The IRS sent 655 refund checks to a single address in Lithuania and 343 refund checks to a single address in Shanghai.
You’d think after the tenth check went out some kind of an alarm would have gone off(?) USA Today reported:
The Internal Revenue Service sent 655 tax refunds to a single address in Kaunas, Lithuania — failing to recognize that the refunds were likely part of an identity theft scheme. Another 343 tax refunds went to a single address in Shanghai, China.
Thousands more potentially fraudulent refunds — totaling millions of dollars — went to places in Bulgaria, Ireland and Canada in 2011.
In all, a report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration today found 1.5 million potentially fraudulent tax returns that went undetected by the IRS, costing taxpayers $3.2 billion.
Those numbers are from an audit of 2011 data, and the IRS said it’s put dozens of measures in place since then to crack down on the problem.
Quote: ThirstyMan wrote in post #2And they won't see this as a huge problem?
Well it's not their money !
Seriously IBM offered to fix this kind of problem for Medicare and Medicare for free, just for the publicity. It was turned down. This demonstrates the utter lack of respect given to the wealth confiscated from the middle class.