You should never release your personal information, credit card or bank account information, or any other financial information over the phone to unknown callers.

I filed electronically on April 17. I had my refund in my bank account by April 20.

Your user ID, your password, if you're purchasing anything online, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, et cetera. All of that is being recorded and retrieved.

The first letter I received was that they froze my bank account, my checking account.

Even if you have that money stored in a regular bank account, you are going to be earning 1 percent or 2 percent interest on it. If it's a relatively substantial amount of money, you could earn a lot. But any amount of interest you could earn is better than none.

From May to November 2000 large amounts of money was paid into this Dresdner Bank account on a periodic basis,