Phucking Phishers!
I hate People!!! That has been my motto for years now, and today, I was reminded why…
Anyway, I got a fishy email today. It said it was from Internal Revenue Service and the inside said this:
After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that
you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $375.20.
Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 3-9 days in order to
process it.
A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons.
For example submitting invalid records or applying after the deadline.
To access the form for your tax refund, please click here
Note: For security reasons, we will record your ip-address, the date and time.
Deliberate wrong inputs are criminally pursued and indicated.
Regards,
Internal Revenue Service
I clicked the link to see what this was all about, and it took me to a very official looking page with a link on it that said it was the online form, and I should be prepared to enter a number of a *debit card* to which they could send the refund.
I checked on Snopes, and sure enough: http://www.snopes.com/fraud/phishing/irs2007.asp
If you get an email like this, please forward it to Phishing@irs.gov I’d hate for any of you to get ripped off.
Love, Krystal
Funny, I just saw the news video on CNN about fake IRS scams.
[url=http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/01/29/moore.mo.tax.rebate.scam.kmbc]http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/01/29/moore.mo.tax.rebate.scam.kmbc[/url]
Secondly, if you were using Firefox, it’s smart enough to know where the very bad web sites are.
Thirdly, the government can’t do anything after the fact that you got spammed/phished. Don’t waste your time FWD’ing anything.