09/15/2026
Scammers are mailing physical letters in subtle, unmarked envelopes that look like they come from the IRS, telling crypto holders they must "enroll" in a so-called Digital Asset Compliance Portal (DACP) before a deadline. The letter includes a QR code that leads to a convincing fake IRS website.
This is a scam.
If you received this letter:
Do not scan the QR code
Do not enter any information
Do not call any phone numbers listed on the website
If someone calls claiming to be from the IRS, Coinbase, or a "compliance portal," hang up.
Below we will outline what the letter looks like, how the scam works step by step, and what to do if you received it.
What the letter looks like
Fake IRS Scam
The scam letter, mailed to a real home address and printed to look like an official IRS notice. Sensitive details have been redacted.
The letter is printed to imitate a real IRS notice. In the letter shown above, it is styled as coming from the Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, Austin, TX, with a notice number of CP14-432RA, a tax year range of 2017–2026, and a fake enrollment deadline designed to create urgency. These small details may be different, but the scam is the same.
Red flags in the letter
It claims you must "enroll" in a "Digital Asset Compliance Portal (DACP)." This program does not exist. The IRS has no digital-asset "enrollment portal," and it does not require you to register your exchanges or wallets.
The web address is not IRS.gov. The QR code led to a look-alike domain (of the form irs.digitalcomplianceportal[.]com) — not the real irs.gov.
Our partners at DarkTower traced the infrastructure behind this campaign: the look-alike domain was registered just days before the letters went out, through a Hong Kong registrar, and the site was hosted in Romania on a network already known for hosting FedEx and banking phishing pages. In other words: this is a professional, international fraud operation — not the IRS.
How the fake "portal" works, step by step
If you scan the QR code, you land on a page engineered to look exactly like a real government website — complete with an "official website of the United States government" banner and IRS-style branding.
