Just got this nice email today:

  From:  notice@irs.gov
  Subject:  Refund ID:  WBEKTQQLMY
  Date:  February 11, 2008 7:43:10 AM EST
  To:  undisclosed-recipients: ;
  Reply-To:  notice@irs.gov

After the last annual fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund. Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 6-9 days in order to process it.

To access the form for our tax refund calulator [SIC], please copy/paste in your browser the link bellow:

http://www.hashita.co.il/index.htm

Even if this wasn’t an obvious phishing email — see the “undisclosed recipients,” catch that typo, note the link to a non-IRS page? — you should never click on one of these emails and give out your personal information.

If you really think you’ve received a real IRS email about a tax refund — hope is a four-letter word — type in the IRS’s official URL, find their phone number, and call them to check.