Tax collectors now hitting social networks to collect

Liberal_in_LA

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Mon Aug-31-09 03:29 PM
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Tax collectors now hitting social networks to collect

Be very careful what you say on Facebook, MySpace, or any other social network site -- especially if you owe money to the government.

That's the lesson being offered by the Wall Street Journal this week, whch reports on numerous cases where tax collectors have used information that people have posted about themselves on social networking sites in order to track them down and collect on tax debts.

Just about any kind of update can be used against you, it seems. One deejay posted on his MySpace page that he'd be working at an upcoming party. Agents decided to crash it to collect their cash. Another man announced he was moving back to his home town and published the name of his new boss. Finding him to collect on an old tax bill was a matter of ease.

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/148083

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DJ13

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Mon Aug-31-09 03:38 PM
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1. F*ck them, Haliburton made me rich!

They try to take my money, I'll take 'em hunting!

-signed,
Dick Cheney

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