\/intercepting-economic-impact-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Intercepting Economic Impact Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2020\/04\/new-irs-site-could-make-it-easy-for-thieves-to-intercept-some-stimulus-payments\/\">Brian Krebs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2020\/04\/new-irs-site-could-make-it-easy-for-thieves-to-intercept-some-stimulus-payments\/\"><p>The U.S. federal government is now in the process of sending Economic Impact Payments by direct deposit to millions of Americans. Most who are eligible for payments can expect to have funds direct-deposited into the same bank accounts listed on previous years&rsquo; tax filings sometime next week. Today, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) stood up a site to collect bank account information from the many Americans who don&rsquo;t usually file a tax return.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>However, the possibility that fraudsters may intercept payments to these individuals seems very real, given the relatively lax identification requirements of this non-filer portal and the <a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/page\/3\/?s=tax+irs&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\">high incidence of tax refund fraud in years past<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It sounds like the only defense is to register yourself first.<\/p>\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/15\/register-your-own-irs-account\/\">Register Your Own IRS Account<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Krebs: The U.S. federal government is now in the process of sending Economic Impact Payments by direct deposit to millions of Americans. Most who are eligible for payments can expect to have funds direct-deposited into the same bank accounts listed on previous years&rsquo; tax filings sometime next week. Today, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-04-15T19:51:23Z","apple_news_api_id":"055c3aa7-719c-4333-b376-91d8429de172","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-04-15T19:51:24Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ABVw6p3GcQzOzdpHYQp3hcg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1931,1195,48,1196,96],"class_list":["post-28665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-covid-19","tag-financial","tag-security","tag-taxes","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28666,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28665\/revisions\/28666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}