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Student Financial Services has been receiving calls and emails from concerned parents about the email below.  The email purports to be from the IRS, but is a phishing scheme.  Do not click on links provided in these kinds of email messages.   The Information Services website has posted a message warning against the spam email as well.

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Internal Revenue Service

May 14th, 2014 | Phishing

Some people are receiving fake emails about income tax information.  Don’t click on links provided in these kinds of email messages.

From: Wake Forest University <someone@xyz.edu>

Date: Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:47 PM
Subject: IRS e-file: Update Now (WFU)
To: 

Internal Revenue Service
Verify and Update your IRS e-file immediately, To Update –  < Click Here >

USA . gov is the U.S. government’s official web portal.

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IRS e-file. Since 1990
This U.S GOVERNMENT SYSTEM IS FOR AUTHORIZED USE ONLY!
Copyright 2014.
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