I have an email from TurboTax regarding a W2 that needs attention from an organization I never worked for. What might cause this?

[rdwells]

The full subject line was "🔔Reminder: Your W-2 from KANSAS DEPT OF ADMIN needs attention". I'm quite sure this was NOT a phishing attempt. Any idea why this would happen? Should I be worried about identity theft, or someone else using my SSN?

[xmasbaby0]

You received an email from Marketing.  Marketing does not really know if there is a W-2 ready for you.   Ignore the email.    Your employer(s) have until January 31 to issue W-2's.  Wait for your employer to issue it.

[SteamTrain]

,,,AND, as to the email referring to an employer you never worked for?

Every year there are hundreds of similar post....for other things, where the email was intended for some other TTX customer.....The reason it went to the wrong person, was that the other customer accidentally entered their wrong email address...usually mis-typed somehow, added extra character, inverted some character, etc., to one that just happened to match yours.   So, it ended up going to you.  If you get mor crazy emails, could be the same reason, and that other person hasn't figured it out yet and corrected it...yet.

[rdwells]

Dang, I should have realized that was probably the case.  I got a gmail account during the first few weeks they were available, and my address is just my initials and last name, so a ton a people with my last name and the same two initials mistakenly use it.

Thanks for the quick response.