This is how so many elderly people, and young people to get ripped off. I don't believe the IRS would even send an email. And I certainly wouldn't respond. Then there are those email that says Queen so-in-so, needs your help. She has to put money in an out of the country bank...(US) so could you send your bank information. Most of us are pretty smart about these rip offs. So I feel sorry for the ones who think it is legitamate. As daddy said, "If it sounds to good to be true, then it probably isn't"