Yeah this happens more than just with Turbo Tax. It used to be a scam that prisoners did by requesting 1040 forms and having some help on the outside to make b

Yeah this happens more than just with Turbo Tax. It used to be a scam that prisoners did by requesting 1040 forms and having some help on the outside to make bank accounts to direct deposit the money for refunds into it. They would get fake W2 forms and make them from fictitious companies and enter a large withholding tax on them. File the 1040EZ form with the standard deduction and file a state form too for extra money. Everything was done via postal mail before Turbo Tax and others provided e-filing. A friend of our family had someone file taxes as her, and we think the SSN got stolen from the church we go to by ex-employees because they need it for donation tracking. She hadn't filed taxes in a while and Turbo Tax would not help and she was seeking an accountant to find out someone else already filed taxes as her. I buy the desktop Turbo Tax edition and I try to file early before anyone else can file as me. I am disabled and don't make a lot, but there have been many data breaches that include SSNs over the past decade or so. When I had a student loan, someone stole a laptop with a harddrive on it that had SSNs and other info on it from the company that managed my student loan. Actually if people are getting SSNs from outside of Turbo Tax they can e-file with the other tax filing software as well.