Having recently filed our income taxes, this email came as a mild surprise:
The From field seemed a bit sketchy, but, hey, maybe the IRS subcontracted their email vendor after having lost much of their staff in the name of efficiency.
The attached PDF document seemed scant:
Yeah, I’m definitely clicking that link …
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3 responses to “Tax Season: 2026 Edition”
getting more of these – I won’t even look at the PDF -sometimes they have a lot of hidden text – I am guessing to try and get around spam filters etc. Telling me there is a problem with my crypto account, or a bonus from my “recent” stay in a hotel chain I have not stayed at in over 20 years, and the list goes on.
Yeah, it’s a wonder I have time for anything around here while staying in so many motels.
The emails telling me that my email usage is full have dried up lately, but generic spam (usually from .space or .store) has been overwhelming. I might have beaten the junk filter in Thunderbird into submission; we’ll see in a few days. I hate to have 50-100 spam messages every day.
At least now that I’m off the Seattle area CPAP vendor’s email list, I don’t have to worry about that getting junked. Supplies are now from the BiPAP DME supplier–they seem to be pretty good. Nice having a regional competitor to the biggies. (Their main business is welding supplies, but hey, everybody needs oxygen…[grin] )