Quote Originally Posted by Bert McMahan View Post
I hope this is the right forum for this.

If you have heard of it, the credit monitoring company Equifax was hacked recently, and the attackers got nearly half the US. I'm no expert here, but I have read that one of the attack vectors for identity theft is that someone will file a fake tax return in your name, attempting to get a refund.
While in the waiting room at the local HR Block office, I've twice overheard an exasperated customer being told that their tax return could not be filed because someone already filed a return in their name.

I don't recall what HR Block advised them to do about it. It was nothing that HR Block could help with.