Avoid FBAR Filing Scam

To all the Americans in Japan — As most of you know, we need to file an FBAR with our taxes (if a foreign account is more than 10k usd during the year) – easy to do.

I forgot the government link and did a google search – this came first –

https://fbar.us/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22349416697&gbraid=0AAAAA-yTTHOz9vp9dWyY7DfTSczF8Ff5g&gclid=CjwKCAiAtLvMBhB_EiwA1u6_PjsQap3oAMehUZ3Kq9lg93oS_esmLpxpgyZ6jLODCKmu_s4a69g7GxoCgWUQAvD_BwE

It looks like a government site but then it'll ask for a payment at the end. This was a red flag as it's always been free.

Here is the gov't site – https://bsaefiling.fincen.gov/file/fbar

Sharing in case others need it.

To the non-American Japanese expats, enjoy not having your gov't keep tabs on you like a jealous ex.