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The point is, all those emails will be in one spot, and not your regular business account. You are still gonna get them, but it is like setting up a Junk Email account for them to go to. Tom Modesto, CA

Jack, The point is, the IRS publishes all of the PTIN numbers and email addresses of all practitioners. From that list is where all these scammers and CE companies are getting our email to try to defraud us or to get us to buy something. So the IRS is suggesting you get an email account that they will publish that you can put all that crap into, but you have to check it because the IRS will use it to remind you about your PTIN renewal. Tom Modesto, CA

I received mine today. I do believe it is legit as it is not asking us to click on any link just reminding us that we need an active email but doesn't have to be a company email.

Received the email so I thought I'd renew - my password isn't working and when I requested a new one - I'm not getting an email with it. Every freakin year I have a problem somehow with the IRS website and my log in.

It is very unlikely that we will ever know those details ! Equifax doesn't appear to be the kind of stand up organization with a high level of integrity that would provide those details. I predict that they will stall and try to run out the clock with assumption that this will all blow over. Anyone who thinks that they will receive some measure of accountability out of this mess will likely be very disappointed ! Don't forget that this industry is basically unregulated !!!

Our IRS liaison suggested we get an email account that will only be used for IRS (e.g., a gmail acct, or if your email provider lets you register more than one set it up). He showed a random page from the freely available IRS data base and I knew about five people on it; their email addresses were all there. The separate account will hopefully keep your real acct free of the urgent emails from potential "clients" who somehow picked you sight unseen and are sending a link to their tax docs, the incessant offers for CE courses, the barrage that comes from PTIN.org, and the phishing attempts that look like they're from irs.gov. I hadn't gotten around to setting up a separate account so I appreciate the IRS reminding us of the opportunity to change our address at PTIN renewal time.

cbslee, I like your title "Too Big to Fail". From my point of view, "Too Big to Fail" should be synonymous with "Too Big to Exist."

I miss the banter we had with William. He helped us more than support did.