Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Fraudulent tax refund mails in circulation

......The fraud mail originates from the 'tax refund department', bears the address 'service@incometaxindia.in' and has a subject line which says 'tax refund notification alert'. The language and format of the mail is strikingly similar to any formal correspondence from the I-T department. It addresses the receiver of the mail as 'Dear valued taxpayer' and goes on to say that you are "qualified for a refund which could run into as much as Rs 50,000". The mail asks the reader to 'click' on the hyperlink to place a tax-refund request. The hyperlink opens to the homepage of the RBI, but the website address panel shows www.chatbordel.de. The page asks for bank name, ATM number, ATM PIN number, CVV number, card expiry date and transaction password.......

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