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Protect your finances this tax season

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    Shopper's Market: Identity thieves ramp up efforts

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Identity thieves are ramping up efforts to solicit your personal financial information when your most vulnerable tax season.

Using the fishing technique rosters -- their prey with emails that appear to be sent from reputable institutions.

They simply ask their victims to -- -- -- personal information.

These email scams are highly successful.

And can be hard to be attacked and lets you know what to look for and the common -- really is panic we need your information something is wrong with your tax.

Suspicious emails sent with attachments are read -- No legitimate company is gonna send you any information in an attachment -- -- you have asked for it specifically.

Never click on the one click option an email and -- logging -- and go through -- home page they really do make it easier feud could do it that way.

So that you don't have to click on the line link most do it yourself tax sites should be safe to use the security is very good.

You creative a solid password just like you would for any other type of sensitive account.

And it works really very well still not comfortable doing your taxes online -- -- tax software on a disc and download it on your computer.

All of your information will be stored locally instead of floating out there on the web.

In New York Brenda Buttner Fox News.

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