Phishers use IRS tax refund as bait

Posted by Vic Laurie
December 5, 2005

Another phishing scam that is catching the unwary pretends to be from the IRS. It is described in this ZDNet article:

A spam e-mail message has been sent around the world telling people they are eligible for a $571.94 tax refund from the IRS. The e-mail offers a link to a fraudulent IRS Web site, but the link actually goes through a legitimate government Web site that only last month was promoted by President Bush.

Email, Internet topics, Security

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