If you thought opening mail during tax season was stressful, imagine receiving a tax form for a job you never worked. That is exactly what's happening to many Americans across the country, who say they've been sent IRS Form 1099s from Uber reporting thousands of dollars in income they never earned, according to a CBS News investigation (1).

Taxpayers lost an estimated $23 billion to stolen tax returns last year, affecting approximately 2. 4 million people, according to a report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.