5 February 2012
The Tax Refund email scam
Yet another 'phishing' email scam is doing the rounds, once again it proports to be from the Inland Revenue Department, on this occasion we have heard from a number of clients who inadvertently clicked on the link in the email, they have been taken to a 'fill in your details' web page that looks very official.
The IRD are very clear about these scam emails, once again they would like to remind us that, "Inland Revenue will not send you a hyperlink in an email. Delete the email from your Inbox and Trash folders."
You can find more about 'phishing' and other scam emails at IRD here:
www.ird.govt.nz/about-this-site/privacy/privacy-phishing.html
The latest email is represented below. Despite the scammers efforts to make these emails as official looking and sounding as possible, there is inevitably something odd or curious regarding the language used in these emails; for example this particular email refers to the IRD as 'him' – "Inland Revenue updated his database system."
Dear Customer,
Dear sample@example.co.nz
You are receiving this e-mail with reference to our latest database update on February 5, 2012.
Due to our most up-to-date calculations, Inland Revenue updated his database system to a more accurate structure. As a result, you are eligible to get a refund of 186,14 $NZD.
Please download IR3-e-file_FORM-974561346 attached to this e-mail, complete the form with your personal information in less than 48 hours and allow up to 24 hours to update the data into our database.
Your records are securely encrypted through a secure 128 bit socket to our servers and will NOT be shared.
Reference number: 654896130384/2012nz.
E-mail officially sent to: sample@example.co.nz
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