Fake IRS Email Scam On The Rise
Tax season has come and so have the cyber crooks. IRS ploys are circulating, the latest one involving a legitimate looking email from the IRS that states that you can get your tax refund on a Visa or a Mastercard. It asks for your credit card number, your social security number, credit card expiration dates, card verification value numbers, amount shown on your tax return, filing status and other personal data.
A sample phishing email can be found on the IRS web site.
“After the last year’s calculations of your fiscal activity we’ve determined that you’re eligible to receive a tax refund of $78.87. Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 6-9 days to process it. Access the form for your tax refund by clicking here. – Regards, Internal Revenue Service.”
The IRS does not notify taxpayers of refunds, or any other payments that may be due, by email. Rather than click on the link in the message, you should forward the email to phishing@irs.gov, and erase the original from your email account.
IRS schemes work one of two ways: scammers send unsolicited e-mails that seem to come from the IRS and tell recipients that they have refunds that are due. But first they need to click on e-mail links and provide needed information, which they will use to steal a victims identity.
The second version is an email that pretends to be from the IRS Criminal Investigation Division telling the recipient that they are under investigation for false tax returns. To learn more about the complaints against them, consumers click on the links which hold Trojan horse codes.
These codes take over computer hard drives and allow con-men to remotely access the computers and use them to send spam email among other things. If you ever do receive unsolicited emails from the IRS, they urge you to forward them the email.
Mallory Megan is employed by a debt collection agency. Also she composes stories on business, finance, consumer spending and collection agencies. Grab a totally unique version of this article from the Uber Article Directory
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Posted: April 15th, 2010 under Business.
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