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Scam targets your tax refund

This could come as a real shock: You send in your tax return and then you get word from the IRS that the agency already has it. Your refund has been sent out to some other address.

Tags: taxes, hank silverberg, Fairfax County Police, Jim Bacon

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Barbershop owner pleads guilty in $20M tax fraud scheme

The owner of a Southeast barbershop pleaded guilty to charges connected to his role as a ring leader of an elaborate scheme that targeted dead people, drug addicts and people duped into believing they would receive "Obama Stimulus Money."

Tags: Kevin Brown, Ronald Machen, identity theft, D.C.

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Couple sentenced for tax scam in Roanoke

The owners of a defunct tax preparation business in Roanoke have been sentenced for filing false returns to illegally collect about $120,000 in refunds.

Tags: Roanoke,

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Brothers indicted in identity theft, tax fraud

Two brothers have been indicted in an alleged scheme that stole identities to prepare and file false tax returns.

Tags: identity theft,

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