Hi Everyone. Well, after 15 years the RV-Dreams Community Forum is coming to an end. Since it began in August 2005, we've had 58 Million page views, 124,000 posts, and we've spent about $15,000 to keep this valuable resource for RVers free and open. But since we are now off the road and have settled down for the next chapter of our lives, we are taking the Forum down effective June 30, 2021. It has been a tough decision, but it is now time.
We want to thank all of our members for their participation and input over the years, and we want to especially thank those that have acted as Moderators for us during our amazing journey living and traveling in our RV and growing the RV-Dreams Family. We will be forever proud to have been founders of this Forum and to have been supported by such a wonderful community. Thank you all!!
I recently received a letter from the IRS that they could not process my return until I either went online or called them and completed an identity verification process. We tried online first, but didn't have enough information on hand to answer all the questions (who we sold our first house to in 1999 for example) so I called. The woman was pleasant but it took awhile and not all the questions (by design) were in the tax info I had. When we finished and I asked why it is because of a series of data breaches and a rash of fraudulent returns coming out of Florida in particular. I got flagged because of the amount of the return and the fact I moved my address to Florida. I am sure having a mailing service address did not help, but this was not specifically stated as a reason. I just wanted to mention it, because it was a little unsettling. Anyone else?
We had to do this for my 19 year old son last year too. Part of it was his fault - he was writing his social security number wrong and it was that way on one of his w-2s. The fact that he also had a mailing address in Colorado which is a PO Box (ours as where we live doesn't get home mail delivery) and also a PO Box in Texas (for the college campus he was at). I think it is a system that issues some red flags based on various factors and they just have to go through the process of verifying.
