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This is very strange that no address of IRS on the cover page.  Asking Bank name, account number and copy of passport.  Does IRS ask these? I don't think so.

This is the fax number of so-called "Department of the Treasury" of IRS.

Got the same fax. US folks in Japan should maybe alert the Embassy as it looks like a sure fraud scheme.

Got the same fax too in Japan. Thank you and this website.

Got the same fax here too!  Does look awfully strange.  The form is different from the W-8BEN forms I've filled out in the past.  And we've never been asked by IRS directly to complete a W-8BEN form...