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The third round of stimulus payments are hitting bank accounts, but not all at the same time which is creating an opportunity for scammers.
Scammers are trolling through social media looking for posts that specifically talk about the latest round of stimulus payments. Scammers will then make a comment on those posts that includes a link to the IRS.gov Get My Payment website or at least that s what the link appears to be.
In reality, the links direct you to the scammers copycat website where they ask you to put in personal information so they can steal your money and identity. Many of these fake sites make it look like they re affiliated with legit companies, but they re not.
While some Americans received their 1,400 dollar stimulus checks from the government this weekend, the relaunch of the Get My Payment tool by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has
You can use the IRS online tracker tool to check the status of your third payment. We'll tell you what to do to get an update, now that the IRS has started making bank deposits.