IRS Won’t Text You About Your Taxes — Ignore the Fake Confirmations

Those texts claiming to confirm your e-file are not from the IRS. They are a straight-up scam aimed at small business owners right before the June 16 deadline.

What Happened

A phishing campaign called TollMite is sending fake IRS e-file confirmation texts. The messages hit small businesses hard because the timing lines up with tax season pressure.

Albert spelled it out plain: the IRS is not going to text you. Don’t respond. Don’t click anything. The whole thing is designed to trick you into handing over information or installing something nasty.

What This Means for Your Business

The real villain here is the wasted time and the risk of a breach that pulls your team away from actual work. One wrong click can turn a busy week into days of cleaning up or worse.

You stay in control when you treat every unexpected text as suspicious. Reacting after the fact is how small teams lose hours they can’t get back.

What To Do This Week

• Tell your team today that the IRS never sends tax texts — make it a quick standing rule.
• Delete any message that claims to be an e-file confirmation without opening links or attachments.
• If a text looks official, go straight to the IRS website yourself instead of using anything in the message.
• Watch for odd behavior on company devices after tax deadlines and flag anything unusual right away.

Questions about how this affects your setup? Schedule a free IT consultation and we’ll walk through it with you.