Got a $1,400 rebate text from the IRS? It's a scam, Better Business Bureau warns.

If you get a text with web links claiming you're due a $1,400 stimulus check from what looks to be the IRS, don't click on it. The text is most certainly a scam, as the federal agency doesn't send such messages. Yet criminals are impersonating the IRS to trick taxpayers into sharing personal information by texting them fake alerts of their eligibility for extra money, warns the Better Business Bureau.

The devious text has a truthful air, as it's connected to recent news. The IRS in late December said it was sending $2.4 million in total to 1 million people to cover those who didn't get all of their federal stimulus checks during the pandemic. 

But the payments — a maximum of $1,400 per recipient — are automatic and those getting them were sent a letter by the IRS, with most of the payments expected to have arrived by late January. The money involves taxpayers who did not claim the Recovery Rebate Credit on their 2021 tax returns, with no action required from them.