Hisham Ibrahim/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As the tax filing season began Monday, the IRS Criminal Investigation division urged taxpayers to protect themselves from scams. Some of those scams include questionable refund schemes, return preparer fraud, abusive tax schemes, according to the agency. "Tax crimes surge during filing season because criminals steal unknowing taxpayers' information, hack into the servers of CPA firms and tax preparation services and victimize unsuspecting taxpayers with the false promise of huge tax refunds," CI Chief Jim Lee said in a news release. IRS Crimin...