[TriLUG] OT: Security concern: H&R Block wanted my DL number to do my taxes

[Thomas Delrue via TriLUG]

My tax attorney told me it's a new thing that the IRS is requiring "to
prevent fraud" (implying that it is to prevent your refund going to
someone else, which has indeed been a particular mechanism of fraud in
the last couple of years).
I believe the part about the IRS requiring it, I'm more sceptical about
the fraud part and specifically how it prevents the scam but then I'm on
the paranoid side of the spectrum so YMMV.

On 03/30/2017 06:40 PM, Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG wrote:
> They've been doing my taxes for several years. This year I had to give
> them my DL number before they would do my taxes. This caught me
> unawares. I didn't think to ask what would happen if I refused. They
> just said "We're required to collect it". They didn't say who told them
> to collect it; the IRS, H&R Block...

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