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The thing is, these days the taxpayers don't sign the 'return'. They sign the 8879. And if the preparer doesn't go over the return line by line....well I have clients whose eyes glaze over when looking at a tax return. They rely on me to explain it, or just to do it properly; I've seen that eye glaze happen even if I try to go over it line by line. A fraudulent preparer could easily redirect those clients to the refund. People have also been trained by commercials by the storefronts and ads for 'the Box' just to focus on deductions and refund, not completeness and correctness. And I understand the 'eye glaze' thing because the same thing used to happen to me when confronted with a math problem...brain just shuts down. In fact it did yesterday when I was asked the simple question, what did you do today?