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Insufficient programming on a government Web site is helping cybercriminals pose as the Internal Revenue Service in a scam to collect sensitive data, some security experts warn.
A spam e-mail message has been sent around the world telling people they are eligible for a $571.94 tax refund from the IRS. The e-mail offers a link to a fraudulent IRS Web site, but the link actually goes through a legitimate government Web site that only last month was promoted by President Bush.
