scammers

They call, they email and they mail. They sound official on the phone, or their "notices" look official on paper. It has been a really hot summer for scam artists posing as federal agents or the Internal Revenue Service, trying to get unwary consumers to send them money by intimidating and threatening them.

Warnings from the Internal Revenue Service about what they call their, "dirty dozen," 12 tax season scams designed to separate taxpayers from their money.

Unscrupulous contractors are being targeted with the creation of the Monmouth County Superstorm Sandy Fraud Task Force.