"Death and Taxes"

As every Security Professional knows, phishing is a problem. Let's first take a step back. Phishing is the act of sending an email or placing a phone where the attacker pretends to be a legitimate company to get your information. You generally see emails like "Your Ebay account has been disabled. Click here and enter your account info to reactivate".When you click on it, it takes you to the attacker's site and he/she has your account info.

Well, those dirty attackers are at it again. This time they are posing as the IRS. here is a sample of an email you may receive:

After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that
you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $268.32.
Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 3-6 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

© Copyright 2007, Internal Revenue Service U.S.A. All rights reserved.

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Turns out, when you click on that link. It takes you to a Russian site. Last time i checked the IRS didn't have a Russian Branch.

Click here for the article.