One of our members recently reported what looks to be our very first 2008 IRS phishing-scam email.  Phishing emails look authentic, but the website they direct users to is actually a fake page designed to steal (or "phish") personal information.

I'd suspect that an IRS-phishing scam would be even more dangerous than, say, a similar Facebook scam, since people are used to providing their most personal details to the government.

Notice that the link at the bottom of the email actually below points to: http://www.utleyfamily-tn.org/www.irs.gov/index.htm?memberID=0xCA.0x80.0x1D.0x2

Utleyfamily-tn.org is likely a site that was hacked and is now being used by phishing scammers.