Scammers can smell a big tax refund from a mile away, and this filing season they are moving in on Charlotte-area taxpayers with a fresh wave of phishing texts, fake preparers and bogus “refund ...

Scammers are circulating fraudulent emails claiming to be from the Internal Revenue Service, urging individuals to be cautious.

AI is making tax scams harder to spot, with fake IRS messages, voice‑cloned calls and phony preparers targeting filers. Slow ...