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On the recordJune 8, 2009
Two weeks ago, I got the best e-mail that I could possibly imagine. It was from the IRS! And they told me that I had a refund coming.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin shares a personal experience about a phishing scam pretending to be from the IRS.

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