<A HREF="http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/02/wildfires.email/index.html">A new email scam is using last week's wildfires</A> in California to prey on people with generous hearts. The Internal Revenue Service is warning Americans about an email hoax that claims to be from the tax agency and asks for donations for wildfire victims.

Anyone who clicks on the donation link is taken to a fake Web site that asks for the person's bank account numbers. Instead of using the numbers for charity, the scammers can launch a number of identity theft ploys.