<prompt> Human: My father has has a history of alcohol and drug abuse and in my opinion, is mentally incapable of living on his own but does so anyway. He informed me the other day that the IRS contacted him and was asking him about my personal information, name, age, address, marital status and social security number. I asked my father to send me the letter they sent him but he claimed he had already lost it. Im concerned this was not the IRS that contacted him and is someone attempting to steal my identity. I cant imagine there would be a reason for the IRS to ask him for that information considering I have been filing my own taxes for 6 years now. Is there anyway I can contact the IRS and find out if a letter had been sent to him?  <response>: Bank teller here. This is most likely a scam and a newer one. Ive only come across it once so far. Did you father call the number in the letter and give them that info? If so you may want to put a credit freeze on your accounts with the credit bureaus. Let your dad know that he will most likely get other scam letters and possibly phone calls if he responded to this letter in anyway. Scammers love older people, especially ones that arent the most mentally competent. There is a very slim chance that they sent Letter 5071C which is a real letter instructing you to visit the IRS identity verification site, but they dont send those often. I wish he hadnt thrown the letter out. 