{"id":1464,"date":"2023-06-15T14:34:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T18:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/socialengineering\/?page_id=1464"},"modified":"2026-02-11T09:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:41:14","slug":"tax-and-social-engineering","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/socialengineering\/previous-events\/se_2024\/tax-and-social-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Summer Competition Theme: Tax Scams and Social Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IRS shared its annual\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/newsroom\/irs-wraps-up-2023-dirty-dozen-list-reminds-taxpayers-and-tax-pros-to-be-wary-of-scams-and-schemes-even-after-tax-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dirty Dozen\u00a0list of tax scams for 2023<\/a>. According to IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel, scammers are &#8220;coming up with new ways all the time to try to steal information from taxpayers&#8221;. So what exactly are these ways? Come find out how cybercriminals are using social engineering in employment and tax scams.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1664\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/socialengineering\/files\/2026\/02\/2024_Logos_Banner_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2706\" height=\"260\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IRS shared its annual\u00a0Dirty Dozen\u00a0list of tax scams for 2023. According to IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel, scammers are &#8220;coming up with new ways all&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/socialengineering\/previous-events\/se_2024\/tax-and-social-engineering\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2024 Summer Competition Theme: Tax Scams and Social Engineering<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2224,"featured_media":0,"parent":1867,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1464","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/socialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/socialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/socialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/socialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/socialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/socialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2923,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/socialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1464\/revisions\/2923"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/socialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/socialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}