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Anti-Telemarketing Bot Strikes Back at Phone Scammers
Telemarketing scams such as the fake IRS phone scam and fake Windows Tech Support phone scam cost Americans hundreds of millions of dollars last year and it often targets vulnerable citizens such as the elderly and new immigrants. There are several examples on YouTube of those trying to fight back…
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IRS Hacked By The Same Issue They Were Protecting People From
Last year the US Internal Revenue System revealed that they had been hacked. At first they said that up to 100,000 people were affected by the hack, only to then bump that up to 334, 000 in August. The latest figures put that closer to 724,000 and set to only get…
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Can Bitcoin Be Taxed? The IRS Seems Clueless
How do we define Bitcoin? Is it a commodity, an asset, a currency? It seems that opinions are different everywhere you look. For example, a federal judge considers Bitcoin as a currency, while the Internal Revenue Service has not decided upon adopting it as an actual currency. “The IRS is…
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