{"id":4703,"date":"2019-02-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/tips-to-protect-yourself-from-tax-scams\/"},"modified":"2022-02-07T12:31:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T16:31:28","slug":"tips-to-protect-yourself-from-tax-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/06\/tips-to-protect-yourself-from-tax-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips to Protect Yourself from Tax Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Too many people downplay the threat of identity theft because it hasn’t been witnessed or experienced firsthand. This false sense of security can leave you exposed, especially during tax season. Here are some tips to keep your identity safe from scammers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Be smart when handling your personal information. Don\u2019t get caught off guard by identity theft, especially by being careless. If you think you are a victim of a tax scam, alert the IRS right away and go to identitytheft.gov<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Too many people downplay the threat of identity theft because it hasn’t been witnessed or experienced firsthand. This false sense of security can leave you exposed, especially during tax season. Here are some tips to keep your identity safe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"post_statement":"","post_description":"","post_cta":"","post_button":"Read More","post_button_url":"","compliance_id":"","post_disclaimer":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[35,189,190,191],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5291,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions\/5291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}