Were Your Taxes Affected By This Massive Arizona Scam?

Tax season is almost over, so you're likely either enjoying your return, or frantically trying to file before the IRS makes your life a living nightmare.

Unfortunately, several taxpayers in Arizona may have lost their taxes due to a massive scam that defrauded the IRS through local taxpayers.

Your Taxes May Have Been Hijacked

This all starts with Jackie Marie Peters, a 53 year old woman from Texas. She wanted more money, just like everybody else, but she decided to get hers a little differently than the hardworking folks like you and me.

From 2020 to 2022 her and her co-conspirators hacked into an Arizona tax service, and began modify tax documents already in the system. These were documents that hard-working Arizona taxpayers spent hours over, all for them to taken over and scammed. These modified documents were then set to give tax returns to 10 separate bank accounts, all of which Peters had control of.

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What Happened with the Money

Over the course of the scam, Peters made off with over $2.5 Million of Arizona tax money. Most of it, prosecutors say, she spent on cryptocurrency with the hopes of raising her wealth significantly. Obviously, that did not happen.

She has finally been caught, and with that, given her sentence. A meager one year and nine months in prison, with a three year supervised release approved for after she completes her initial sentence. This seems like a low bar, especially for a multi-million dollar heist, but we can only hope the IRS has caught on to exactly which documents were modified, so no Arizonan receives an unwanted visit any time soon.

[KTAR]