(Reuters) Here is something the nation's criminals are quickly learning: There's no point in getting yourself all dirty with guns and drugs and the sex trade when you can just scam the Internal Revenue Service.
That turns out to be surprisingly easy to do, in this era of high technology and overloaded IRS workers. Tax fraud connected to identity theft has grown exponentially, as bad actors use stolen Social Security numbers to file fake returns and reap undeserved refunds.
