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Be advised, that the IRS is not going to call you to verify social security numbers or other information from your tax return. They simply don't work that way. If you get a call allegedly from the IRS, hang up. Even answering a few non personal questions can cause problems because there have been reports the callee's voice being recorded and used to get personal information with systems that use voice verification. That seems like a stretch, but why risk it and why waste some of your precious time with these scammers.

Recently, I started getting daily calls from phone numbers that are one digit away from mine. My number ends with 3182 and I'll get calls from 3181 or 3183. Like many people. more often than not I ignore calls from numbers I don't know, but curiosity got the better of me and I answered one of them. The first time, it was an actual human asking why my number had called him several times that day. I told him that I hadn't called him and he must've already known about spoofing because he didn't need anymore explanation, he just said, "Okay, cool" and hung up.