Can scammers trick your tax preparer?

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Your tax preparer may be a pro at helping you tax secure savings, but that doesn’t mean he or she knows how to avoid scammers. New “spear phishing” email campaigns aim to trick tax preparers into giving up their IRS account information or otherwise hand over private information about their clients. Then, the fraudsters can steal your refund.

To learn more about this new scam and how to prevent it from happening to you, read this Bamboozled column on NJ.com.