Today's Fun Spam Email

The IRS hoaxsters are out there trying to get your personal information by waving the president's economic stimulus payments at you through their scam email. This is the one I just got:

Over 130 million Americans will receive refunds aspart of President Bush program to jumpstart the economy.

Our records indicate that you are qualified to receive the2008 Economic Stimulus Refund.

The fastest and easiest way to receive your refund is bydirect deposit to your checking/savings account.

Please click on the link and fill out the form and submit before May 02th, 2008 to ensure that your refund will be processed as soon as possible.

Submitting your form on May 02th, 2008 or later means that your refund will be delayed due to the volume of requests we anticipate for the Economic Stimulus Refund.

To access Economic Stimulus Refund, please click here.

© Copyright 2008, Internal Revenue Service U.S.A. All rights reserved.

Since when does the Internal Revenue Service copyright their emails? The spammer clearly though that would add some credibility to the message, but it's pretty much a dead giveaway that this is a scam.

When you look at the actual link, it goes off to who knows where (http://e1t.us/catalog/images/.,./.refund/refunds.php) and certainly has nothing to do with the IRS. The date angle is kind of cute, too. The spammer obviously knows that people are already getting their payments and if he doesn't act fast, he'll miss out on the government gravy train.

Be careful out there.