That Google result for the IRS might be fake. Here’s how to tell. – Yahoo
Four years ago, my colleague Jeremy B. Merrill wrote about Google directing people to websites that tricked small business owners into thinking they were on the Internal Revenue Service site. People on Reddit forums have also complained for years about being fooled by IRS look-alike websites.
But Google keeps enabling this trickery.
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In my recent Google searches related to obtaining a business taxpayer identification number – which the IRS requires of many organizations – the “sponsored” results (a.k.a., ads) at the top sometimes showed sites with “IRS” or “Gov” in their web addresses. But they were not the IRS.
The fine print on some of those websites says the sites are not from the government but paid middlemen that offer to help businesses get their taxpayer ID numbers. The IRS hands out these ID numbers free on its website in minutes.
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